# Songs for a dance themed around American Football **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238 "2013-10-14T18:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/21 "2013-10-15T06:42:51Z")
[You Gotta Be a Football Hero (to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxsATWBbBOU) ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/22 "2013-10-15T07:42:32Z")
I doubt it’ll give an “American” vibe, but if the kids wear NY Giants uniforms on stage, “The Rite Of Spring” would be fitting. 😃 Maybe Prokofiev’s “Montagues and Capulets” if there’s Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles jerseys?? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/23 "2013-10-15T19:33:11Z")
“Get Ready for This” by 2 Unlimited is played very frequently in American stadiums to pump up the crowds. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/24 "2013-10-15T20:01:48Z")
The [Super Bowl Shuffle?](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/69344/super_bowl_shuffle/) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/25 "2013-10-16T01:48:25Z")
The touching coda about the players’ lives after the game set to some [classic Pink Floyd](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnExahMPPFI)? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/26 "2013-10-16T03:17:12Z")
[Proud to Be a New York Giant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsG4sA6krvI) ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/27 "2013-10-16T04:20:31Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > [Proud to Be a New York Giant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsG4sA6krvI) Wouldn’t [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PlMqsc5Cc) be more apropos? Or some [Six Down Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myrcSyLMowE)? Of course, that might need to be updated next week. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/28 "2013-10-16T13:17:26Z")
> [@BigNik](#): > > Wouldn’t [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PlMqsc5Cc) be more apropos? > > Or some [Six Down Blues](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myrcSyLMowE)? Of course, that might need to be updated next week. Also [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWi1-AgA5g4). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/29 "2013-10-16T20:29:20Z")
While Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim did write the Jet song for West Side Story, Bernstein also wrote [Pass the Football](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/leonard_bernstein/pass_the_football.html) with Condem and Green from Wonderful Town ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/30 "2013-10-16T20:48:04Z")
What about that song “Football” from that 80’s movie Wildcats? It’s an old-school rap ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/31 "2013-10-16T21:08:17Z")
Not a big hit, but the song was used in NFL commericals: [All Kinds of Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2r0q0i2tg). ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/32 "2013-10-17T13:34:04Z")
Not sure how big country music is in Germany, but Kenny Chesney’s the Boys of Fall is all about football. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238/33 "2013-10-17T14:05:27Z")
Thanks to all for the great recommendations. I forwarded a list of songs from this thread to the dance teacher via my friend. I’m curiously looking forward to what she’ll choose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-a-dance-themed-around-american-football/671238.md?page=1)