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For the record......I'm NOT a football fan!

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Even though it breaks copyright laws, some of you will not be happy if the entire text isn't provided. So.............

The Rolling Stones have announced the November release of GRRR!, a greatest hits collection to mark five decades of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World. Now, ESPN will commemorate The Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary on Monday nights throughout the National Football League season this fall with "Legend to Legend", a unique collaboration with the Universal Music Group that will combine Monday Night Football highlights with classic tracks from the legendary band featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood.

ESPN is licensing 16 Rolling Stones tracks, spanning the early 1970's release of Exile on Main St. through the mid 2000's A Bigger Bang. The songs will be a mix of popular hits and deep cuts, including "It's Only Rock'n Roll", "Hot Stuff" and "One Hit (To the Body)". Four different songs will be selected per month and will be used for four weeks at a time on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown pregame show (6:30 p.m. ET), on bumpers and teases within the Monday Night Football game (8:30 p.m.), and in a post-MNF game highlight segment on SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship highlights, news and information show.

"Legend to Legend" will debut Monday, Sept. 10 when ESPN kicks off the 43rd season of Monday Night Football with two games at a special time: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens (7 p.m.) and San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders (10:15 p.m.). Countdown begins at 5 p.m. The schedule continues throughout ESPN's 16-week NFL schedule, which concludes on Saturday, Dec. 22.

"Legend to Legend" elements will be identified with a branded logo and high-end animation within Monday Night Countdown and SportsCenter, highlighting "The 50 Years of the Stones" and incorporating the band's signature tongue logo.

"We're very proud that the Rolling Stones chose ESPN's Monday Night Football to play a major role in their 50th Anniversary celebration; sports and music fans alike will enjoy the combination of these two pop culture legends - the most successful prime time sports series in the history of television and the world's greatest rock and roll band to supply music for our season-long soundtrack," said Bob Toms, ESPN vice president of production enhancements, who oversees the ESPN Music department.

ESPN's Monday Night Football

ESPN's Monday Night Football is the most-watched series in cable television history. In six seasons on ESPN, MNF has registered seven of the top 10 all-time biggest household audiences in cable history. For the 2011 season, ESPN's MNF delivered 14 of the 20 biggest household audiences (and 13 of the top 20 among viewers) for cable television in 2011, averaging a 9.7 rating (8.4 US rating) and 9,589,000 homes (13,252,000 viewers). MNF is the longest-running sports series in U.S. television history, dating back to its first season on ABC in 1970.

ESPN is available in approximately 100 million homes in the United States, This season, ESPN's coverage of the NFL - including Monday Night Football - will also be available to more than 73 million homes in 161 countries/territories in Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Israel, Europe, Canada, and Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Islands.

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group will release GRRR! by The Rolling Stones on the 12th of November 2012 for the World Excluding North America and on the 13th of November 2012 in North America. Available in various different formats - including a three-CD 50 track version featuring 50 tracks, and a four-CD Super-Deluxe version gathering a whopping 80 tracks - the collection tells the fascinating ongoing story of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry's Come On, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers The Last Time, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off Of My Cloud, Jumping Jack Flash and Honky Tonk Women and the perennial juke-box and concert favorites Brown Sugar, Tumbling Dice, Miss You and Start Me Up, all the way to the present day with the inclusion of Gloom And Doom and One Last Shot, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France. These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in the studio since completing the exalted A Bigger Bang album in 2005, and follow on from the critically-acclaimed expanded re-releases of the historic 40th Anniversary live Madison Square Garden concert "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" in November 2009 and of two of their seventies masterworks, Exile on Main St., in May 2010, and Some Girls, in November 2011. More information, visit: www.rollingstones.com.

Why is that UGH? That is great marketing for the Stones... last year they got rid of Hank Jr because he spoke his mind... and I was wondering what they would do in his place for an intro(which he held forever)... and this is great.

Cant go wrong playing Stones songs.


Thanks for posting CE



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Why is that UGH? That is great marketing for the Stones.

The 'UGH' = my own personal feelings about the game of football.

I'm Canadian eh, so I love hockey instead!

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Why is that UGH? That is great marketing for the Stones.

The 'UGH' = my own personal feelings about the game of football.

I'm Canadian eh, so I love hockey instead!

