Music At Sporting Events Wick Check
Off Page Wicks
- There are 19 wicks but only 15 are non sandboxes / indices
- Music plays at event - in fiction - 4
- Song is the theme for a team or major sporting event - 7
- ZCE - 4
Music plays at event - in fiction
- Family Matters S 8 E 8 Nightmare At Urkel Oaks: The organist plays the "Charge" fanfare from baseball games at one point during Greta and Myrtle's Cat Fight, right as Myrtle is about to charge at Greta as their Cat Fight is still ongoing. Quite a few wedding attendants shout "Charge!" at the end of that musical sequence.
- Full House S 8 E 18 We Got The Beat: Kimmy plays the "Charge" fanfare from baseball games in two occasions, but no one reacts the way she hoped for in either.
- The first time she plays it, it's her audition piece of choice when Jesse suggests having Kimmy as the keyboardist for the girls' band. The other girls aren't impressed, but Stephanie, being a Sitcom Archnemesis of Kimmy's, is downright disdainful to the prospect.
Jesse: We know she's no Billy Idol, but at least she knows how to, uh, move the crowd.Stephanie: Move them where, to the nearest exit?- It's worse in the second occasion, because the girls' performance on "Wake Up, San Francisco" completely bombed — live, no less. Kimmy's one last-ditch attempt to get some positive reaction by playing the fanfare is met with utter silence.
Kimmy: Tough crowd. - Married With Children S 9 E 17 Something Larry This Way Comes: The only thing Al can play on the synthesizer is the "Charge" fanfare from baseball games. During the third runaround, Jefferson can't help but stand up and shout, "CHARGE!"
Song is the theme for a team or major sporting event
- PSY: The intent behind his song "Korea", made for the 2012 London Olympics.
- Kaizers Orchestra: Surprisingly invoked when the group became the sponsors for the Norwegian soccer team Bryne.
- Scorpions: "Rock You Like a Hurricane", particularly for the University of Miami Hurricanes.
- A professional hockey team in their hometown Hannover even named themselves after the band.
- Europe: The Detroit Pistons used "The Final Countdown" for their team intro from their late 80s-early 90s "Bad Boys" era into The New Tens.
- Bon Jovi: "This Is Our House" was primarily designed for this; the National Rugby League in Australia used it as their theme song for a time, and the New Jersey Devils started playing it for goals in October 2013 (ironically, this triggered a campaign demanding that they put back Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll". And they were booing it too! In retrospect, New Jersey's hockey fans seem to be hostile to their state's own music.)
- BTS: "Mic Drop (remix feat. Desiigner)" has been oddly popular in basketball events. Probably because of Desiigner's first line, "Bentley basketball, uh (git)/We playin' that a lot, huh".
- Ayumi Hamasaki: "Born to be..." was the official song of the Japanese teams in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
ZCE
- Matthew Good: Improbably enough, "Weapon." "Giant" begins as a parody of this, with a cheerleader chant overtop an ominous riff.
- Wild Romance: My hearts runs blue...
- Slap Shot: "Don't ever play 'Lady of Spain' again!"
- Synchronized Swarming: (Music at Sporting Events) Marching Bands.
On page Examples Check:
- Music plays at event - 5
- Song is the theme for a team or major sporting event - 2
- general association b/w playing music and sports: 3
- ZCE + misuse - 3
Music plays at event - in fiction
- A Knight's Tale infamously uses several anachronistic Crowd Songs (including Queen's "We Will Rock You") at the jousting tournaments.
- Major League: Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, former starting pitcher relegated to relief, comes to the mound with "Wild Thing" playing on the PA,
which becomes a Crowd Song. This inspired MLB to do it (per Arvine's Real Life example). - Robin Hood: Men in Tights: The archery contest is presented as a sporting event, with the crowd at least doing the tomahawk chop.
- The Replacements (2000): Since the kicker used to play soccer, the crowd sings "Olé" whenever he comes up to kick.
- In Unseen Academicals the Academicals ask the school's Music Master to come up with some chants. He doesn't quite get the essence of a Football Fight Song and writes them too long and complicated. That's even before Bengo Macarona insists that the chant include all his titles and honors.
Song is the theme for a team or major sporting event
- The Simpsons: Parodied in "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"; during a town-wide riot, several people loot a musical instruments store and march out playing a university fight song.
- In Taylor Swift's video for "You Belong With Me", the Hollywood Homely Swift plays in the school marching band and can be seen playing music (or at least cheering) from the stands.
just showing how the song is related to sports
- On The Simpsons, the church organist is also the organist for the local minor-league baseball club.
- Family Guy: While auditioning for the church organist position, one of the potentials plays a tune more appropriate for a sporting event instead.
- How I Met Your Mother - Robin's ex best friend is the organist for the New York Rangers hockey team.
