ESPN’s football franchise teamed up Snoop Dogg, Chris Stapleton, and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana to remake Collins’ 1981 hit as a brand-new opening theme.
And while it doesn’t touch Michael Mann’s indelible usage, the new rendition sure is moody fun. The minute-and-a-half recreation sees Stapleton, with an upturned collar and cowboy hat, walking determinedly down a stadium, while Snoop, in a tracksuit, drives in on a lowrider for a rap verse: “Rivals, us first then survival. We must win, it’s tribal.”
The video splices clips of the several NFL teams of Snoop Dogg’s rap, a crew of dancers, and Blackman Santana’s drum-playing. The video ends with a Stapleton guitar solo as he hits the track’s high notes in the chorus: “Well I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh lord.”
