Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck says new quarterback Max Brosmer has a “football aura about him.”

Brosmer also can carry a tune.

The transfer from the University of New Hampshire and Roswell, Ga., native has written and recorded a pop country song titled “Old Jack Daniels.” It’s available on streaming platforms and on YouTube.

“I’ve been sitting behind bars for the past two weeks and all I think about is that amber sweet, old Jack Daniels, you make me complete,” Brosmer sings. And the chorus: “Old No. 7 comin’ straight from the heaven.”

Was Brosmer onto something? His tune is reminiscent of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song,” but Brosmer’s song dropped about a year earlier, in March 2023.

Brosmer has been paying guitar for a dozen years, and music runs in his family, though not from his father. “I wish I could play guitar,” Colin Brosmer lamented.

Max’s grandparents are musically inclined, and Max’s younger brother, Fish, is a trumpet performance major at Georgia State. He, too, can be found on YouTube.

Brosmer doesn’t consider himself to be a full-on musician, but during the pandemic, he decided to write a song based off a poster hanging up in his college house at New Hampshire.

“Shoot, I just got bored and wrote a song, and I’m like, ‘This is kind of good,’ ” Brosmer told 247Sports. “… I held onto it for a couple of years and I finally had a couple of weeks where I could do something with it, and I went to a recording studio at UNH. I’m gonna put it on platforms because it’s kind of cool to have your own song on Apple Music or Spotify.”

Once he got to Minnesota, Brosmer happened to tell a couple pf teammates about the single. He then heard it playing in the locker room; some teammates were even singing along.

Brosmer, who has an undergraduate degree in biomedical science and is working on masters in kinesiology, has a main focus this fall on making a big jump from the FCS-level to major college football with the Gophers. The sixth-year player will attempt to land the leap in the Gophers’ season opener against North Carolina on Thursday at Huntington Bank Stadium.

While his August was consumed by getting up to speed on the field in preseason camp, he now has a little bit more time to sit back, pop in some of his favorite candy (gummy bears) and strum his guitar.

“I haven’t been able to play a ton, but now, since fall camp is over, I might have a free 30 minutes or an hour when I go home now,” Brosmer said last week. “… It’s a way to kind of get away from football and try to focus my energy somewhere else, just for a second. I think that’s really healthy for anybody.”

And who knows, maybe when Brosmer throws touchdown passes this fall, fans might toast him with some Old Jack Daniels.

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