You're there, I'm here, and we're really into declarative statements. It's important for a writer to set the stage, and it's clear from the start. Or worse still, you get "One Shining Moment." Let's examine the worst song in sporting history a little closer.īOLD STATEMENT THERE, SIR. Don't remember it? There's a reason, and it's called "The Theme to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games." When you just let the fans glom on randomly to a song, you get Liverpool fans with tears streaming down their cheeks singing "You'll Never Walk Alone." Create a song for the occasion, and you get the theme to the 2010 Vancouver Games. "Chelsea Dagger" for the 2008-09 Chicago Blackhawks just sort of happened so did the ubiquity of "Zombie Nation," which while annoying as hell certainly seems to have an effect on springy young drunk people in college stands. You and the average mortal with a keyboard and Garage Band on their laptop are doomed.Īt best, songs associated with sports should be a matter of happy coincidence and randomness. Prince wrote a bad song when he tried to write a sports song, and he's brilliant. Songs should not be written for things, because songs designed for certain events inevitably suck, especially when you commission them. Ignore the music for the moment (though you know you're in trouble when you hear an organ, the musical harbinger of a terrible musician about to get "serious, man"). The other is "One Shining Moment," the Jim Nantz of sporting songs. Jim Nantz will still call the final instead of Gus Johnson, meaning you'll get Nantz calling the most intense and passionate collegiate sporting event of the year like he's watching a sloth hump a two-by-four. There will be two wretched traditions lurching their way through the door, however. You get March Madness across a number of different platforms, thus diversifying any potential suck outbreaks in the broadcast. He could be pledging a million dollars towards Japanese earthquake relief and it would sound like "Hi guys I'm Jim Nantz and bright lights would confuse me if I were more curious hey isn't mayonnaise delicious as a main course and condiment?" Between Nantz's bland human wallpaper act and former CBS announcer Billy Packer's continual dislike of life and all things living, it was a bad, bad human wrecking ball there for a while there on CBS, an announcing milkshake made of mental beef tallow and pepper spray. I hate Jim Nantz calling anything simply because he sounds like such a smug, superficial bastard no matter what he's saying. The arbitrary and completely irrational spreads to the broadcast itself. I'll like you as much irrationally as I hate Duke irrationally, and that is in a purely nonsensical fashion with only Duke's perpetual floppiness to claim for even a shred of hateful justification. Peter's-no, it's all the better if I don't, because who cares about facts here when all I want to do is love you, team I've never heard of and just adopted for no reason whatsoever. I don't need to know about Old Dominion's roster, or the surprisingly solid halfcourt play of St. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.There is literally no learning curve for enjoying the NCAA Tournament, and that is a good thing. Few other American movements have produced so many future leaders in academia, politics, international aid and public affairs as did this non-partisan and non-sectarian phenomenon.This storynever told beforeis documented by the correspondence, proceedings and news articles of the student participants and includes a 150-page appendix containing scores of documents, essays, statements of purpose, and official pamphlets. Nor did any fade as precipitously in the face of a widening Cold War. No student movement ever grew as fast and as broadly as the Student Federalist between 19. Damned by the fanatics of the extreme right, and of the extreme left, the Student Federalists rapidly expanded after VJ Day, reaching a high point of some 15,000 members and almost four hundred local chapters. From this mystical moment came the most powerful American student movement of the postwar decadethe Student Federalistswho pressed their elders and their contemporaries to consider the establishment of a world government based on the same principles which guided our nation's Founding Fathers more than a century-and-a-half earlier. During the darkest hours of World War II, a Scarsdale, NY, high school student experienced a "vision" of the possibilities of a peaceful postwar world.
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