Am I right... I've been trying to 'be a sport' about it for too long!!! One of the many things I loved about the CFL is that it didnt have those simplistic, cheezy NFL-style "country rock" songs. Not that it was.great in past years, but now its this Southern redneck pop garbage??? Seriously, does anyone like.this SHIT?
Last edited by BeaverFever on Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:30 am, edited 2 times in total.
BeaverFever
CKA Uber
Posts: 15244
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:18 pm
PS in the time it took me to post this since that horrendous intro, its 7-0 Calgary. Fuck Edmonton and bring more beer!
Thanos
CKA Uber
Posts: 33561
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:30 pm
Except for getting the original classic Hockey Night In Canada theme music I can't think of much about the Toronto Sports Network that isn't God-awful.
BeaverFever
CKA Uber
Posts: 15244
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:58 am
And it's not just the song, the whole intro is shit, with little football players running across a screen of CGI graphics that are flying all over the place. Its dumb. DUMB! Does this actually appeal to people? Is the average sports fan really so simple-minded as to enjoy this?
Thanos
CKA Uber
Posts: 33561
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:01 am
Football fans down south put up with a drunk redneck loser racist like Hank Jr doing the theme for MNF for twenty years so I guess they're dumb enough to put up with anything.
Jonny_C
Forum Super Elite
Posts: 2103
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:27 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Am I right... I've been trying to 'be a sport' about it for too long!!! One of the many things I loved about the CFL is that it didnt have those simplistic, cheezy NFL-style "country rock" songs. Not that it was.great in past years, but now its this Southern redneck pop garbage??? Seriously, does anyone like.this SHIT?
Football fans down south put up with a drunk redneck loser racist like Hank Jr doing the theme for MNF for twenty years so I guess they're dumb enough to put up with anything.
A lot of country singers are broken-down wrecks, or have come back from it. You have to feel the pain to make the gain, man.
raydan
CKA Uber
Posts: 35270
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:07 am
Jonny_C Jonny_C:
The song's not great but the pace and the graphics are good.
You want a great football intro? Here's one of the best ones ever! ...
Even though Faith Hill is WAY easier on the eyes, I still prefer Hank Williams' rendition.
BeaverFever
CKA Uber
Posts: 15244
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:07 am
Jonny_C Jonny_C:
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Am I right... I've been trying to 'be a sport' about it for too long!!! One of the many things I loved about the CFL is that it didnt have those simplistic, cheezy NFL-style "country rock" songs. Not that it was.great in past years, but now its this Southern redneck pop garbage??? Seriously, does anyone like.this SHIT?
Graphics are good?? I'm not talking about produciton quality, I'm talking about the design concept- players running around inside a CGI universe of flying TSN logos. It looks like one of those animated scenes that people park their babies in front of to veg out on when mommy needs an hour of peace and quiet.
The NFL intro is slightly better, but there's way too much advertising space for the sponsor (Verizon) and the music still sucks. I hate that pop/country music genre in the first place and its even worse when it's engineered for a TV jingle. And get rid of lyrics in the intro song altoger; I don't need literal, overly-simplistic lyrics to spell everything out at a 3rd-grade comprehension level. I get Thanos' point that this format appeals to the southern goobers and the lowest common denominator in the US, but this is Canada, why would we just copy that format?
I think the HNIC is probably the high-water mark in this area, lots of archived footage and nods to the heritage of the sport:
The NFL intro is slightly better, but there's way too much advertising space for the sponsor (Verizon) and the music still sucks. I hate that pop/country music genre in the first place and its even worse when it's engineered for a TV jingle. And get rid of lyrics in the intro song altoger; I don't need literal, overly-simplistic lyrics to spell everything out at a 3rd-grade comprehension level. I get Thanos' point that this format appeals to the southern goobers and the lowest common denominator in the US, but this is Canada, why would we just copy that format?
The intro to a TV sporting event is supposed to get you psyched up. It's not supposed to be loaded with deep meaning (which would be kind of incongruous for a sport). It's cheerleading, plain and simple. Speaking of cheerleaders...
0:
cheer.JPG
...um, nevermind, back to the topic at hand.
I'd much rather see a couple of quick clips of "Verizon" in an intro than those tacky labels CFL players wear on their uniforms - RONA and Scotiabank.
