Specifically, John Mellencamp’s “Little Pink Houses”:
“Personal foul . . . Mellencamp . . . excessive use of the cowbell . . . penalty is fifteen yards from the spot of the foul . . . repeat second down.”
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NO such thing as too much cowbell.
And that hillbilly dancing on the porch in the video is offside.
Ed Hochuli is just jealous of J Cougar M’s hot wife. I don’t even think that’s the proper signal “excessive cowbell.” I think he’s making it up as he goes along!
I already ready to go Elvis on my TV everytime I hear “Our Country”.
I get the heartland vibe. I get the nationalism. I get the patriotism. I get the sunny, unifying message. I get the clean, down home sound.
What I don’t get is why every other commercial played on Sunday insists on jamming that now infernal chorus down my earholes for the purpose of enticing me to buy a Chevrolet. Weren’t the first 1300 times enough? Must that prodigious effort be replicated every Sunday? If I actually buy a Chevy, will you please shut that fucking thing off?
We need answers people.
Holy Hochuli!
Points for identifying the ref; it is, indeed, Ed Hochuli.
Which tells me you are watching entirely too much football this year.
Two points:
1. I got a fever… and the only prescription is… more cowbell!
2. Ed Hochuli is easy to identify, because he’s a ham and he halways wants to give you two tickets to the gun show.
Chevy played that Bob Seger song to death also. I never actually heard it on the radio but I eventually learned to hate it just because I had to hear it over a million times on tv.
Here’s the thought that’s always occurred to me during “Little Pink Houses.” How COULD Mellancamp have missed the obviously better “Little WHITE Houses?” D’Oh!
They used that for a tagline even for print ads where it was entirely inappropriate—like one showing a cruise ship with Chevy S-10 pickup trucks instead of lifeboats. Like a Rock!
I only watch NFL because I’m waiting for Hochuli to lapse into a Mr. Universe posing routine, only to be felled by an enormous ‘roid and dehydration-induced bicep cramp.
I’d pay to see a Cougar v Guns cage match.
I’d pay good money.
I learned an interesting thing about cowbells last weekend while visiting my sister. Drunk people love them. and my sister makes a nice profit selling hers after a gig.
okay, having read that again. please don’t make dirty jokes about my sister. she sings and plays cowbell in a band. and, and, people really do buy them and they have no idea how much a cowbell should cost.
Soooooooooooooo….what’s she getting for a little cowbell? ::wink wink nudge nudge::
Rereading that, I should probably mention that I really don’t have enough room for a large cowbell.
So maybe the cowbell references were what SWMNBN was so upset about.
Ew.