Oh.. Ok... I understand Its all good... and I appreciate the post.

But this is really really good news for marketing the Stones... and it makes the MNF show sound cool... it would be no small feat replacing Hank William Jr. He sang that "are you ready for some football" song for a loooooong time. And the fact that someone up there understand the concept of using deeper cuts versus common songs is even better. Plus there will be some cool swag produced out of this.



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Maybe the GRRR! is a football tie-in?

OK, I'm just grasping now.

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Maybe the GRRR! is a football tie-in?

OK, I'm just grasping now.

Maybe they love Canadian hockey and the GRRR is for the GRRREAT GRRRETSKY?

OK, also grrrasping here.

Isn't GRRR! the sound Jagger made at Richards the first time they met after Life came out?

What a drag it is gettin' old



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You misspelled 'EHH'.

....excellent....already light years better than the silly campaign to use Streets of Love on a daytime soap opera!!

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[www.thefutoncritic.com]

For the record......I'm NOT a football fan!

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Even though it breaks copyright laws, some of you will not be happy if the entire text isn't provided. So.............

The Rolling Stones have announced the November release of GRRR!, a greatest hits collection to mark five decades of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World. Now, ESPN will commemorate The Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary on Monday nights throughout the National Football League season this fall with "Legend to Legend", a unique collaboration with the Universal Music Group that will combine Monday Night Football highlights with classic tracks from the legendary band featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood.

ESPN is licensing 16 Rolling Stones tracks, spanning the early 1970's release of Exile on Main St. through the mid 2000's A Bigger Bang. The songs will be a mix of popular hits and deep cuts, including "It's Only Rock'n Roll", "Hot Stuff" and "One Hit (To the Body)". Four different songs will be selected per month and will be used for four weeks at a time on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown pregame show (6:30 p.m. ET), on bumpers and teases within the Monday Night Football game (8:30 p.m.), and in a post-MNF game highlight segment on SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship highlights, news and information show.

"Legend to Legend" will debut Monday, Sept. 10 when ESPN kicks off the 43rd season of Monday Night Football with two games at a special time: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens (7 p.m.) and San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders (10:15 p.m.). Countdown begins at 5 p.m. The schedule continues throughout ESPN's 16-week NFL schedule, which concludes on Saturday, Dec. 22.

"Legend to Legend" elements will be identified with a branded logo and high-end animation within Monday Night Countdown and SportsCenter, highlighting "The 50 Years of the Stones" and incorporating the band's signature tongue logo.

"We're very proud that the Rolling Stones chose ESPN's Monday Night Football to play a major role in their 50th Anniversary celebration; sports and music fans alike will enjoy the combination of these two pop culture legends - the most successful prime time sports series in the history of television and the world's greatest rock and roll band to supply music for our season-long soundtrack," said Bob Toms, ESPN vice president of production enhancements, who oversees the ESPN Music department.

ESPN's Monday Night Football

ESPN's Monday Night Football is the most-watched series in cable television history. In six seasons on ESPN, MNF has registered seven of the top 10 all-time biggest household audiences in cable history. For the 2011 season, ESPN's MNF delivered 14 of the 20 biggest household audiences (and 13 of the top 20 among viewers) for cable television in 2011, averaging a 9.7 rating (8.4 US rating) and 9,589,000 homes (13,252,000 viewers). MNF is the longest-running sports series in U.S. television history, dating back to its first season on ABC in 1970.

ESPN is available in approximately 100 million homes in the United States, This season, ESPN's coverage of the NFL - including Monday Night Football - will also be available to more than 73 million homes in 161 countries/territories in Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Israel, Europe, Canada, and Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Islands.

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Music & Records and Universal Music Group will release GRRR! by The Rolling Stones on the 12th of November 2012 for the World Excluding North America and on the 13th of November 2012 in North America. Available in various different formats - including a three-CD 50 track version featuring 50 tracks, and a four-CD Super-Deluxe version gathering a whopping 80 tracks - the collection tells the fascinating ongoing story of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry's Come On, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers The Last Time, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off Of My Cloud, Jumping Jack Flash and Honky Tonk Women and the perennial juke-box and concert favorites Brown Sugar, Tumbling Dice, Miss You and Start Me Up, all the way to the present day with the inclusion of Gloom And Doom and One Last Shot, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France. These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in the studio since completing the exalted A Bigger Bang album in 2005, and follow on from the critically-acclaimed expanded re-releases of the historic 40th Anniversary live Madison Square Garden concert "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" in November 2009 and of two of their seventies masterworks, Exile on Main St., in May 2010, and Some Girls, in November 2011. More information, visit: www.rollingstones.com.

