The Love of Sports ranked the top 10 sports fight songs:
3. “Brass Bonanza” – Hartford Whalers
This amazing tune was the fight song of the Hartford Whalers hockey team, now known as the Carolina Hurricanes, of course. It’s part elevator music, part cheesy sports movie soundtrack, part magic. Hard to imagine why anybody in Hartford would ever let the team leave Connecticut.
2. Miami Dolphins Fight Song
It’s surprising that anybody talks about the Miami Dolphins’ fight song anymore, because the banjo-laden and grammatically incorrect tune certainly takes listeners back to an earlier era. However, the upbeat tempo and positivity that oozes from the fight song makes it hard to resist.
1. “When The Saints Come Marching In” – New Orleans Saints
Though the song isn’t used exclusively by the Saints, it’s often associated with the team (like in that MasterCard commercial last year!). In actuality, the team was named after the song. Once covered by Louis Armstrong, the song isn’t just a part of football culture, but of American culture as well. Much like Peyton Manning, who’s transformed himself from an NFL quarterback to a television commercial superstar. But I digress.
The Whalers’ jam sounds like an 80s sitcom theme song or something. It makes you want to bounce your head.
Could you imagine some of the theme songs for teams now? All of the songs on TLOS’s top 10 list are all light and fun. If teams had their own theme songs nowadays it would probably be about ho’s, intravenous drug use and detailed ways to literally kill the other team.
