![]() ![]() ![]() We tried to stay away from jams that only really made sense for one sport (like John Fogerty’s “Centerfield”) or one city (like Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”), in favor of the classics that could work in the most games in the most places. To celebrate this canon, Billboard presents our list of the 100 greatest jock jams of all time. ![]() It’s a canon that spans rock, hip-hop, dance and country, and still includes pop songs old and new. But defined more broadly for our purposes at Billboard, a Jock Jam is a song that has come to define the in-game experience at a pro sports arena: Any song that, after years of stadium (over-)usage, is as familiar to sports fans’ ears as sneaker squeaks, referee whistles and Zamboni organ groans. ![]() As Sports Editor PJ Morales once said, “Duke just plays beautiful basketball.”Īnd (cough, cough), how could the NCAA not let that happen on Coach Krzyzewski's notorious “farewell tour”?Īnd so, to celebrate (and very honestly, take our minds off the impending doom), members of The Daily Tar Heel have compiled a playlist of the most hype, Tar Heel-esque songs that I’ll be bopping my head along to on the way to He’s Not Here this Saturday.Ĭheers to what will hopefully be some dadgum good basketball this weekend.Well, in the ’90s it was whatever ESPN defined it as for the purposes of their series of Jock Jams compilations: Most often, hip-hop-flavored dance-pop bangers which implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) promoted physical movement of any and all kinds. A chance for Hubert Davis to carve his name in UNC history for taking a bubble team to the biggest stage in college basketball in his very first year.Īnd as much as I hate to say it, if we lose (knock on wood), Duke is going to take it all this year. A chance to halt all the Duke propaganda being plastered on ESPN. It’s a chance to send Coach Krzyzewski into retirement. Or, at least until we meet in the NCAA tournament again, but who knows when that’ll be. Whoever wins this game gets bragging rights forever. The NCAA is kicking itself as we speak for not putting us on opposite sides of the bracket. UNC has never faced Duke in the NCAA tournament - much less the Final Four. But this isn’t the same as trading wins during the season. Sure, we beat Krzyzewski in his final game in Cameron. Someone on Twitter compared it to living in "The Matrix". To make matters worse, a Final Four against Duke? Listen: in what world, as a senior transfer student, do I arrive at UNC the year after a tournament win, miss the tournament altogether (hey, it doesn’t count if there wasn’t a tournament, right?) and then get to see a Final Four. Will then paid extra to play “Sweet Caroline” at the jukebox while Krzyzewski gave his dreary postgame speech.Īs any student would, I don’t want to leave UNC without getting a chance to rush Franklin. I tried to contain my excitement when Armando Bacot, assisted by Caleb Love, slammed in a statement dunk during the game's final minutes, knowing the chaos that was about to ensue in Chapel Hill. I watched UNC squeeze the joy out of Duke’s Senior Day from a bar in Pittsburgh with Will - one of my best friends. While all my friends rushed Franklin Street in glee, climbed street signs and lit fires on the road, I toured graduate schools. I’m not even going to talk about my blood pressure at the last Duke game. Peter’s, but Tar Heel Basketball is quite literally detrimental to people’s health (just surpassing UNC football). I’ll admit it was better when we played St. My resting heart rate when we played Baylor? 160. For a North Carolina fan, this week has been unbearable – just thinking about the game on Saturday makes my stomach turn. ![]()
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