Carolina Concerto Grosso
Or maybe just gross would be more appropriate. As if watching the Panthers hasn’t been painful enough this year, the stage is set for potentially true horrendousness. Imagine Jimmy Clausen on a tuck-and-bail, synched to the harmonics of “Achy, Breaky Heart.”
It could be coming to a TV near you, courtesy of Fox Sports. This from USA Today:
A new kind of NFL scoring: adding music to TV game coverage.
Don’t laugh. Fox will formally announce today that it will do that on its regional Arizona Cardinals-Carolina Panthers game Sunday (1 p.m. ET) after an unannounced test on last week’s Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game. Fox Sports President Eric Shanks on whether such soundtracks will pop up on Fox’s upcoming Super Bowl: “It’s a possibility.”
Given you’re bombarded with mood-prompting music in TV shows, ads and movies — and in stadiums and arenas during games — it’s seems inevitable that sideline shots of, say, Bill Belichick could end up being accentuated by Lady Gaga’s Poker Face. That’s Jay-Z’s I Know What Girls Like taking us inside the heads of kickers who just made game-winning field goals. Cue It’s Raining Men as players run out of tunnels. Everything going wrong for a team? Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
Fox’s Shanks says game playlists could include famous artists — “the rule is you use it just once and don’t edit it” — but will also draw on original medleys. For Sunday’s game, Fox has 15 new cuts from James Cardoni, who has composed music for the prime-time show CSI.
As much as I hate to see gridiron purity fall by the wayside to cheap pop culture, gotta admit that crime scene investigation seems appropriate for a Panthers game.
This is The Who, before CSI Miami corrupted the classic for its opening theme:
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