Is Anyone Else Sick Of The "Monday Night Football Theme"?

The Game Room
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Three more days to go, and I can stop hearing “Buh-buh-buh-buhhh” every time someone wants to sell snack food and pizza on TV.

There are so many other tunes that can be used to epitomize ruggedness and machismo to associate a product with football. NFL Films used all kinds of music to go with their football clips (I was kind of fond of “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor” myself.)

But for some demented reason, every single advertiser has settled on “Heavy Action” as the jingle to hawk their wares for The Big Game! Aaugh! I can’t stand it!

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I never did like the song, but then I never liked football either.

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I enjoy it, but I sing it in a dainty, girlie voice to irritate my husband.

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bow wow wow yippee-yo yippee-yay bow wow yippee-yo yippee-yay

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I still love it. It gets my blood pumping every time it comes on before a game, especially when the Steelers are playing.

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It’s Hank Williams Jr.'s Are you ready for some football that make me vomitose.

The Monday Night Football jingle continues to bring nothing but excitement and evokes fond memories from the past; Keith Jackson, Dandy Don, Howard, Frank Gifford, etc.

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See I love the theme too. I especially like it’s use in the commercial that goes “Game starting now…have fun in the basement! I’m sitting on lucky couch!” Makes me smile.

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I’m moving this from The BBQ Pit to The Game Room.

Gfactor
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Oh, great. Now I’ve got to follow my rant in a forum that I’ve never entered until now.

I’d Pit that, but it would probably be moved, too.

Oh, well. Go Saints!

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Think that’s bad? I was at the Orlando House of Blues in 2006 to hear Hank Williams, Jr. record an entire season’s worth of Are You Ready For Some Football?

Not on purpose. I was stuck there.

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Love it? Yep - it used to be my ringtone, actually. I got a new phone though, so now it’s not. I heard a commercial that used it recently and thought, “I gotta get that as my ringtone again!”

The Hank Williams thing is a monstrosity though, isn’t it? Ick.

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See, the Hank Williams thing makes me grin every week with whatever wordplay they go with.
The lucky couch ad makes me want to shoot somebody.

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Love that theme, and love that radio commercial…we sing it on the weekends

“Game starting now! Have fun in the basement!”

My pure hate is reserved for the horrid awfulness of that Faith Hill vomit-song she does on NBC. At least she lost the pantsuit, although the hooker boots are almost as bad…

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There are not enough dittos in the world to express my agreement with this statement.

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Yeah, that’s a cute one (it’s for AT&T’s TV service, btw).

I do think that the MNF football theme has gotten overused in commercials…but then, so have a few of the classic NFL Films themes, in the past couple of years. You hear “Round-Up” a lot.

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Although I like the boots, the song is horrible. And NBC, don’t think I didn’t notice that when Hill sings the verses about a given weeks’ opponents, the editing switches away from shots of her singing.

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“BUH-buh-buh-BUHHH” is okay. The theme songs for Sunday and Monday night are horrendous. I don’t know how you can punish Hank Williams Jr. adequately for that annoying and undignified schtick, and Faith Hill is guilty of not only bad lyrics and a boring performance, but screwing up a better song.

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Watch Faith Hill with mute on. it’s much better. You get all the benefits of seeing her without any of the drawbacks.

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They could always revive the original theme.

Disco!

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Hey, I remember that! Now that’s a jazzy theme!

I wonder if Papa John’s would use it?