When a song is selected to become the opening track for Monday Night Football , no matter who the broadcaster is, the national psyche is awakened and the song becomes more than just a simple jingle. It becomes an anthem.

It happened in the 70s with Heavy Action , a Johnny Pearson tune that has a Pavlovian-level synonymity with football for nearly all 332 million Americans.

Even those NFL fans who hate country music as a genre have a deep-seated adoration for Hank Williams Jr ’s All My Rowdy Friends Are Here On Monday Night , a reworking of his 1984 hit by a similar name. Debuting in 1989, this was the soundtrack to MNF for the better part of three decades.

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There have been other tunes used over the past few years, including a re

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