Sports Go Sports by Garfunkel and Oates
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Garfunkel and Oates sing their version of a sports anthem. Featuring Britanick (Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher), Spencer Treat Clarke, Kyle Dunnigan, Gian Molina and David Scales.
Directed by Riki Lindhome. Produced by Adam Hendricks. DP Jay Hunter & Charles Papert. Edited by Lisa Hendricks. Production Design by Justin Lieb.
LYRICS:
I promise I really totally care who wins
If there's a net or hoop or hole in the ground, I hope they get it in
If they want to go to all the bases, I hope they do
If they're supposed to run past a line or whatever, I hope they do that, too
Sports go sports!
May they top their opponents numerically in the allotted time
Lest they disenfranchise their audience
and see their revenues decline
May the partakers be sturdy and rapid
In the spirited energies they exert
May they be victorious in perpetuity
Don't I look cute in this football shirt
Sports go sports! Athletics are number one! Participants are heroes! Go team yeah!
This is the most important thing that's ever occurred
The vicarious fulfillment of your dream that got deferred
You has aspirations as a kid but you didn't have the skill
So you watch genetically superior people do the things you never will
Sports go Sports!
May the competitors you prefer
best their opposing equivalents:
So you can somehow feel connected to the feat of your self-appointed constituents
May the hours you spend watching post-match pontificators
Amplify the thrill of being a witness
And better your predictive aptitude
For your squad's future physical fitness
Sports go sports! Athletics are number one! Participants are heroes! Go team yeah!
Watching abile-bodied millionaires play with each other
Watching less agile millionaire talk about it on TV
May they compile copious points so they are rewarded and meritorious
So you feel temporarily, adjacently victorious
Sports go sports! Athletics are number one! Participants are heroes! Go team yeah!
Every other word:
Sports! Sports! Athletics! Number! Participants! Heroes! Go! Yeah!
Every other other word:
Go! Athletics! Number! Are! Team!
Now in Latin:
Ludis ire ludis
Arcu sunt optimum
Participants sunt heroes
Ire quadrigus sic
Now the truth:
If you could only throw a ball
You'd have a hotter wife
Lots and lots of money
And a way better life
And a way better life
Go Sports!
“You had aspirations as a kid but you didn't have the skill
So you watch genetically superior people do the things you never will”
Why must you hurt me in this way?
It's okay, they're most likely all taking performance-enhancing drugs as well.
Because you make watching greasy men wrestle balls your personality
But remember, you arent gay or anything. ;)
😂😂😂 all of us mate, don't worry about it
“i woulda went pro if i never hurt my knee”👴
I worked at a sports bar and this is precisely how I felt
Audra Peister I visit a certain Sports Bar to play their trivia and that is exactly how I feel too.
Standard nerd here.
Yeah.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You can tell that this song hit too close to home for a lot of people here. If you can't laugh at yourself you have no business laughing at others.
On the contrary. People who can't laugh at themselves have the largest buisness laughing at others. It's pretty much a global corperation.
Ethan Davidson Your statement makes little sense to me.
Thank you for interjecting logic into all the hate comments. :)
Ethan Davidson
This comment made no sense at all.
I think basically what the comment is saying is, "Don't dish it out if you can't take it."
Ok, I worked as a sportswriter for 20 years, and this is brilliant. The whole nonsensical genre of fans who live vicariously through the athletes is taken down here perfectly. "More Points" to Garfunkel & Oats for this vid. You two are the sharpest satirists ever!
Is there another kind of sports fan? This kind of fan certainly seems to be the most prevalent, at least.
@@blossom357 Yes, the kind of fan that enjoys watching professional athletes show just how far the human body can go. That's the kind that loves the Olympics no matter who wins.
Then there's also the kind of fan that just likes to eat junk food and drink beer while hanging out with friends.
@@ireallyreallyhategoogle And the kind that likes to watch 275-pound college drop outs get paid to run into each other, but who are going to be broke in five years.
