NEW COLLEGE GAMEDAY SONG TO BE LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, LITTLE BIT OH GOD KILL ME
Kenny Chesney, your midget ass. Our troupe of unstoppable pit bulls. A dark plain in West Texas borded by a river, and us in a monster truck with hunting lights and a shotgun. Let’s roll, shorty.
Award-winning country music star Kenny Chesney, known for his high-energy stadium concerts, has written a song exclusively for ESPN’s college football game and studio telecasts during Dick’s Sporting Goods Kickoff Week (Sept. 3-7) and Championship Saturday (Dec. 5) as well as select contests throughout the season and bowl games. ESPN will have the exclusive premiere of the song during its pregame show Thursday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m.
Needs editing. One moment please. [Sound of screaming, fire, steel clanging, tendons ripping.] Okay, here you go.
Shitty, meaningless Award-winning country music star prize dwarf Kenny Chesney, known for his high-energy stadium concerts lackadaisically humping the dead carcass of a long-dead musical genre pandering to humanity’s most fatuous and ignoble traits, has written a song misbegotten flaming abortion of ass-cramping tripe exclusively for ESPN’s college football game and studio telecasts during Dick’s Sporting Goods Overpriced Jockstrap Hut Kickoff Week (Sept. 3-7) and Championship Saturday (Dec. 5) as well as select cursed contests throughout the season and bowl games. ESPN will have the exclusive premiere public excretion of the song during its pregame show Thursday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. a date that shall live in infamy as the day suck conquered the universe.
What the hell is wrong with this?
Just play that, show some people hollering, a few shots of people getting knocked the fuck out, and then Fowler/Lieutenant Beautifulpants/Corso. There! There’s your new intro, not this crapulent piece of faux-cornpone pablum the marketing people pulled from America’s Milquetoast Mecca, Nashville, the home of country music that can go fuck itself in the ear with a wolverine.
She thinks your tractor’s sexy? Bullshit. You drive a fucking Honda Odyssey to work, Sonic, Bass Pro Shops, and that’s about it. God, please: if you exist, send 1988 Steve Earle forward in time to us. We will give him a flamethrower and a suitcase filled with blacktar heroin to burn country music to the ground and make people start writing honest songs about running from the cops, drinking yourself blind, and resigning yourself to your own doomed bastardhood before a premature and giddy death.
To Sam the Eagle, the commenter who will say, “Now, now, pish-posh, this is really all too much–” That dash is you being obliterated by our army of pitbulls. Do you have any idea how many times we are going to listen to this bullshit this fall, and the next, and the next? If Kenny Chesney loved college football at this point, he would go get arrested for a crime of moral turpitude and force DisneySPN to hang back with the old standard, “We’re Coming To Your Citaaaayyyyyyy,” known in our household as “The Song That Makes Daddy Fart Pure Flames Of Rage.” That’s how far you’ve beaten us down, Bristol: we’re rooting for the return of Big and Rich, who have spent years perpetually promising to come to your city without either fulfilling the promise and allowing us to ax a little ax-dang in their chest-tang, or put a little cyanide-tink in their drink-ink.









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westbrooke says:
I like how we’re now making up numbers when we assign cocktails. It was the only logical next step.
Also, this: “America’s Milquetoast Mecca, Nashville, the home of country music that can go fuck itself in the ear with a wolverine. ” The best and most accurate description of Nashville I’ve ever witnessed.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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Coop says:
First, we all need to remember that Kenny Chesney and Peyton Manning are basically best friends. I really cannot reinterate that last sentence enough.
Second, someone who owns some stock in Disney should fire up the old derivative suit. ESPN is wasting money by paying Chesney when they already own the rights to a perfectly good song and, if anything, Chesney is going to make people turn their channels, if only temporarily.
As always, someone in Bristol is trying to ruin something that everyone loves, or likes well enough.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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Bamaman says:
If you’ve got to have an intro song, I’m thinking DRIVE BY TRUCKERS!!!
I want angry guitar riffs and lyrics about beating my kids when my school loses or crying cause my team’s the only reason left I have to wake up in the morning. That’s what football is about as far as I’m concerned.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
54
The Subway Domer says:
What the fuck. Wasn’t Slayer or Wu-Tang available.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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haveagreatday says:
Orson is really at his best when his indignant gland is all flared up.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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beattherush says:
Hey, it’s better than Big and Rich
August 27th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
57
OnTap says:
Orson…that’s your favorite scene in that movie? How very…….Michael Vick ….of you!