Fantastic! Man, are we ever on a roll! By years end we will rule the world!



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Fantastic is right. Great news indeed.

Now I get it. They just wanted everyone to have to say 'the release of GRRR!' Those jokesters.

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treaclefingers
Maybe the GRRR! is a football tie-in?

OK, I'm just grasping now.

Maybe they love Canadian hockey and the GRRR is for the GRRREAT GRRRETSKY?

OK, also grrrasping here.

You must not really be from Canada.

Oh, I'm from Canada alright. Toronto rocks! (OK, so the Leafs suck, but.......). The Argos are....well, whatever!

Frankly, I prefer Les Canadiens de Montreal. Les Habitants.

See, eh?

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Cocaine Eyes
Frankly, I prefer Les Canadiens de Montreal. Les Habitants.

I am always trying to figure out languages here...

so lets see...

You want less people to be named Frank from Montreal?

You got it Max!! If I didn't know better I'd say you were a true Quebecois!!

Well, I don't have cable so this means squat to me.

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Cocaine Eyes
You got it Max!! If I didn't know better I'd say you were a true Quebecois!!

Nooooo!!.... If I have to be from Canadia, I want to be from Toronto.

OK Max. Done deal. We'll make you an honourary, Stones fan Torontonian.

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Cocaine Eyes
OK Max. Done deal. We'll make you an honourary, Stones fan Torontonian.

Yaaaaaaa!!!!!!.... and it makes sense, becasue I have seen The Stones more times in Toronto, than I have here. At one point I was going to buy a second home in Barrie, by the lake, but it gets too bery bery cold up tehre during the winter.

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Cocaine Eyes
OK Max. Done deal. We'll make you an honourary, Stones fan Torontonian.

Yaaaaaaa!!!!!!.... and it makes sense, becasue I have seen The Stones more times in Toronto, than I have here. At one point I was going to buy a second home in Barrie, by the lake, but it gets too bery bery cold up tehre during the winter.

Wonderful. We have a summer home on Georgian Bay, north of Barrie. It's lovely in the summers; when it's winter, it's WINTER!!

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Cocaine Eyes
OK Max. Done deal. We'll make you an honourary, Stones fan Torontonian.

Yaaaaaaa!!!!!!.... and it makes sense, becasue I have seen The Stones more times in Toronto, than I have here. At one point I was going to buy a second home in Barrie, by the lake, but it gets too bery bery cold up tehre during the winter.

Wonderful. We have a summer home on Georgian Bay, north of Barrie. It's lovely in the summers; when it's winter, it's WINTER!!

It gives "Winter" a whole new meaning.... YIKES!!!

One does not know COLD(winter), until one feels a 20-30 mph (30-50 kph) wind blowing into one's face, in -20 degee (-28 C) weather in Toronto. YIKES!!!


indeed.

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Why is that UGH? That is great marketing for the Stones.

The 'UGH' = my own personal feelings about the game of football.

I'm Canadian eh, so I love hockey instead!

The four greatest sports in the world: American football, Hockey, Unlimited hydroplane racing, and ladies golf.

When I read about this American Football/Rolling Stones/Universal Music project and that the announcement says

"'Legend to Legend' elements will be identified with a branded logo and high-end animation within Monday Night Countdown and SportsCenter, highlighting 'The 50 Years of the Stones' and incorporating the band's signature tongue logo.",

I immediately thought of the gorilla 3-D animation you can see per this uView app.

Anybody else finds a resemblance between an American footballer and a gorilla, in outer appearance (broad shoulders) and a certain aggressivenes (Grrr!), I mean? I don't know anything about football, by the way, but I can easily imagine a growling gorilla animation to for example the riff of "Start Me Up" in a football stadium. And: The tv programme, which probably will have many spectators, will play Rolling Stones hits, that then can be found on the hits compilation. Sounds like good marketing to me.



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Cocaine Eyes
Oh, I'm from Canada alright.

So why did you mispell Gretzky?