@@blossom357 I mean, I'm a big South Sydney Rabbitohs fan in the NRL in Australia. And I enjoy getting out to the stadium and shouting when I get the chance or catching the game on TV. But I never made my team a major part of my personality..I think that's the difference:)
Brilliant indeed
a list of all the t-shirts:
"go game"
"more points!"
"football shirt"
"vicarious winner"
"b-ball season"
"blue team"
"this is all I have"
"good throw"
"really fun"
"new glasses for the ref"
thank you!
You forgot "I have nothing else "
@@Mikaz24 lol
@@Mikaz24 that's the best one!
They missed out on this one, which I plucked from a Seinfeld bit: "Different shirt, boo!"
So let me get this straight: They can criticize the hypocrisy of Christianity through a song about anal sex, they can make fun of pregnant women, they can even sing about having sex with ducks or how they find vaginas nasty and it's all fair game and funny satire -- but a song about the ridiculousness of sports culture is crossing the line?? THIS is what you people pick out as "elitist" and "offensive???"
The world is a place.
I know right?
SelphieFairy Weirdly enough I just watched all those in that order...
Sports is for boys that failed to grow up into men. It's a factual psychological statement.
I detest spectator sports,so obviously I love this song and I'm a guy.
@@bobdavis3760 I do enjoy watching (some) sports, I'm a guy... and still I find this song hilarious! Something's wrong with me apparently. ;)
This is actually hilarious. People who don't find it funny are just people for whom this is hitting a little too close to home.
Agreed. And people too obstinate to CHANGE THE MF channel. This isn't controversial at all, just watch something else. I hate people.
I don't think they intended to be super funny in this one. More like a video with a moral.
home is one of the bases in hockey. the more you know!
It is funny, but only because it's an exaggeration. Obv there are legitimate reasons to like and follow sports. Conceptually they may be kind of silly, but so is almost everything else. Movies are just rich people pretending to be poor and videogames are fake worlds with no meaning. Everything is stupid if you think about it in a certain way, but that doesn't change the fact there are legitimate and awesome reasons to enjoy hobbies.
Obviously. But this song Is Perfect. Even the switching to every other word & Latin is a sports-like challenge, something being done for the sake of it. Please, ladies, can you all put on your cheerleader outfits & play along?
"May we top the other team numerically in the allotted time." - A catchy slogan if I ever heard one.
watching abled body millionaires playing with each other, watching less agile millionaires talk about it on TV
For anyone following, the scammers on hacking are always the same. One asshole says he does and immediately there is a follow post that that says it works. Probably the same crook.
I hax
Lol my fave lines
Same with any type of Entertainment.
I often like telling sports folk how I do not understand watching grown men grinding on each other fighting for a piece of jewelry or dishware, and diva rights never seemed all that important to me... Then I get the stares... lol
I used to think the "go team yeah" was the most ridiculous part of this song, but I just remembered that my college's fight song actually included the phrase "go team fight team fight"
yours and every college and high school ever.
You don't think that the part in Latin was the most ridiculous part? LOL
Living near Chicago, I had to endure "Go Cubs Go" endlessly a few years ago.
Fight fiercely Harvard...
Mine just talked about getting fucked up on whiskey, and being a great engineer.
May all your sportsball groups make many goal-downs, run-points and touch-scores this weekend! Yaaayyyy!!
Victory motions and sounds!
Don’t be so ballist. #allsportsmatter
@@ldgh47 Found the chud.
@@ldgh47sounds like by not mentioning crossed lines they really.....ahem......crossed a line
I just want a shirt that says, "MORE POINTS"
it would be great wear when playing golf
+chad Thomas LOL
More DOTs, More DOTs. Come on MORE DOTs. Kay, stop DOTs.
This song, along with Weird Al's "Sports Song" are the songs I play during any sporting event in my house.
And Tom Lehrer’s “Fight Fiercely Harvard”
The Lonely Island "We Like Sports"
A guy on the subway station once asked me if I knew who won the mets game. I said I didn't care, and he went ape shit on me.
I wasn't expecting that
I know, right? I love how every yokel assumes that because I have a penis, I automatically give a shit how the local team is doing.
