Rockin' Football Facts

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Posted Jan 7th 2008 1:00PM by Spinner Staff
Filed under: The Hit List
Which NFL legend celebrated his first Super Bowl victory by cutting a country album? Which popular rock band got its name from Mike Ditka? Yes, football has always rocked. And with the NFL playoffs upon us, Spinner tackles the 20 coolest facts about music-pigskin collisions.

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 20

[SIZE=+1]McFavre[/SIZE]

Tim McGraw may be a regular at Tennessee Titans games, but his loyalty lies with his best bud, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. McGraw has said that Favre is his No. 1 fantasy football pick every year, and Favre returned the honor by giving the country star a $79,000 motorcycle for his birthday this year.


Rockin' Football Facts: No. 19


[SIZE=+1] Heisman Hotness [/SIZE]

Whether or not you believe the rumors of a past romantic rendezvous between Reggie Bush and the 'Queen of Crunk-'n-B,' their chemistry is undeniable in Ciara's video for 'Like a Boy.' In the video, Ciara whispers sweet nothings into the diamond-clad ear of the New Orleans Saints running back.







Rockin' Football Facts: No. 18


[SIZE=+1]Fantasy Paradise [/SIZE]

A member of 30-plus fantasy football leagues, being an NFL fan is pretty much Meat Loaf's second job. In fact, he told the New York Times that he watches every single NFL game on Sundays, monitors free agent pickings on Tuesdays, calls into NFL radio shows during the middle of the week, sets his lineups on Fridays and watches injury reports on Saturdays.

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 17


[SIZE=+1] Coach Dogg[/SIZE]

If there's one thing Snoop Dogg loves more than his blunts, it's football. He owns the Snoop Youth Football league, home of his own son's Ponoma Steelers. The rapper is said to be so dedicated that he leaves the grass at home when his team hits the turf.








Rockin' Football Facts: No. 16


[SIZE=+1]Lions Roar[/SIZE]

In the late 1960s, Motown's Marvin Gaye aspired to another of the city's institutions: the Detroit Lions. After the singer was cut from the team, he returned to the recording studio, bringing a few former teammates with him. Lions players Lem Barney and Mel Farr contributed backing vocals to his classic song 'What's Going On.'

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 15


[SIZE=+1] T.O.'s Latest Beef[/SIZE]

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens recently told reporters that Jessica Simpson is "not a fan favorite ... in this locker room or in Texas Stadium." He later claimed he was joking, but it was no laughing matter when the pop starlet attended a game to cheer on her new man, Tony Romo: The Cowboys quarterback had the worst statistical game of his career.





Rockin' Football Facts: No. 14


[SIZE=+1]Saintly Star[/SIZE]

A former high school wide receiver in his hometown of Luttrell, Tennessee, Kenny Chesney became a "free agent" with the NFL this year, suiting up for a practice with the New Orleans Saints. OK, so he didn't exactly catch passes from Drew Brees on 'Monday Night Football,' but he did spend one day running drills with the team.

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 13


[SIZE=+1]Hip-Hop's Joe College[/SIZE]

Kanye West invited Florida A&M's marching band onstage with him at the 2006 Grammy Awards for his performance of 'Gold Digger.' The rapper clearly has a thing for fringe and epaulets: He also performed with a marching band in the concert for 'Dave Chappelle's Block Party.'

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 12


[SIZE=+1]Da Big Mouth[/SIZE]

Good-time California rock band Smash Mouth took their name from former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka's reverence for a bruising, nasty, thuggish brand of football that would have very little use for fizzy pop songs.

Rockin' Football Facts: No. 11


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Goalpost Grief[/SIZE]

U2's video for 'Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of' features a young kicker agonizing over missing a game-winning field goal. It stars legendary coach and announcer John Madden, reporting from the "unforgettable Fire Dome" on "Sunday, bloody Sunday," recapping the game between the Flys and the Lemons (the names of two U2 songs), and identifying the kicker as Paul Hewson (Bono's real name).





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Rockin' Football Facts: No. 10


[SIZE=+1] Quintuple Threat
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Deion Sanders, the football legend turned baseball star turned announcer, showed his dancing skills in MC Hammer's 'Too Legit to Quit' video. The man known as "Prime Time" has also tried his hand at singing, releasing an album aptly titled after his nom-de- gridiron.








Rockin' Football Facts: No. 9


[SIZE=+1] Sunday School
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Following in the rowdy footsteps of Hank Williams Jr. and Pink, Faith Hill has become the new voice kicking off 'Sunday Night Football' every week. She performs 'Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,' set to the tune of Joan Jett's 'I Hate Myself for Loving You.' An avid football fan herself, Hill told AOL Music the Tennessee Titans are the team she roots for every Sunday.





Rockin' Football Facts: No. 8


[SIZE=+1] Silver Screen Pass[/SIZE]

Any self-respecting rapper has to play a football star in a movie: After recording a song for the film 'Wildcats,' LL Cool J tackled the role of a running back in 1999's 'Any Given Sunday,' Nelly suited up as a running back in the 2005 remake of 'The Longest Yard,' while Xzibit portrayed a high school coach in 'Gridiron Gang,' from 2006.






Rockin' Football Facts: No. 7


[SIZE=+1] Rap Sheet
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After his sixth arrest for various felony charges, Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones was suspended from the NFL. His next step? To become a rap star, of course, releasing a single called 'Let It Shine' on his own label, National Street League Records.







Rockin' Football Facts: No. 6


[SIZE=+1] Steel Country
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Legendary Steelers QB and current NFL announcer Terry Bradshaw has released a half dozen albums, some a little bit country, some a little bit gospel. And long after hanging up his helmet and microphone, Bradshaw made a memorable cameo in a Toby Keith music video, playing a loser looking for love in 'I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight.'






Rockin' Football Facts: No. 5

[SIZE=+1]Arena Rocker
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Jon Bon Jovi is a co-founder of the Philadelphia Soul, an Arena Football League expansion franchise named for the city's homegrown brand of 1970s R&B. Another arena team owner, the Colorado Crush's John Elway, teamed up with Bon Jovi in a hilarious commercial in which the Jersey rocker and the ex-Denver Broncos quarterback kick off the AFL's 2004 season.






Rockin' Football Facts: No. 4


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Okie's Big Dawg
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Toby Keith was laying hits on opposing players long before he started laying down hits in the recording studio. Having lost his job with the oil industry in the early 1980s, the beefy country singer found work as a defensive end for the semipro Oklahoma City Drillers.








Rockin' Football Facts: No. 3


[SIZE=+1] Loser's Blues
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Wake Forest's Demon Deacons were so bad in the mid-1970s, they once went on a run of losses with scores of 31-0, 63-0, 55-0 and 47-0. Such ineptitude inspired Steely Dan's Donald Fagen to write the lyric "They got a name for the winners in the world/I want a name when I lose/They call Alabama the Crimson Tide/Call me Deacon Blues."







Rockin' Football Facts: No. 2


[SIZE=+1] Super Bowl Shaft
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The biggest loser in the 2005 Super Bowl's 'Nipplegate' scandal wasn't Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake but rather JC Chasez. After Jackson famously bared a breast in her duet with Timberlake, the NFL pulled the plug on JT's former bandmate, who was supposed to perform later that month at the Pro Bowl.








Rockin' Football Facts: No. 1


[SIZE=+1] Shufflin' Crew
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The 1985-'86 Chicago Bears rode their own soundtrack, 'The Super Bowl Shuffle,' to an NFL championship. The rap, featuring William "the Refrigerator" Perry, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon and others, reached No. 41 on the Billboard charts and earned a Grammy nomination -- the first ever for a sports team.