Stacker Sports- Meta Takeover- Day 13
1085 sats \ 17 comments \ @grayruby 17 Jul 2023 meta
zaps forwarded to @Turdinthepunchbowl (100%)
Lucky number 13. Today's topic was an idea suggested by @Turdinthepunchbowl. Sats are being forwarded to Turd so make it rain.
With all the talk of Glory days recently, and since we covered sports movies last week, Turd suggested we do best sports related songs.
So shill me your best sports related song or to broaden the spectrum best sports reference in a song.
Sats for all. Bonus sats for everybody if @siggy picks the song I think he might pick being a big hockey guy and honorary Canadian.
Cheers, GR
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 17 Jul 2023
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul 2023
Great tune.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl fwd 17 Jul 2023
Fifty Mission Cap - The Tragically Hip. It's about the story of Bill Barilko who scored the game winning goal in OT to win the Stanley Cup. That off-season he disappeared on a fishing trip, the Leafs then went 11 years (which was crazy as they had been dominant) without winning the cup. The year they won again was the year his body was discovered. The leafs still play the song at home games. Also RIP Gordon Downie :(
Edit: thanks grayruby for the forwarded zaps, but also for leading many of the discussions/threads!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul 2023
I know it well. I do reside in the communist republic of Canada after all. I always appreciated the Canadian ethos that ran as a theme through Hip songs. I have a ton of respect for how Downie handled his last couple years.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl fwd 19 Jul 2023
I absolutely love the Hip, never enough love outside Canada. He went out with grace, lots of talk for his last performance of Ahead by a Century, rightfully so, but I get absolutely crushed by the performance of Grace Too a few days before that. There is a video of it on YouTube where he just wears it on his face, one of the most powerful yet saddest thing I've ever watched. I think most of us can only hope to have a fraction of the strength and bravery Downie had.
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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 17 Jul 2023
I'll start, and give turd 100 sats just for his name
Joe DiMaggio reference in Mrs. Robinson
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 17 Jul 2023
Nice I thought you were going to go the Hockey song route.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 17 Jul 2023
That one stuck in my head since I was a kid. I honestly can't think of a hockey one. Does Tim Horton's have a theme song?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 17 Jul 2023
Not that I can think of. Might have been one many years ago.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 17 Jul 2023
I could have picked this, but I hate Tiger Williams:
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 18 Jul 2023
There is only one good song about sports:
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 17 Jul 2023
Well mind are more tied to the broadcast.
  • The NBA on NBC from the 1990s
  • The Fox NFL Sunday tune
  • The NHL on ESPN late 90s early 2000s
  • The highlight tune that came on when Jim Nantz did highlights in mid to later 1990s
For kickers I always humm the madden 93 (I think) on SNES
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul 2023
You went in an unexpected direction here. Nice.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 17 Jul 2023
Nanowar of Steel - Pasadena 1994 (ft Joakim Brodén)
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Peialto 17 Jul 2023
How about "Rhe Twist"by Chubby Checker, the movie The Mighty Ducks.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 17 Jul 2023
Billy Joel - we didn't start the fire. Fall out boy - we didn't start the fire.
NB FoB wrote their new version with Joel so no it's not a rip off it's just fun.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 17 Jul 2023
Steel Panther - Just Like Tiger Woods.
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