REJOICE! This is the last Sunday without NFL football until February.
Fans have been waiting patiently for six months for football to return, and the long awaited return of gridiron action is almost upon us. This offseason has been filled with speculation, trades, huge contracts, predictions, fantasy football, and (of course) betting on absurd futures, but now, we're only a few days away from NFL fans getting to see their teams in action out on the football field.
It’s a beautiful thing knowing that we’ve got football every single week (and every Sunday) all the way until a Super Bowl champion is crowned.
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We all love watching the game (duh) but one of the most underrated parts of the game experience: each game provider’s football theme music.
Now let me go ahead and put out a disclaimer that you won’t see Carrie Underwood’s “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” or Hank William’s Jr’s “Are You Ready For Some Football?” on this power ranking. Though I greatly appreciate both of those songs, and they add (or used to add) much to the football watching experience, this list is strictly the instrumental musical productions that each network that carries football has…for some unexplained, inexplicable reason.
Let’s get to it:
5. Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football
Prime Video’s football theme is respectable, but it just doesn’t carry the same musical enthusiasm as the others do.
Amazon is the most recent entrant into the NFL provider space (if you don't count Peacock since it's a part of NBC), so being late to the game and joining the ranks with so many other well-established theme songs had Jeff Bezos doomed from the start.
4. NFL on CBS
You might be scrolling through and be surprised to see that this one comes in at number four. It is solid, don’t get me wrong, but hopefully you’ll agree with my placement as we continue on through the list.
The CBS theme song packs a punch, and is definitely the most “rock themed” of the entire list. There’s really nothing wrong with it at all, but it just fails to top any of the remaining three in the rankings.
3. NBC’s Sunday Night Football Theme
When you’ve been waiting all day for Sunday night, this song absolutely brings the heat. The build up is everything, and NBC’s NFL theme music is a beautiful orchestra that welcomes in fans for the last game of football’s oh-so-beautiful Sunday slate (and select games that air exclusively on Peacock, much to my chagrin).
Pair it with the Cris Collinsworth slide-in (hopefully they bring it back) and you’ve literally got yourself a ball game.
2. ESPN’s Monday Night Football Theme
ESPN’s Monday Night Football song and NBC’s Sunday Night theme are both so good, which made it incredibly hard to pit them against one another.
However, ESPN’s NFL theme gets the edge in my power ranking because of the climax of the song where it goes “dun, dun, dun, dun, DUN.” For some reason, it just means more. Die hard football fans know what I’m talking about…
1. NFL on FOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RHFcBJja_Q
Finally, we get to the number one spot, which is held by FOX’s “turn the volume all the way up” NFL theme. I don’t know about you, but this song makes me want to run through a brick wall.
Hearing it right as the FOX broadcast begins (usually overlayed over futuristic FOX football robots running and spiking footballs on a Tron-esque football field) pumps you up enough to make you finally go for that 5-team parlay.
Are we ready for some football? Yes, yes we are.
And as an added bonus, here's an EXTRA (free of charge) theme song that I didn't officially include in the list, but it certainly means a lot to those die-hard NFL RedZone fans:
https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1830289554147868827
