FOXBOROUGH — Though Chase Winovich is currently sporting some scraggly blond facial hair, his real passion lies with milk mustaches.
The Patriots linebacker’s Twitter account has become milk-centric, and he explained his newfound dairy advocacy at length in a Tuesday afternoon video conference.
“I feel like there’s a subtle war against milk,” Winovich said. “I obviously enjoy milk. I think dairy farmers do excellent work around this country. We need to appreciate them and the beautiful cows that are also milked and produce this delicious milk.”
So where does the milk-crusading stem from? Is he from a family of dairy farmers? Does he simply just love milk?
“I have a YouTube channel called ‘Wino On A Quest” and we actually went to Vermont, it’s called Liberty Hill Farms,” Winovich explained. “There’s an Airbnb, not sure how it operates with COVID and stuff. But I got the opportunity to meet all the cows and actually milk some. It’s a super-dramatic story.
“It was an awesome time. I really just fell in love with the process. Already had a love for milk. I’ve been tweeting about milk for years. I think I tweeted ‘Nothing like the feeling of milk running through your mustache’ a couple years ago... As well as that, my cousin also is a dairy farmer in the Pittsburgh region, Lancaster County, Amish country. I know that’s a lot of answer.”
When some Patriots teammates opted out of the 2020 season, Winovich decided to raise a glass... of milk.
However, Tuesday’s conference call ended before Winovich was asked about his staunch anti-almond milk stance.
Dairy diaries aside, Winovich also provided an interesting answer on growing into a leadership role as a second-year player on a young defense.
”For me - this is a more complicated answer, I suppose - but going back to my time, at Michigan I’d say I was always kind of afraid of being a hypocrite, so I made sure that before I would say anything, I made sure that was secure,” Winovich said. “Now it’s like - being into my second year, there’s certain people that I feel like I can really influence with words and just little tidbits. Being at the pro level, there’s a lot of little - they call them ‘vet tricks,’ and technique changes that can kind of really help you adjust, because some people didn’t play special teams in college, so I had to kind of re-learn that. And there’s certain things that helped me there that I’m definitely trying to pass on.
“But really, there’s a lot of knowledge and a lot of leadership, I’d say, just across the board. A lot of guys love football. And drinking milk.”
Winovich was clearly a (milk)man on a mission.
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