{"id":56863,"date":"2025-05-17T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/56863\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:42:11","slug":"cardinals-mack-wilson-sr-says-hed-pick-super-bowl-over-grammy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/56863\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Mack Wilson Sr. Says He&#8217;d Pick Super Bowl Over Grammy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Cardinals Mack Wilson<br \/>\n                          Between A Grammy Or Super Bowl?!<br \/>\n                          I&#8217;m Obviously Picking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published May 17, 2025 12:10 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b01a9b0a34cb424a96b84ebcf050a288_md.jpg\" alt=\"051525_Mack_Wilson_Sr_KAL\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mack Wilson Sr.&#8217;s music has taken the internet by storm after his team, the Arizona Cardinals, tapped the part-time rapper to create a song announcing the squad&#8217;s 2025 schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Rocketship, Mack&#8217;s stage name, has become a hit online &#8212; and with his <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/18-bars-feat-tye-beats-ep\/1814154884\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/18-bars-feat-tye-beats-ep\/1814154884\">full EP dropping Friday<\/a> &#8212; TMZ Sports asked the 27-year-old linebacker a critical question &#8230; Super Bowl or Grammy?!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Super Bowl, bro,&#8221; Wilson Sr. said without an inkling of hesitation.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care for a Grammy. I&#8217;m not that big into music, like I&#8217;d rather win a Super Bowl. I love rapping as well, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but it doesn&#8217;t take away from the passion I have for the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wondering what the hype about? Come around and find out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWbYHYdKsx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gWbYHYdKsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/1922804169309638687?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 15, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZCardinals\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@AZCardinals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you paid attention to the NFL&#8217;s schedule release, you&#8217;ve probably heard &#8220;18 Bars&#8221; &#8230; which has become an overnight hit.<\/p>\n<p>We asked the Cardinals&#8217; LB for his response to all the love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just to see all the reactions across the league and across the world, that&#8217;s been pretty cool, honestly,&#8221; Wilson told us. &#8220;To be able to put that together, you know, be able to be the first team to put a song out on Apple Music and Spotify in the league is pretty cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250516_56c21ffb5a654802a08912d15ae0c96b\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:633e8f6a-eccc-4c2b-bb0c-a13040c56830\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/56c21ffb5a654802a08912d15ae0c96b_md.jpg\" alt=\"mack wilson sr arizona cardinals\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t obvious from the Super Bowl over Grammy answer, Mack&#8217;s uber-focused on football &#8230; and music is more of a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kind of just rap just to enjoy it, and just to be able to hear my own music and send it to my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/c0266f4354a74a22985f701523c1f5d9_md.jpg\" alt=\"051525_Mack_Wilson_Sr_Offseason_talk_KAL\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZSports.com<\/p>\n<p>We also asked Mack, coming off a 75 (combined) tackles, three sacks, and one interception, about the organization&#8217;s off-season &#8230; as they look to improve on last year&#8217;s 8-9 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like we have no ceiling,&#8221; Wilson Sr. said. &#8220;We got all the pieces, we know that. We just gotta build that camaraderie, build that foundation, and kind of just go from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinals Mack Wilson Between A Grammy Or Super Bowl?! 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