# Name songs about sports & games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100 "2009-06-17T19:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/41 "2009-06-18T16:35:01Z")
“Team Spirit”, by Robert Wyatt (from the album “Ruth is Stranger than Richard”), is a song actually sung from the POV of a football. (Or “soccer ball” if you’re American.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/42 "2009-06-18T18:09:02Z")
“Black Superman,” a hit song in the Seventies for Johnny Wakelin, was a tribute to Muhammad Ali. “Big Leagues” by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider was about a teenage baseball star whose dream of a pro baseball career were ended by an automobile accident. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/43 "2009-06-18T18:20:58Z")
Since **Clothahump** already mentioned Kung Foo Fighting I’ll offer another '70s favorite, [Black Superman](http://www.lyricsbay.com/black_superman_lyrics-johnny_wakelin.html) ,about Mahammad Ali (he floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee). ---
**Author:** ![mj\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@mj\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mj_2)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/44 "2009-06-18T18:49:21Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > “The Runner” by _Manfred Mann’s Earth Band_ This is the most motivating song I have ever heard. If ever I don’t feel like going for a run, all I have to do is hear the first note of this song and I know I have no choice but to get off my lazy a$$ and out the door. Journey’s “What it takes to win” is another motivator although I’m not sure it’s specific to one particular sport. Just a great song. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/45 "2009-06-18T20:41:30Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Needs some hockey in here… Then put on the entire discography of [Two-Man Advantage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Man_Advantage). ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/46 "2009-06-18T20:49:33Z")
_The Distance_ by **Cake** is about a race car driver. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100/47 "2009-06-18T21:36:40Z")
“I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson,” The Fresh Prince and D.J. Jazzy Jeff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-songs-about-sports-games/500100.md?page=2)