This spot for the Fox Sports coverage of the 2015 US Open
golf championship is very slick and beautifully edited, but it’s odd to me that
it uses the song: “We’re an American Band”, by Grand Funk Railroad, as it
doesn’t seem very golfy to me, what with no bands competing in the tournament.
Why didn’t they use one of the many rockin’ hit songs about golf we all know
and love; wouldn’t that have been more appropriate for a spot advertising a
golf tournament?
Oh, there aren’t
any rockin’ hit songs about golf? Hmm, well that it explains it, then. Perhaps
the golfers themselves are an “American Band” of golfers.
Gee, I wonder why we don’t have more hard-rocking hit songs
about the exciting sport of golf. I’m actually surprised that AC/DC doesn’t have
some sex metaphor song about golf,* like: “Hole in One”, or “Ball Driver”, or
whatever. I mean, AC/DC has a lot of sex metaphor songs, and golf involves a
driver on a pole, a ball, and a hole; you can’t get much more sex-metaphorical
than that. (Granted, it would be ridiculous, but aren’t all sex metaphors?
After all, most AC/DC fans are of golf-playing age by now, so it would be
perfect!)
Here’s the rockin’ golf anthem ad:
But if they’re going to use “We’re an American Band” in a
golf tournament ad, why not alter the lyrics slightly to make them more
relevant to golf, like so:
We’re an American golf band,
We’re an American golf band,
We’ll make accurate drives, we’ll make you feel alive,
We’re an American golf band.
We’re an American golf band,
We’re an American golf band,
We’ll make exciting putts, we’ll really make you nuts,
We’re an American golf band.
* (BTW: I stopped buying AC/DC albums 30 years ago {although
I still love listening to the old stuff to this day}, so maybe they do have a sex metaphor song about golf:
I really wouldn’t know. But I doubt it. Golf is a singularly unsexy sport to most
young people.)
