25 things you must know about Philly’s cutest quarterback!

“It’s not about me. ... It’s about the Eagles and Philly,” Nick Foles said back in July, explaining why he didn’t talk to writer Buzz Bissinger for Philadelphia magazine’s cover profile on our new franchise quarterback.

Bissinger reacted by calling him “chickenshit.”

Foles wouldn’t do a one-on-one interview with us, either. But we were neither surprised nor offended. Celebrities of the non-threateningly cute, teen magazine variety are supposed to play hard to get. It just makes them all the more appealing. And Foles is the closest thing to a teen idol this city has seen since Dick Clark hosted American Bandstand in West Philly.

That’s why football season is also the time to channel your best pre-pubescent co-ed and devour — squealing — every one of the following 25 off-the-field facts we were able to scrape up about Philly’s most crush-worthy quarterback (unless Foles continues with the turnovers and missed throws and we all start falling for the Valentino-esque Mark Sanchez).

1.   Nick was almost literally born with a football in his hands. A picture of a 2-day-old Nick holding a football pretty much the same way he does today still drifts around the depths of the Internet.

2.   He’s big into family. A tattoo on the inside of his biceps actually spells out that word in Chinese characters!

3.   Though you can’t hear it in his voice, this born-and-bred Texan has local roots. Nick’s family on his mother’s side “a long time ago settled in Philadelphia,” he once revealed.

4.   His parents, who “didn’t have anything when they grew up,” are his heroes. His mom lost her mom at age 11 and his dad had to drop out of high school to support his siblings when his parents divorced (but nevertheless ended up a multimillionaire restaurateur).

5.   As a result of number 4, Nick is the Richie Rich of the NFL.

6.   Whether he needs it or not, Nick’s salary this season is $615,000. That’s $215,000 more than President Obama and about $3.5 million less than the man he replaced, Michael Vick, is being paid by the Jets.

7.   Nick answered the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” with “professional athlete” ... when he was in kindergarten!

8.   Nick once said he could have been a character in Friday Night Lights, a TV show about a fictional Texas high school football team inspired by a book written by none other than Foles’ would-be Philadelphia magazine profiler, Buzz Bissinger. (That show even filmed some episodes at the stadium where Nick used to play!)

9.   Nick was also an excellent basketball player in high school, and if he had grown the 2 more inches he thought he needed to go that route, he might now be playing for the Sixers.

10.   Nick studied Latin in high school (and could very well be the only NFL athleta in historia to do so).

11.   Nick’s wife, Tori, was the first person he encountered upon arriving at the University of Arizona. He passed her in the hall on his way to his sports physical and took note of her hotness, but did not attempt a pass. LOL! (They were in the same group of friends in college, but only started dating after graduation.)

12.   Tori Foles’ brother, Evan Moore, was once an Eagles tight end. (So it’s not like she didn’t know what she was getting into when they hooked up!)

13.   His mom and his wife can both whup him. Tori was a volleyball player in college and, Nick confesses, “can kick my butt” in the running, sprints, striders and swimming they sometimes do after Eagles practices. His mother, Melissa, conducts a workout class in her native Austin, Texas, that includes yoga, weight training, cardio, kickboxing and “screaming, music.” Nick says he’s “seen … full-grown men who work out all the time go into that class and leave throwing up.” (Nick held on to his breakfast but shares that he was “humble[d].”)

14.   He’s an animal lover and owner of cat Tigger and dogs Wrigley, Bella and Harmony.

15.   Technologically speaking, Nick is an “early adopter.” He was one of the first on his college team with an iPhone 4, had a smartwatch before they were even an apple in Apple’s eye and has tweeted positively about Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 and the Uber on-demand ride service (although his enthusiasm for those last two things could be for money as much as love).

16.   Nick’s favorite book is the tweenage hound dog weeper Where the Red Fern Grows. His favorite movies are the animated Scooby Doo and The Lion King. His favorite TV shows are police procedurals NCIS and CSI (and surprisingly not Arrested Development, given his other picks — LOL!).

17.   The actor most likely to play Nick in the biopic that will be made about him if he ever starts playing the way he did at the end of 2013: Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder. (Nick is frequently mistaken for that geeky high schooler!)

18.   Nick’s a homebody, preferring making dinner at home with Tori to going out on the town. His idea of a wild night is playing card games Palace and Speed. (See sidebar.)

19.   His favorite meal growing up was fried catfish with Southwestern tartar sauce (mayo with cilantro, lime and hot peppers instead of relish, onion and lemon) and ketchup. His favorite dishes to make with Tori include pasta with sausage and veggies, chicken, steak and taco salad (see previous page). (He swears off cheesesteaks during the season, he shared with City Paper.)

20.   Nick drives a white 2014 Sierra Denali truck or, at least, he won one for being offensive MVP in the 2014 Pro Bowl. (We would have traded it in for a Fiat 500 rather than try to parallel-park that monster in South Philly.)

21.   He has negative fashion sense, preferring flip-flops and team-issued T-shirts to Hugo Boss (the HB exec who signed him on for promotional work is apparently suffering from delusions of Henry Higgins).

22.   Nick is a devout Christian who wears a gold crucifix and a WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelet, reads the Bible before every game and tweets Bible verses. On Jan. 25, it was Matthew 19:26  — “With God, all things are possible.” But we think Isaiah 40:31 —  “Those who wait on the Lord ... shall mount up with wings like Eagles” — is even more apt.

23.   No. 9 is nice to the point of blandness, to give one example, recently declining a request from CP to name any of his favorite Philly restaurants for fear of  “hurting the feelings” of anyone at any place he didn’t mention.

24.   He visits sick kids in the hospital and yet still got booed by Eagles fans after leading a scoreless first half in the season opener against Jacksonville (but hey, they also booed Santa!).

25.   Nick has talked about getting into the restaurant business post-NFL. And who can blame him, considering numbers 4, 5 and 24?