Rage Against the Machine, "Killing In the Name" Fantasy football is a blast, unless your league commissioner's totalitarian grip is so hard it squeezes all the fun from everything. Choose this person wisely, fantasy football brethren. Avoid the cuckolded husband or the guy whose business is flailing. Looking to exert power in the only place they can, they'll govern your league with all the subtlety of Kim Jong-un.
Go ahead and play the most anti-authoritarian song ever, Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name," on draft night. That'll show Joseph Kony Goodell you won't be putting up with any nonsense this season.
Depeche Mode, "Master and Servant" If you are the perennial winner of your league and have any control over the music being played at this year's draft party, you must include "Master and Servant." That's not a request -- I'm telling you to do it, slave.
I know, this song is really about getting dominated in the bedroom and not the war room; or, is it? The line "It's a lot like life" suggests there's little difference between getting beat by whips and the number-crunching research of football statistics done painstakingly over the offseason. Either way, you're sending a message to your fellow players. You will again exert your will and, since they have returned for yet another beating, they probably like it.
NFL Films, "The Power and The Glory" What is a draft party, a tailgate or any function involving the NFL but a celebration of the most glorious sport created by the sporting gods? It's my personal belief any proper NFL social function should include at least a snippet of Sam Spence's and John Facenda's brilliance.
Spence was a composer who created the iconic music associated with Ed Sabol's NFL Films. For years, Facenda was the narrator for that work. The story is Facenda was goofing around in a bar and started improvising over some NFL Films footage on the bar television.
Sabol happened to be in the bar that night and overheard Facenda. The rest, as they say, is history. Facenda's baritone delivery earned him the nickname "The Voice of God." His words combined with Spence's dramatic scores helped make football a religion.
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