The Patriots will be flatter than a johnny cake once the Giants are done with ’em, this fan predicts. Joseph Gannascoli is best known as closeted gangster Vito Spatafore on “The Sopranos,” but the Brooklyn-born actor’s true-blue Giants obsession is obvious from every memorabilia-covered inch of his East Rockaway, LI, home.
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The actor – whose Soprano character famously romanced short-order cook Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski – even hangs Tom Brady in effigy from the roof.
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“I’m a degenerate Giants fan,” Gannascoli, 52, told The Post as he sat in a TV room plastered with Post front pages celebrating the team’s magical run to Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
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“I’m literally obsessed with them. If they lose, I can’t sleep for a couple of days.” Gannascoli isn’t getting much sleep anyway as he prepares to continue his tradition of hosting huge Big Blue parties that can close down the entire street.
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Even Gannascoli’s dog, a Maltese named Lola Teresa – “As in LT [Lawrence Taylor],” he says proudly – is going blue for the Big Game. The superstitious former chef from Bay Ridge is painting her fur blue with food dye after it worked so well during the Giants’ Super Bowl run four years ago.
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“He cries when they lose and cries when they win,” said Diana Gannascoli, his wife of six years. “He’s completely obsessed with the Giants and golf, but especially the Giants. I think he cares about the Giants more than he does acting.”
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The only part of his wife’s description Gannascoli disputed was the alleged river of tears after a Giants win. “I don’t cry ‘boo-hoo’ when they win – I just get a tear in the corner of my eye,” he said. Joe Gannascoli, who starred in “The Sopranos,” has his house all decked out in Big Blue – with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hanging in effigy.
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