Joe Hayden I could almost understand it if the local team were actually local people. But they aren't. They have no connection to your town except that they are payed to play on the team
Exactly the attitude I'm talking about.
Enjoy your mouth breathing.
hexum7 good point...these chicks are not funny. The brown haired one is ok in a strange way
expect everything on the subway
I do like them calling out the whole "Hero" thing. If your job includes playing a game for a living, you are not a hero. Skillful yes, hero no.
the whole thing is a joke...
@@camsmith3707 making fun of a real thing...
but they give high fives to children and donate money to charities so they can make more money overall avoiding taxes
The cardiothoracic surgeon that takes call 24/7 all year is a hero. We have something like 4,500 of them in the US. We have around 12,000 pro athletes.
The argument is what value these people bring to society. The business argument is “there is more of a market for millions of people to be entertained by these athletes than a need for serious chest surgery.” So the market dictates the pro athlete makes stupid money compared to the CTX surgeon because they bring in more cash. I understand that argument, but it is still frustrating when you weigh in practical ability.
Probably the scarier reality is that on a sinking ship, if the masses had to choose between an exceptional and famous pro athlete vs. a Harvard training CTX surgeon, they’d likely slam dunk the surgeon overboard.
With that said, this video provides a great moment of reflection of why we value sports so much. Nevertheless, sports are probably more important than we realize by acting as a societal pacifier.
@@DrDave-xq2lt nearly every person in america goes to school and requires an education so by that logic teachers should be making a lot more
I am a sports fan but also love the vid for an honest look at what sports really are. Just because you watch sports you don't have to pretend it isn't pretty much everything they said. The part about them getting paid big bucks and the guys talking about them get paid less big bucks I thought was hilarious. Sent a copy to all the guys at the local sports station (The Ticket in Dallas) and I suspect they will love it. One of the reasons it is one of the most successful "sports" stations on the planet is they never take themselves too seriously. One of the things that always cracked me up about die hard fans (of which I can classify myself) is that most of the players of your favorite team probably wouldn't even visit your city of they weren't paid LOTS to do so.
Thank you for this comment. I'm not a big sports fan, but surprisingly a lot of my criticism of sports I actually adopted from a professor at my college who LOVED sports. But she recognized sports for what it was and didn't pretend otherwise. I think people who love sports a lot need to stop taking it so seriously and/or just take it for what it is. Kinda like wrestling fans. They all know it's fake but they love it anyway, maybe even moreso because they acknowledge how ridiculous it is.
SelphieFairy I am a diehard sports fan but I'm also grounded. I only become excited during the game and I feel emotions and excitement the same way I do with other mediums. People are upset that they are so popular or that athletes make so much money. Well they haven't always it's just economics. Lots of people like it, it doesn't make it bad. And this may sound ridiculous too and I'm not saying I would do it or condone it but honestly if people beat each other up over sports, why do you care? You don't care about the sport? You don't care or know those people, they made a decision and probably got some sort of weird rush from it. I mean people having proxy battles in the form of sports are way better than actual war.
PGDJ because many people actually take it farther than just as a game? people will riot and destroy property over games which puts innocent people in danger and destroys businesses etc. most people aren't like that so, for the most part i just ignore or tease them about it. i don't like people who take sports extremely seriously, because they can just get annoying and really angry or upset over the stupidest shit -- that when it comes down to it -- does not affect them at all. I know lots of people who are like that, because sports fans are everywhere. this includes, family members, close friends, etc.. add the fact that that so much our pop culture revolves around it and basically shoves it in my face no matter how annoying i find it, trying to make you feel left out or weird for not liking it, etc. and you're gonna get non-sports people resenting it. that's how it is.
@Skippy the Alien lmao you good? What did Women's World Cup do to you? Why are you mad at equal pay? Why do you hate women so much?
"This is all i have" shirt is my favorite.
"I have nothing else" shirt is my favorite
Vicarious winner FTW
Niles Crane said it best: "I can't sleep nights til I find out who hurled what ball through what apparatus"
I used to work at a bar and they made it MANDATORY to use MY money to buy a jersey or something to support some sports team on football days during football season, so i bought a Tshirt that said "I just hope both teams have fun" because ill be fired before I give into pressure to support a football team
You’re my hero
Complaining about wearing sports apparel while working at a sports bar is like complaining about being allergic to cats while working at a pet store.
