{"id":37506,"date":"2022-12-21T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/why-is-the-sunday-night-football-intro-song-always-so-fucking-awful\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:59:07","slug":"why-is-the-sunday-night-football-intro-song-always-so-fucking-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/why-is-the-sunday-night-football-intro-song-always-so-fucking-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is The Sunday Night Football Intro Song Always So Fucking Awful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s a narrative concerning the Sunday Night Football<\/em> intro music that\u2019s instructive, one which I prefer to carry up each every now and then as a result of I hate the world. It issues former Panthers proprietor and residing plantation oil portrait Jerry Richardson. Richardson was about to enter surgical procedure for a coronary heart transplant, presumably as a result of his unique coronary heart wasn\u2019t fairly black sufficient to swimsuit his wants. But earlier than he went beneath the knife, he had one final request, as relayed to skilled nugget baron Peter King<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n

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He obtained the telephone name to hustle into the hospital in Charlotte for the surgical procedure late that afternoon. This I didn\u2019t know: It was an NBC sport that day, and when Richardson was being prepped for surgical procedure, he had one request earlier than being put beneath. \u201cI wanted to hear that Faith Hill song,\u2019\u2019 he said. The NBC theme song for the football game was the last thing, other than some personal words from his wife, he heard before the transplant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, it\u2019s telling that King would posit this as a touching story of the love affair between a dying man and, uh, a multi-billion dollar football league. Everyone else who read that anecdote saw it for what is was: a horny old Gingrich clone desperate to remember seeing an attractive lady in a sparkly minidress on the teevee so he could have one last mummified boner before ascending to the great Hardee\u2019s in the sky. There\u2019s no chance Richardson really wanted to HEAR that song, because it sucked. He wanted to SEE Hill shimmy around in his piss-soaked brain, so then he could go to sleep and (unfortunately) wake up again and take that boner out on every female employee within arm\u2019s reach. The song was beside the point, and it always has been. <\/p>\n

Sunday Night Football<\/em> has been on for over a decade. And despite its standing as the League\u2019s foremost primetime showcase, and even though NBC has a small army of production geniuses on hand to make sure the broadcast runs seamlessly (and it often does), it\u2019s amusing that they have cycled through so many different versions of an intro song and ALL of them have sucked ass. They started with Pink covering Joan Jett. Pink is the Spencer\u2019s Gifts of pop music and I hate her songs with a righteous fury. Then they moved onto Faith Hill covering the same song. Then they recruited Carrie Underwood, almost certainly because Hill had gotten too old for Richardson\u2019s needs. OOOOHHHHHHH SUNDAAAAYYY NIIIIGHT.<\/em><\/p>\n