Morrissey Shills For American Football


After weeks of hearing about it and fruitlessly searching YouTube, someone has finally posted the above ad for the National Football League’s various Internet ventures, which uses a very, very truncated version of Morrissey’s “Everyday Is Like Sunday” in order to make its point about the omnipresence of the NFL all week. I’m just glad that this spot is only about the league’s non-network-TV delivery channels, because it means that every day isn’t like Sunday in the crucial “it being near-impossible to find a sports bar that has just one TV tuned to a baseball game, even though there are things like pennant races going on and it’s only week two of the stupid NFL season and arrgh” way. [YouTube]

 
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  1. brasstax  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    It’s a re-recorded version be some faceless music house singer, isn’t it? Can’t really hear it well enough on Youtube, but on TV it doesn’t sound like the original at all (and it definitely doesn’t sound like Moz singing).

  2. brasstax  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    also…lolbaseball

  3. sicksteanein  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    “it being near-impossible to find a sports bar that has just one TV tuned to a baseball game, even though there are things like pennant races going on and it’s only week two of the stupid NFL season and arrgh” way.

    Deal, Maura. It’s only two days a week.

    Some of us have very important fantasy football decisions to make. Like putting Ronnie Brown on our bench. WTF, Ronnie Brown?! Am I right?

  4. sicksteanein  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    P.S. Oh and it’s Week 4 of the season. Very, very important week :)

  5. Maura Johnston  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @brasstax: no it’s definitely not him but he wrote it, no?

  6. Maura Johnston  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @sicksteanein: blah, football is like the hot chick that only talks to you when she wants something from you of sports. i hate it.

  7. heyzeus  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    Yeah, it’s definitely some studio group’s cover. It sounds much…sunnier.

    I hope he made a lot of money licensing the rights.

  8. sicksteanein  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @Maura Johnston: This is a problem now?

  9. Dead Air ummm Dead Air  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @Maura Johnston: I agree with that assessment of football. 4 seconds of action, 40 seconds of standing around. Of course, I like hockey, so what do I know?

    Anyway, I’m going to the Devils/Rangers preseason game at the Garden on Saturday if anyone wants to have a beer and talk about which bands suck.

  10. brasstax  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @sicksteanein: Ronnie Brown, football ironman! (barring more injury)

    @Maura Johnston: I bet the NFL would’ve used the Pretenders version, but it had already been claimed for a chick flick.

  11. Maura Johnston  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @sicksteanein: haha oh, in so many ways it is. but i might be projecting a bit!

  12. Audif Jackson Winters III  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    How I dearly wish/
    I had not started Santonio Holmes/
    on my fantasy team/

  13. Lucas Jensen  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @sicksteanein: Don’t you mean former AUBURN TIGER Ronnie Brown?

  14. rajmahall  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    Having been in marching band, I can safely say I will never watch a football game of my own volition ever again.

  15. MayhemintheHood  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    I went to a bar on Saturday to drink some beer and watch the Angels game, but the old dudes that were already there insisted that all the tv’s be on college football. Keep in mind I live barely over a mile from Angel Stadium…which houses a team going for that ever important homefield advantage…yet these douchebags wanted to watch irrelevant college football games. I chugged my beer and just went home.

    I have seen these commercials, and it’s pretty funny that they’re taking a pretty depressing song and making it sound like Morrissey was writing about how stoked he would be if he could follow American football 7 days a week.

    (I must disclose though that I DID get sucked into my first fantasy football league this year. It’s kind of fun but I still could care less about the sport. I just want to win money.)

  16. brasstax  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @MayhemintheHood: Irrelevant college football games? I do not understand your language! If anything, college football is more exciting than pro.

  17. MayhemintheHood  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @brasstax: I have no problem with college football really(love bowl games), but it was irrelevant because A) it’s only 2 or 3 weeks into the season and B) we were in southern California watching random teams from the east coast.

  18. Ned Raggett  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @MayhemintheHood: Didn’t know you were a fellow OC denizen, Mayhem. Who else is around here?

  19. Lucas Jensen  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @rajmahall: I was in band so I COULD watch football.

  20. MayhemintheHood  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @Ned Raggett: We may be the only ones who’ll admit it. City of Orange here.

  21. Ned Raggett  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @MayhemintheHood: Down in Costa Mesa with me. And maybe everyone else from here is lurking, yes.

  22. D.R. Mosby  |   Posted on Sep 24th, 2008

    @Ned Raggett: I’m from Fullerton (and proud of it – how can you not like a place where the city museum has exhibits of the work of Leo Fender?)

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