Jon Pardi: 'I Looked Up To The 49ers'

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Jon Pardi is a California boy who is excited about his favorite football team the San Fransisco 49ers will be in the Super Bowl this weekend.

Jon told us of being at the championship game a few weeks back, “It was really cool to go on the football field when you’ve got everybody from the head guy of the NFL and you’ve got Jerry Rice out there running around. It was really cool, and then we got to go watch the game in a really nice suite... and thank you 49ers — they were awesome."

He continued, "I grew up playing football and it was always the 49ers, you know? We looked up to those guys. I looked up to the 49ers. It was like our local team, and I guess I just never lost that spark from when they went to the Super Bowl."

"I think the game’s going to be great. The Chiefs are tough, so this is gonna be an all-out war of football (laughs) which is gonna be a great Super Bowl, and we’re gonna get a great Super Bowl from two great teams.”

Jon posted to Instagram after the championship game last week, "Heading into the super bowl @49ers."

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