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.
1
Crabapple Buck says:
Thank God for TiVo/DVR and a mute button.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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TheDeuce69 says:
This song is going to be the biggest sucking suck that ever sucked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiUrh_aR64
August 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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Kevin@LSU says:
Now, I do like some country music however, Kenney Chesney is not on that list.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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TheDeuce69 says:
Nothing will supplant this theme…it still gets me jacked! Man this is going to be the longest 9 days of my f’n life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_q4fO7DsIc
August 27th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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OldSouth says:
Popular country music facilitates singing and ebullience amongst the ladies present, which, when combined with the alcohol necessary for, you know, singing along to country, makes the ladies more willing.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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jakldawg says:
Can it really be worse than that godawful Daughtry crap that some random Dave was always promoting when the JP/Lincoln/Raycom (okay, fine…MSU) game would come back from commercial.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
I vote for the K-State Power Towel Anthem, complete with half human ,half cat looking of OMG SUPRISE!! guitar player.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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robert says:
The only halfway decent College Gameday theme that I can remember is the one by Bubba Sparkxxx from a couple years back. And that was only halfway decent.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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eer in the ATL says:
God I fucking hate Kenny Chesney. Every time I see that midget, he’s on a beach wearing cut-off jeans and freakin’t cowboy hat. A complete douche.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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TheDeuce69 says:
Three fourths of this is inaccurate. It’s fiction. And this article embarrasses me to be involved with country music. Tremendously. And that song had to have been written by a person who didn’t like Kenny Chesney. And has never been a Kenny Chesney concert that had their HEART BROKEN and come home upset. And had to deal with that child when he is upset. And kick a person when he’s down! Here’s all that Kenny Chesney did. He goes to the recording studio. He’s respectful to the media. He’s respectful to the PUBLIC. And he’s a good singer, he’s not a great singer, and he doesn’t deserve to be kicked when he’s down. If you listen to Kenny Chesney someday, you’ll understand how it feels. But you obviously don’t listen to Kenny Chesney. I do. If Kenny Chesney goes down the street, and someone makes fun of him because he dropped a note in a sing-off, or SAYS HE’S SHORT, and he comes home crying to his mom, you’d understand. But you haven’t had that. But someday you will. And when your child comes home, you’ll understand. If you want to go at a country singer, ONE OF MY SINGERS, you go after one that doesn’t do the right things. You don’t downgrade him because he does everything right and may not sing as well on Saturday. And you let us make that decision. That’s why I don’t read the newspaper. BECAUSE IT’S GARBAGE. And the editor that let it come out IS GARBAGE. Attacking a country singer for doing everything right. And then you want to write articles about guys that don’t do things right, and downgrade those who do make plays. Are you kidding me? Where are we at in society? COME AFTER ME! I’M A MAN! I’M FORTY! I’M NOT A KID. RIGHT SOMETHING ABOUT ME or our singers. Don’t right it about a kid that does everything right. His heart is broken. And then say that the coaches said he was scared. THAT AIN’T TRUE. And then to say that we made that decision because Rene Zellwinger was. Because she threatened to divorce. THAT’S NOT TRUE. So get your facts straight. And I hope someday you have a child and someone downgrades him or belittles him, and you have to look him in the eye and say you know what? It’s okay. They’re suppose to be mature adults but they really aren’t. Who’s the kid. Who’s the kid here. Are you kidding me? That’s all I got to say. Makes me wanna puke!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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Gamecock'n'Balls says:
“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.”
7 billion cocktails. YesyesyeysyesyesyesyesYES
August 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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kizzak says:
I hope to god that’s a brilliant troll
August 27th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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rjsplow says:
THAT AIN’T TRUEH!!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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AParker says:
@10 one jillibillionty cocktails to you
August 27th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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Raider Red says:
That had to have taken half an hour to write.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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Signal to Noise says:
Because nothing says “fired up for game day” than a wanna-be Jimmy Buffett.
Why does Bristol want to do dumb things to its best pre-game show (by far)?
August 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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Godfrey says:
“I think it’s great that Gameday is broadcasting live from Vanderbilt. It’s so CRAZY and KOOL that the ‘Dores are undefeated!”
- Everyone, circa October 2008
You have no one but your own selves to blame for this.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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Dawg says:
@10
Brilliant. You had me until Chesney came crying home to mama.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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Kerwin4two says:
I liked it when Better than Ezra was “Not” the game day band.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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Magic Hobo says:
“I don’t watch CMT
Naw that shit makes me sick.
And that ol’ Kenny Chesney,
What a hypocrite.
He’ll swear he’s country,
But he lives in the Caribbean.
Sings all about the islands now,
What happened to the Tennessean?
Aw, if he’s country I’ll kiss your ass
Throw all my Johnny Cash records in the trash
He’s all about image cuz image pays the bucks,
Aw but if he’s country, well then country really sucks.”
Cocktails (or, alternately, beers of choice) to Corey Smith.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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ALGator says:
What the hell ever.. you guys will embrace this song, love it and nurture it like it was your own. Why? Because ESPN says so, bitches.
Rock on Kenny Chesney!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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dallasga6 says:
@10…. Is that you Kenny??
August 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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Counter Trap says:
So, I guess my suggestion to use and old George Jones and Tammy Wynette duet will be unacceptable as well?
August 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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Sam says:
I want to set this post on fire and inject the ashes into my goddamn eyes. Steve Earle would approve.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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Gamecock'n'Balls says:
“Because nothing says “fired up for game day” than a wanna-be Jimmy Buffett.”