August 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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Will Q says:
@52
Maybe he used to be, but it’s Timmy that’s dancing on stage with him nowadays.
Country music hasn’t been country music since I don’t know when. Kenny Chesney and his ilk do indeed suck.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
We could prefer the other scenes where people are getting killed, we suppose.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
60
Bourbon Dawgwalker says:
I miss Bubba Sparxxx.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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Bandobras says:
@8:
Here’s a taste of how awesome the intro used to be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJAChNn9RY
August 27th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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EastHoustonPondwater says:
Oh Steve Earle, every year you get grumpier and uglier but that’s cool because you still know a thousand more things about country music than all of the Nashville corporate monkeys combined.
I guess the only thing worse would be one of the whores who record that soulless crap – but enough about Mr. Chesney.
At least when Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil; he got a well tuned guitar. Today’s pop-country stars get what they deserve; a system that grinds them into hamburger!
p.s.
Drive By Truckers Rule!
I’m 50 years old and I approve of my message!
August 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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Vandy J says:
SIR – I object to your characterization of Nashville as “America’s Milquetoast Mecca, Nashville, the home of country music that can go fuck itself in the ear with a wolverine.” Everyone knows that the Wolverine is not indigenous to Tennessee and has indeed wreaked havoc on the local ecosystem (cf. Vanderbilt vs Michigan, 1922) when it does appear.
You would be more accurate to characterize Nashville as “America’s Home for Trailer Park Proctology and White Rain Suffocation Poisioning, brought to you by Paula Deen, Jimmy Dean and Jim Beam, With Soundtrack By A Bunch Of Painted Whores Who Couldn’t Carry Tammy Wynette’s Girdle (RIP cuz, will mourn you til we join you).”
Also, everyone on 440 drives like shit. Yes, you too.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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Meg says:
Why can’t it be “if the House is a-rockin’ “? Or “Whiskey-bent and Hell-bound”? So many damn good choice out there.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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pfhokie abides says:
I would give $1.76 to hear Kenny Chesney or Mike Gundy sing “Enter Sandman”.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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Bear Bryant's Corpse says:
My wife liked the intro song where they were on slip and slides. “We’re so happy here,” or something.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
This has to be part of ESPN’s new deal with the SEC, whose new slogan must be: “The Esss Eeee Ceee: Speed at Every Position, But Crappy Musical Taste.”
I agree with several other posters: If we’re going to be forced to listen to something country-fied all season long, couldn’t they have chosen the DBTs or Lucero?
Even better than the traditional theme Orson embedded, does anyone remember the original ESPN2 college football theme from the mid-90s? Now, that, my friends, was a fall Saturday morning personified in bumper music form…
August 28th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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Lawrence says:
Yeah, all of this Chesney talk obscures one good thing about the change: No more Cowboy Troy. Cowboy Troy makes Wayne Brady seem like Rick Ross.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:56 am
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Grampaw Fug says:
Order a twelve pack of those ear wolverines for the focus group that gave a thumbs up to this Chesney pablum dreck placenta. And a dozen more for the horses they rode in on.
Bring It On Home from LZII always works for me, with the heavy guitar riff kicking in at about the 5/6 mark on the upward curving buzz ascendancy line. Or the old theme.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:31 am
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WarChiziken says:
I would like to go ahead and give Ozzy Osborne the nod to make a song for Gameday…. lord knows that maniacal laugh from crazy train is on the sound track in my head when my team knocks the stink out of a rival
haahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaa
August 28th, 2009 at 8:11 am
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
Please do not falsely characterize Chesney as “country” music. Dale Watson might show up and beat your ass.
“WHO THE HELL THEY THINK WE AM?”
August 28th, 2009 at 11:51 am
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JimmyJ says:
Dear Editor:
Your work here is fine. But leave my public-restroom hand dryer alone!
August 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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NeverSawMollyHatchet says:
@53 Bamaman – Amen on DBT. They would kick the shit out of an opening song. I’m hoping that Chesney will be the next man(?) that Patterson shoots.
(Now I’m praying that someone will put together some highlights using Lookout Mountain.)
August 28th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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Chg says:
At least it won’t be the junk linked by #61.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
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Justin says:
It was 10:00am and I was all ready to sit down and kick off the 09′ College Football season when… what the!!!! No really, where is my song? This Kenny Chesney song is weak and makes you want to sleep, not jump and cheer for your team. Kenny doing a Karate Kid impression and talking about someone’s moment… Get real
I like Kenny but this song has to go!
Justin
September 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pm