August 30, 2006, - 12:32 pm
From Hank to . . . Pink?: NFL Sunday Night Adds Unneeded Girl Power
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Hank Williams, Jr.’s (a/k/a “Bocephus”) rendition of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight (Are You Ready for Some Football?)” was so popular that the one season ABC tried to replace it with popular acts like Aerosmith and KISS, it didn’t work.
But now, ABC’s Monday Night Football is gone (to ESPN). So the premiere prime-time football event on broadcast TV is NBC’s new Sunday Night Football. You’d think that NBC would pick something on the level of Hank, Jr.’s legendary theme song. But you would be wrong.
Instead, NBC–in a bad attempt to attract more female fans (and a good attempt to turn off the majority male fans)–has recruited pop star Pink to sing the Sunday Night Football theme. Worse, Pink is remaking ’80s has-been Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You” in to “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.” (Memo to NBC: Actually, real football fans are not waiting all day. They’re watching games all Sunday afternoon on FOX and CBS.)
And you won’t just have to hear Pink every Sunday Night, you’ll have to watch her, too. Says a press release:
As Pink’s voice serves as the signature welcome to viewers each Sunday Night, the accompanying video features Pink.
Pink as the new Hank Williams, Jr.? What’s next: frosted-hair Ryan Secrest as drooling NFL sideline reporter-babe?
We predict her theme song fails and only lasts the season . . . if she’s lucky. A better choice would have been someone male and masculine, like Toby Keith or Sammy Hagar, to sing some sort of football theme updated from “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight (Are You Ready For Some Football?)”
You be the judge. Here are the lyrics to Pink’s new Sunday Night Football theme:
“Waiting All Day For Sunday Night”
All right Sunday Night where are you?
Just kicking back from the things that you do
You want the Big Game, we want it too!
Hey Jack it’s a fact, the best show in town,
Sunday Night Football we ain’t messing around
Al and John will make you crank up the sound …
The NFL’s best have come to play
For every fan there’s just one thing left to say, ay, ay, ay …
I’ve been waiting all day for Sunday Night
The tough get rough in a primetime fight
The last one standing gets to turn out the lights
Cause I been waiting all day for Sunday Night
Sunday Night Football on NBC
The only game that you have to see
Don’t need a ticket, all you need’s a TV
Cause the NFL rocks on NBC
Tags: ABC, Al, CBS, Debbie Schlussel Hank Williams, football, Hank, Hank Williams, Joan Jett, John, Jr., judge, Monday Night Football, National Football League, NBC, NFL, Pink, Ryan Secrest, Sammy Hagar, Sunday Night, Toby Keith
Deb must unaware that this Pink had a big hit with an anti George Bush tune
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2006-17%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=Pink+%22Mr+President+%22
OY! I WAS, INDEED, UNAWARE. THANKS. I JUST SUFFERED THROUGH THE FIVE MINUTES OF THAT SKANK’S DUMB SONG AND VIDEO. A FEW COMMENTS:
1) WHAT DUMBASSES NBC EXECS ARE TO PICK THIS CHICK, GIVEN THAT SONG;
2) DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THOSE STUPID LESBIAN-LOOKING, NO-MAKEUP-WEARING, GREASY-HAIRED PINK GROUPIES WHO KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO THIS DUMB SONG? PATHETIC. I’LL BET THEY KNOW MORE PINK LYRICS THAN WORDS TO IMPORTANT U.S. DOCUMENTS AND ADDRESSES, LIKE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, ETC. STOOPID.
3) DITTO FOR THEIR GIRLIE-MAN BOYFRIENDS OR GAYS OR WHATEVER, WHO ALSO PATHETICALLY KNEW ALL THE WORDS TO THE SONG AND WERE SWAYING BACK AND FORTH IN THE VIDEO. WHERE ARE THEIR TESTICLES? SO THAT’S WHY THEIR SYMBOL IS A *PINK* TRIANGLE.
4) WHO THE HECK IS PINK TO LECTURE ANYONE, MUCH LESS THE PREZ, ABOUT HARD WORK? HELLO, SHE’S A POP STAR SITTING IN HER HOLLYWOOD MANSION GETTING HER NAILS PAINTED BLACK BY A MANICURIST, WAITING FOR HER TRAINER AND BAD-TASTE STYLIST TO COME EXERCISE HER AND DRESS HER. GAG ME. DITTO FOR HER SURFER HUSBAND. HARD WORK? NOT IN THAT FAMILY.
5) WHO THE HECK IS PINK TO LECTURE THE PREZ ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DAUGHTERS? READ UP ABOUT PINK AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER PARENTS, INCLUDING HER DAD. IT AIN’T A FAIRY TALE. AND HERE’S A HINT. HER PARENTS WEREN’T THE PROBLEM. THEIR INCORRIGIBLE, FUTURE POP STAR DAUGHTER WAS.
INCREDIBLE.
DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL
dennisw on August 30, 2006 at 1:57 pm