Walk of Life

This blog is about music and sports. Two forms of entertainment that weave seamlessly together like peanut butter and jelly, pork chops and apple sauce or fittingly, lions and tigers and bears. We see athletes constantly trying to play in bands and musicians supporting their favoite teams. We watch basketball games at the arena one night and Led Zep rock the roof off the next. Hell, you can't even go five minutes at a sporting event these days without hearing the Stones at kickoff in Kansas City, Sinatra with a win in New York or Randy Newman postgame in LA.

There are even music videos which seem exclusively tailored for the sports fan, including this mid-80's gem from Dire Straits (dumb corporate record company won't let me embed video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_lfqKbOvTk

Side note on that video: pretty cheesy look by the band, but love the sports bloopers, followed by great plays. And as a Laker fan, always remember the quick shot of the team celebrating the '85 championship...in the Boston Garden, no less.

Sure, both popular sport and music have been filtered down in the last 20-30 years by greed, poor sportsmanship and a host of lackluster bands, but there remains something about watching a classic game or the excitement of a great concert that can't be denied (to use the first of many sports cliches).

So this blog is about two of my favorite pastimes and all the history, celebration, passion and opinion that go along with the big game and the next big band. This is a fitting time to start writing, since NFL, college football, NBA and NHL are in full swing and bands are finally coming to Sydney again. Lots to cover, lots to discuss.

If you haven't seen this montage from ESPN's turn-of-the-century retrospective, give it a watch. In about three minutes, this encapsulates the passion of 100 years of sports and how powerful the driving force of a soundtrack can be. Scuse me, while I kiss the sky....then tear up a bit.