11
Oct
2011
Watch Barry Sanders’ Monday Night Football Intro (VIDEO)
By ArtieFufkin
(Photo: thepenaltyflagblog.com)
Following the big Hank Williams Jr. controversy from last week, ESPN dropped the popular singer and his long-standing theme song from Monday Night Football, leaving the nation wondering how they would get ready for some football each week moving forward.
Well for last night’s Lions-Bears game, former Lion great Barry Sanders handled the intro duties for MNF, narrating over the sights and sounds of Detroit. It’s a format that ESPN is likely to employ for the remainder of the season, and let’s just say the piece more than sufficed on such short notice. It wasn’t earth-shattering or anything, but I’m not sure anyone ever tuned in to hear Hank Williams Jr., and this puts the focus back where it belongs – on the game, and the host cities for each contest.
Here’s what Sanders’ had to say in the intro:
“Detroit’s soul isn’t in the streets of the city. It’s in the hearts of the people. I know. I played here for 10 years.Â
“Right now for the Lions, life is good. But like this town, they won’t rest. They’ll work, they’ll sweat, they’ll fight.
“Detroit doesn’t pat itself on the back, it gets the job done. Especially tonight, on ‘Monday Night Football.’ “
WATCH SANDERS’ MNF INTRO AFTER THE JUMP
Meanwhile, ol’ Hank was out re-writing one of his more right-leaning songs, “Keep The Change” to call out ESPN and Fox & Friends for mistreating him so, and call for a boycott of both networks. Get your free download HERE!
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So will the intro only feature the at home team? Why no intro for the Bears or whoever plays the home team?
Yeah, it looks like it will be a tribute to the host city/team … but who really knows, since they’re really just making this up as they go along.
[...] bad, but it doesn’t quite have the impact of Barry Sanders’ intro from last week. ESPN might be better served sticking with former players, who have a real emotional [...]