Harry Styles loves the Green Bay Packers.
The English musician and former One Direction has shown his fandom over the years in so many ways, including wearing a cheesehead and carrying a Packers flag over his shoulder while performing in Milwaukee in 2015. He also has a small tattoo of the team’s “G” logo on the inside of his arm just above his elbow.
So recently during an interview with NPR — which also followed a famous Tiny Desk concert — Styles spoke about his love for the Packers and how it originated.
“When I was about six years old, I fell off my bike, and I cut my knee,” he said, jokingly explaining his fandom to NPR’s Stephen Thompson while they both wore Green Bay jerseys. “And I bled green and gold, and that was it.”
Loved @Harry_Styles on how he became a Packers fan. (Also, he knows someone from Appleton? See you at Cleos next time you're in town, Harry….) pic.twitter.com/Vl3EZvndXm
— Aaron Nagler (@AaronNagler) March 13, 2020
But really, he said a friend from Wisconsin introduced him to the NFL, and the Packers’ games were the first ones he watched. And then when he’d play Madden, he’d always be Green Bay.
Styles also shared the funny story for how that tattoo came to be. He explained that before he and (we assume) some friends were going to watch a Packers game, he made a wager:
“We said, ‘If they win the game, then I’ll get a Packers tattoo. And if they don’t, I won’t.’ So, I think this was maybe 2012, maybe 2013, and I only had time the day before to go and get the tattoo. So I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll just get it because they’re going to win.’ So I got the tattoo, and then they lost. So yeah, now I have a Green Bay Packers tattoo.”
He noted that the tattoo is black and white, so it looks like the University of Georgia’s logo (although he misspoke and said Georgia State).
Other reasons why he loves the Packers? He said because the team is owned by the fans and “also a big fan of cheese, so yeah, Packers were the team for me.”
You can watch more from Styles’ interview with NPR about the Packers here:
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