Those southern goobers know how to put on a show.
The HNIC intro... nothing wrong with that, I think it's great too.
BeaverFever
CKA Uber
Posts: 15244
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:04 am
$1:
Those southern goobers know how to put on a show.
Disagree!!
I like 30 Rock's parody of it:
Jonny_C
Forum Super Elite
Posts: 2103
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 12:08 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Disagree!!
OK. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.
I wouldn't presume to change your mind on what your tastes are, but I do think that maybe your aversion is not common.
rickc
Forum Super Elite
Posts: 2960
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:08 am
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Jonny_C Jonny_C:
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Am I right... I've been trying to 'be a sport' about it for too long!!! One of the many things I loved about the CFL is that it didnt have those simplistic, cheezy NFL-style "country rock" songs. Not that it was.great in past years, but now its this Southern redneck pop garbage??? Seriously, does anyone like.this SHIT?
Graphics are good?? I'm not talking about produciton quality, I'm talking about the design concept- players running around inside a CGI universe of flying TSN logos. It looks like one of those animated scenes that people park their babies in front of to veg out on when mommy needs an hour of peace and quiet.
The NFL intro is slightly better, but there's way too much advertising space for the sponsor (Verizon) and the music still sucks. I hate that pop/country music genre in the first place and its even worse when it's engineered for a TV jingle. And get rid of lyrics in the intro song altoger; I don't need literal, overly-simplistic lyrics to spell everything out at a 3rd-grade comprehension level. I get Thanos' point that this format appeals to the southern goobers and the lowest common denominator in the US, but this is Canada, why would we just copy that format?
I think the HNIC is probably the high-water mark in this area, lots of archived footage and nods to the heritage of the sport:
I so wanted to let this go. I really did. I can't! You come on here with this snobby east coast, morally superior attitude about music. You equate liking country music to being inbred white trash from Appalachia. I seriously doubt that you have been to either Alberta, or the American southland. Calgary has some of the largest stockyards in North America. One of the largest rodeos as well. One would have to go to Dallas to see more cowboy hats than in Calgary. I could slip the average Texan a roofie, drop him off in Calgary, and he would not even know that he had left Texas. Cowboys and roughnecks. These people bust their asses for a living. They work and freeze their asses off out in the yards,and the patch. They put food on the table, and gas in the tank. They probabaly work harder in an 8 hour day than you do in 40. Who are you to belittle their choice of music? The best selling studio album of all time by a female artist is from Shania Twain. Its a country album. So yeah, lots of us DO like this shit! You don't like it, then don't listen to it. But don't come on here and act all superior just because you live in Toronto. Judging from the attendence from last nights game, I would say that the CFL needs to copy something from the NFL and fast. There is no excuse for that poor of a showing for a friday night game that was broadcast across all of North America,(heading into post season I might add).
BeaverFever
CKA Uber
Posts: 15244
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:03 pm
Gosh, all this time we've preached to about not stereotyping westerners and southerners as farmers and ranch hands and here you go! FYI, I spent every summer of my childhood in Saskatchewan and Alberta, where all my extended family lives and I also lived in Florida for 5 years. Also, you can spare me your "hard days work, salt of the earth" lines because I don't recall you sharing any such sentiment with factory workers fighting to keep their pensions or migrant workers busting their asses for less than minimum wage. But we digress...
To the subject at hand, my problem is not that it's 'country' music, but that the TV theme song, and the entire intro, is stupid cheesy SHIT. The lyrics in particular are - to use Ann Coulter's verbiage - retarded.
I don't particularly care that it's country-ish (although I am not a fan of the genre). The previous FNF song was pop-rock based but it also sucked, more of those lame-brain lyrics. If they just used an existing Shania Twain song, for example, it wouldn't bother me. As I said before, the whole animation sequence, the lyrics that have to spell it all out at a juvenile comprehension level are what bothers me.
Jonny_C
Forum Super Elite
Posts: 2103
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:12 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
As I said before, the whole animation sequence, the lyrics that have to spell it all out at a juvenile comprehension level are what bothers me.
Go to the fridge and grab a beer during the intro, then enjoy the game.
CKA Uber 
![[B-o]](./images/smilies/drinkup.gif "Drink up")
