DETROIT — Lily Tomlin's not one for football.
"I'm not terribly involved in sports," says the legendary actress and comedian, who was born and raised in Detroit, of her interest in Sunday gridiron showdowns. "The other girls will say, 'Oh yeah, I'm a big sports fan! And how about that when so-and-so did such-and-such?' and all that. Like someone was saying when (Tom) Brady lost the last Bucs game, 'The defense was not helping him.' Well, I might not make that conclusion."
Tomlin "took a look" at that game but didn't find herself mentally or emotionally engaged in the on-field action. "Whatever it is that makes me interested in stuff, I just don't relate to it in the way the person that is inclined that way relates to it," says the Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner and Oscar nominee. "I see a football game on television, I don't think, 'Oh my god, who's playing? Who's playing? Oh there's No. 14, oh my god, there's No. 3!' I don't know that. I haven't tried to learn."
