When the Minnesota Vikings take on the New Orleans Saints this Sunday 24 January, 2010 for the opportunity to represent the NFC at this year's Super Bowl, they'll have a little more wind in their sails than they might have otherwise. Minnesota native and Vikings fan Prince has delivered "Purple and Gold," a fight song that he wrote following the Vikings' victory over the Dallas Cowboys last week. The track eschews Prince's signature funk rock in favor of a true fight song, the type of thing you hear crooned at English soccer matches or at Ivy League football games.javascript:amzn_apf.addProduct('B002WIDRM6');
"Purple and Gold" is just one of the many songs written about the Vikings, and there's no shortage of songs about the Saints either.
But even if "Purple and Gold" sounded more like a sequel to "Let's Go Crazy" than the Notre Dame Victory March, it would have an extremely hard time holding a candle to the greatest NFL-related pop tune in history: "The Super Bowl Shuffle," a rap song recorded by members of the Chicago Bears as a lead-up to their winning Super Bowl XX in 1986. The song took a fantastically ridiculous idea — a football team essentially recording a boast track, as though they were putting together a mixtape — and turned it into a sublime piece of pop culture ephemera. It even charted and got a Grammy nomination. With lyrics like, "They call me Sweetness/ And I like to dance/ Running the ball/ Is like making romance," it's no wonder it became an instant hit and a cult classic.
"Purple and Gold" is just one of the many songs written about the Vikings, and there's no shortage of songs about the Saints either.
But even if "Purple and Gold" sounded more like a sequel to "Let's Go Crazy" than the Notre Dame Victory March, it would have an extremely hard time holding a candle to the greatest NFL-related pop tune in history: "The Super Bowl Shuffle," a rap song recorded by members of the Chicago Bears as a lead-up to their winning Super Bowl XX in 1986. The song took a fantastically ridiculous idea — a football team essentially recording a boast track, as though they were putting together a mixtape — and turned it into a sublime piece of pop culture ephemera. It even charted and got a Grammy nomination. With lyrics like, "They call me Sweetness/ And I like to dance/ Running the ball/ Is like making romance," it's no wonder it became an instant hit and a cult classic.
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