ZCE + misuse
- Drumline
- Slap Shot: "Don't ever play 'Lady of Spain' again!"
- When has a wrestler not come out into the ring to his own theme song? — should be on Character Signature Song or Image Song
- Prior to 1985 (and WrestleMania 1), very few wrestlers had entrance music.
- Gorgeous George more or less started that in the 1940s ("Pomp and Circumstance").
Football Fight Song Wick Check
There are 49 on-page examples and 47 off-page examples.
Correct in universe
- Catherverse: Plenty of this for football and other sports, most notably racing's socialist Internationale 500
- Coach: The Screaming Eagle's fight song is set to the tune of the show's theme song. Nobody (Including Hayden) knows more than the first two lines of the actual lyrics (When the Screaming Eagles fight/They fight with all their might).
- Produce Pelting: In Stephen Manes' The Obnoxious Jerks four of the Obnoxious Jerks enter the school talent show. Instead of the act they auditioned with, they play a deliberately-bad kazoo rendition of "Roll On, Griswold". At a prearranged point, several other Obnoxious Jerks in the audience throw tomatoes at them, followed by lemon meringue pies.
- Pie in the Face: In Stephen Manes' The Obnoxious Jerks four of the Obnoxious Jerks enter the school talent show. Instead of the act they auditioned with, they play a deliberately-bad kazoo rendition of "Roll On, Griswold". At a prearranged point, several other Obnoxious Jerks in the audience throw tomatoes at them, followed by lemon meringue pies.
- It's Garry Shandling's Show — Suspiciously Similar Song: In-universe, one episode reveals that the theme song is actually a rewritten version of a local high school's Football Fight Song.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: 2014's Mandatory Fun saw Al attempting to downplay this as much as possible: while the song parodies themselves are from contemporary R&B ("Word Crimes" and "Tacky"), indie pop ("Foil"), alternative rock ("Inactive") and Trap Music ("Handy"), the style parodies that make up most of the album are from older or more timeless genres such as rock ("Lame Claim to Fame", "My Own Eyes", and "First World Problems"), folk ("Mission Statement" and "Jackson Park Express"), and football fight songs ("Sports Song")
- Music: Tom Lehrer's Football Fight Song parody "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is regularly performed by the Harvard marching band at football games. (And Lehrer himself liked to quote negative reviews on his album covers.) He even called one of his albums "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer".
- Music/AOA: The dance unit has a song for the Korean football team released for the 2014 World Cup, called "Spread Your Wings of Victory".
Trivia
- Knute Rockne, All American: The Real Life Notre Dame "Victory March" is prominently featured throughout.
- To the Tune of...: "Battle Hymn of the Republic" comes from "John Brown's Body", as does "Oil Thigh," the Football Fight Song of Queen's University.
- Revival by Commercialization: "Step to the Rear" from 1967 flop Broadway musical How Now, Dow Jones (music by Elmer Bernstein) managed to get a strange second life outside of it. It was used in Hubert Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign, in car commercials for Lincoln-Mercury, and was adapted into the Football Fight Song for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.
- Breakaway Pop Hit: "Step to the Rear" from the 1967 Broadway flop How, Now, Dow Jones became a minor hit and is now best-known as the melody of the University of South Carolina's Football Fight Song.
Pep Up Song
- The Hudsucker Proxy: Used as both a Meaningful Echo and Rousing Speech.Fight on, fight on Dear Old Muncie
Fight on, hoist the gold and blue
You'll be tattered, torn, and hurtin'
Once the Munce is through with you
Goooooooooo Eagles!
Same as Alma Mater Song
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: "Grand Old Ivy", sung by Finch and Biggley as Finch is pretending he went to Biggley's alma mater.
- Real Life: Gerald Ford, however, preferred when possible to have the band play the fight song of his alma mater, the University of Michigan, "(Hail to) The Victors"
ZCE, indexes, potholes in descriptions, and other non-informative wicks
- The Absent-Minded Professor: “The Medfield Fight Song”, the first of many, many songs The Sherman Brothers wrote for Disney.
- The Backyardigans: The music genre for "Chichen-Itza Pizza".
- Tom Lehrer
- TriumphantExample.F: "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" by Tom Lehrer
- Heathers: "Hey-yo, Westerberg! Tell me what's that sound? Here comes Westerberg, comin' to put you in the ground!"
- Music
- Music Tropes
- Alma Mater Song
- Music at Sporting Events: In Unseen Academicals the Academicals ask the school's Music Master to come up with some chants. He doesn't quite get the essence of a Football Fight Song and writes them too long and complicated. That's even before Bengo Macarona insists that the chant include all his titles and honors.
- África Brasil "Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)" is the most infamous one, however, it isn't the only one with "Camisa 10 da Gávea" being on the B-Side of the record.