God, talk about aiming low…but I guess when you’re Chesney’s height, it’s only natural.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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Year2 says:
Comparatively speaking, ESPN’s college football coverage is very good. However, it’s still done by ESPN, which means there has to be some part of it that is corporate sponsored BS of the first degree. As long as they’re going to make it a song that I can mute during something that will never be cut anyway (like opening credits or highlight montages and whatnot), then I can deal.
As long as it doesn’t end up being “lets cut away from the telecast and play a four minute long music video that’s entirely out of place” then I guess I’m fine with this. Like I said, it’s ESPN. Everything has a banality quota to fulfill.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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Ltrain says:
Rich Brooks thinks this is Bullshit.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
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dirt sandwich says:
@10 - beautiful, sublime.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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Kevin@LSU says:
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t starting to warm up to…AND WE’RE COMIN’, TO YOUR CIT-TAY!!!!!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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PalmettoTiger says:
Re: WWL & Chesney’s love spawn
Nuke ‘em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
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comoprozac says:
This is a great win for the LGBT community!
http://in-misery.blogspot.com/2007/05/contemplating-kenny-chesneys-gayness.html
August 27th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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haybeav says:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that may have been the first time someone typed the name “Rene Zellwinger” on this site.
Anyway, Duece, get a fucking life..This is not some fucking country music message board. I can picture you sitting at your computer wiping the tears from your face because someone made fun of that fake, short, watered down joke of a musician.
Kenny Chesney is country music’s version of crappy pop music
August 27th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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jd says:
kinda surprised with the selection of chesney.
really thought they were going with GWAR on this one. I mean, at least GWAR wear shoulder pads in their videos and are predisposed to violence.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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WorstFan says:
#10 wins forever.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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Alex says:
i’m gonna get fired if i keep trying to stifle EDSBS gigglez at work today . . .
August 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
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Brizzle says:
I think all of you pretty much covered it. Shitty singer-check. Short-check. Wannabe Jimmy Buffet-check. I haven’t watched Gameday in a couple years, but this still pisses me off.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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soledad says:
Oh how I adore you Senor Swindle when you get all worked up into a lather. Every writer needs a muse, thank the WWL for providing you with such a purty target for your vitriol.
@10 - nice work though apparently a few more people need to Google Mike Gundy
August 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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cob says:
@32, Tommy Kilborn thinks you are way underrating ND this year and you will pump his gas one day. Have at ‘em!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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SH says:
Hey, at least it’s not Nickelback … wait … who did they pick? …. shit.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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John says:
This is all Tim Tebow’s doing. He of the “Courtney Cox/Dancing in the Dark” climb on stage fame with Chesney.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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sb says:
eer in ATL @#9…are you saying Kenny Chesney wears “jorts”? He ain’t no Gator…
hay beav @#32…seriously? Oh, good, for a minute I thought you missed the parody…
…and I thought Big and Rich sucked…little did I know what lay ahead…
August 27th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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Sean Glennon's Jersey says:
#10 FTW!
You had me going for a minute……
August 27th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
#32
Haybeav, that was his inside joke take on “I’m A MAN, I’M FORTY” speech, verbatim, that Coach Gundy gave. And Deuce, may hats off to ya.
I thought his theme song would be this:
“I still Think Tebows Sexy”(to the tune of ” She Thinks My Tractors Sexxxaaaaayyy”)
I still think Tebows sexy
He really turns me on
I’m always staring at him
While he running along
I like the way he’s passing and picking up first downs
I’m even kind of crazy about his end around,
He’s the only one who really understands what gets me
I think Tim Tebows sexyyyyyyy
Running these stadiums in the hot summer sun
Over by the gate, lordy here he comes
With a basket full of scaples to go slice on a foreign kids pee pee…
A makeshift operating room and he comes up
A lil circle cut and spurt a lil blood
Just look at his face….. he ain’t a foolin meeeeeee…….
(Chorus)
We run back and forth ’til we run out of light
Run up the stadium and puke all night
Climb up in the press box and talk with noooo shirts on
He said he’s got a dream and I asked what it is
He wants a Dr’s office full of uncircumcised kids
And one more teeny weeny set of squats before I take him home
(Chorus)
August 27th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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I'm A Lasagna Hog says:
32, I’ve got some swamp land in Algeria that I can sell you for an absolute bargain.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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Holly says:
Really? We’ve been so long without football that we can’t recognize the most notorious Big XII meme in years? Go run some laps. S’almost gametime.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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haybeav says:
Whoops….I wish someone would have mentioned Mike Gundy before, because as soon as I read it, it clicked in my head. My bad.
We all have our off days, i guess…But I was serious about “Rene Zellwinger”
August 27th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
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haybeav says:
Yes Yes, I was “that guy” this time.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
#46
You had me at “Homo”…lol she divorced his ass for “Fraud”?
What was the fraud, that he was short and wore high heeled boots like Stallone?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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R says:
“You drive a fucking Honda…. to work, Sonic, Bass Pro Shops, and that’s about it.”
Whoa. You just described my year in Destin - leaving out only the lunch-hour drinking binges in the Bed, Bath, and Beyond parking lot.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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hobeg8r says:
Kudos to @ 10. Genius.
Dear WWL:
If I wanted to listen to country music, I would watch NASCAR races.
Sincerely yours,
If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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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
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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
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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
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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