After four years of trying different songs, the Kansas City Chiefs must bring back the traditional Gary Glitter touchdown song at Arrowhead Stadium.
If you have been to Arrowhead Stadium the past four seasons, or if you pay close attention to the music played when watching Chiefs games on TV, you’ll notice the traditional touchdown song for the Kansas City Chiefs has been gone for four years.
Gary Glitter’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll Part Two” no longer blasts through the speakers at Arrowhead Stadium after a touchdown score. The Chiefs parted ways with the song, and in turn, the traditional chant after a touchdown score, after it was announced in 2015 Glitter was sentenced to prison for 16 years for sexually abusing three girls between 1975 and 1980.
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During a 2015 preseason broadcast, Chiefs president Mark Donovan said the team did not want to be linked to the song anymore, “neither directly or indirectly.” Chiefs fans were given the option to vote on a new song. The options were “Hey, Kansas City!” by David George and A Crooked Mile, “Let Me Clear My Throat” by DJ Kool and “Song 2” by Blur.
Apparently, voters picked “Hey, Kansas City!” as the new touchdown song. I say “apparently” because after the vote, the team reached out to David George and A Crooked Mile, asking the band to incorporate the “we’re gonna beat the hell out of you, you, you-you-you” chant into the song. Reaching out to a local band was probably easier than reaching out to DJ Kool or Blur, but I digress.
Regardless, the new touchdown song did not last long at Arrowhead. Having attended the first home game in 2015 in which the song was used, I remember when the “we’re gonna beat the hell out of you, you, you-you-you” part of the song came, and hardly any of the fans saw it coming nor knew when to chant it.
Now, the Chiefs’ new touchdown song is “Let Me Clear My Throat” by DJ Kool, which was one of the options for fans to vote for in 2015. While it is a popular song, it does not deliver the same vibe at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs currently have one of the best teams in the NFL today with a superstar quarterback in Patrick Mahomes, earning the first ever MVP honor in franchise history. Now would be the perfect time to have the “intimidation factor” to go alongside the team’s dominance. The Chiefs must bring back “Rock ‘N’ Roll Part 2” as their traditional touchdown song.
The problem is, Donovan said the Chiefs don’t want to be connected to the song. My question is, why can’t the team stay connected to the song, but distance themselves from the artist?
Yes, even with all the covers to the song, it is Glitter who is the mastermind behind the song. But the Chiefs have played a cover of “Rock ‘N’ Roll Part 2,” while knowing that Glitter was being investigated.
If you listen closely here, you’ll notice this is not the same version of the song as the one Glitter performed.
Since 2006, the NFL banned all of Glitter’s songs from its facilities in 2006 due to sexual abuse charges in Vietnam. Therefore, the Chiefs continued that tradition from 2006 through 2014 by using a cover of the song.
Why can’t the team do the same thing now? In doing so, they’d still be connected to the song, but not the artist directly.
Arrowhead Stadium has been known to be one of the best stadiums in the NFL because it seats the loudest fans in the NFL. The “intimidation factor,” which included the traditional touchdown song, was part of it.
Arrowhead Stadium was the site of the AFC Championship game, the 10th home game of the season when you combine the regular season and postseason. Fans hope the team hosts the AFC Championship match two years in a row. Bringing back the old traditional touchdown song would bring back a spark to an already-exuberant crowd at Arrowhead Stadium.