Ugly in Pink
When NBC made the formal announcement Wednesday morning about the musical selections for their new Sunday night NFL package, we paused, waited, hesitated, grunted, waited some more and finally realized -- they weren't kidding.
And after a day to sleep on it, it's hardly caused a ripple of newsworthiness.
Kind of like Fox dropping Jillian Barberie from its NFL pregame show.
Yeah, so what?
For the record, Pink will sing the new opening called "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," which is a remake of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You."
Right about now, I hate myself for even writing this blog entry.
NBC decided to leak the news to a couple of larger distributed newspapers to kinda get the buzz started.
Didn't really happen. Pink Floyd would have caused more of a reaction.
Then they went further to give out the lyrics (continue to read at your own risk):
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
Al and John will want to make us crank up the sound?
Maybe John Williams, not John Madden.
That said, famous composer Williams has re-written a few "Star Wars" themes and come up with a thumping opening instrumental that's supposed to immediately alert your brain that there's NBC football on the tube.
NBC then sent out mp3 files of the music that'll be used, and we're not supposed to distribute them. That's probably to prevent any backlash.
We'll call the 40-second John Williams piece of music "March of the Madden," since it has that kind of Olympic Games drum beat mixed in with some happy, peppy horns in a monotonous tone that would probably match right up with John Madden rumbling from the elevator doors of the press box to his broadcast seat.
"Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" sounds like ... we're not quite sure. Maybe something Storm Large could have overamplified on to try to stay alive one more night on "Rockstar: Supernova."