@@54raynor I didnt work at a sports bar, i worked at a local pub that would do specials based on seasons and events. During summer i had to wear hawaii themed clothes on sundays or a hawaii themed event too. I thought it was dumb i had to spend my money on buying clothes for their events
@@ladyteddi the argument remains the same. The bar wanted you to dress a specific way, and you complained about it rather than work at another bar that did not have such requirements.
@54raynor who peed in your cheerios? I found a funny way around the problem, rather than do something i didnt wanna do or risk putting myself at financial hardship. Everyone ended up happy.
"I don't care who has the ball or what they do with it."--My neighbor, Roy. I laughed my ass off when he said it..
I share this song every four years when the world cup is at its peak 😂😂
I do it for the superbowl.
I didn't know the World Cup was only every 4 years. Thank you! 😂
Pretty much my thoughts for any sport.
Lol me to
+Bailey C. Same.
Same here. Even the fake ones like wrestling
Hilarious!!! Sports fans who can't laugh about this simply take themselves too seriously...
I'm not outraged or anything but it seems a little condescending. Most things people do for entertainment aren't productive so why do you care if I enjoy watching sports?
@@zinho9169 Perfect example.
I seen this and believe I laugh I love it
@@zinho9169 It's not about the people who do it for entertainment. It's about the people that take it way too seriously and can't seem to enjoy one thing without shitting on another.
I have the biggest crush on Kate Micucci. There, I said it!
i knew it😤
I'm just gonna guess there's a really long line on that one. hahaha...
She is SOOOO cute!
The saddest day of my life?......when I found out that Kate was married!
How bout Rikki?
Let's plays? How ridiculous! Why would you want to watch somebody else play a game?
It's fun to watch!
It's a waste of time! **leaves**
**hears the football game on TV**
**Is watching football game, on the edge of his seat**
Watching football? How ridiculous! Why would you want to watch somebody else play a game?
...
That's a mighty bold assumption! ... I don't even drink.
But you _are_ fat??
Of course I'm fat! This is UA-cam, we're all fat here.
Sporkinator good...good...I'll move along now.
Not all of us! I happen to be underweight! But as long as we aren't athletic, that's all that matters.
I constantly quote this whenever there's some big sports frenzy happening, whether it's the Super Bowl or my college's basketball season. "Sports, go sports."
Haha me too!
So ready for the Superb Owl!
Patrick Chiasson thats why im watching this lmao
I absolutely love watching football and I laughed my ass off at this song. It hits home and is so true. C'mon guys, quit taking yourself so seriously and learn to laugh at yourself.
I used to be the biggest sports fan in the world. As I've grown, I've become just like this song.
This is me 10/10
I know know nothing about sports
Bunny Gabby I literally only know some things on wrestling. And I'm talking wwe cause I actually find it entertaining
And suddenly, I feel less alone.
I mean I watch nba nfl but hockey and baseball are both gay as shit
"Ludus" is one of those funny Latin words that shows how different ancient Roman society was from our own. It could mean game, sport, or school, the latter because studying for a patrician lad was viewed as as leisurely life compared to that of a soldier or labourer.
I was just watching this as suddenly thought, "I wonder if anyone's critiquing the Latin", scrolled down and saw your comment
How am I only just seeing this now!?!
1:57
You aren’t… I just learned of them last night
I was in color guard for two years in high school and had to go to every varsity football game. This was how it felt.
Every person who didn't like this song loves to unironically call other people "snowflakes"
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Sooooooo were you okay with "Pregnant Women Are Smug", but not this? A lot of comedy IS putting other people down. Comedy is all about the negatives. The essence of comedy is misery.
That said, I don't think this song is meant to be a generalization of ALL sports fans - more about a specific set of them who behave this way, overly obsessed with sports seemingly to distract themselves from their own failures and shortcomings. And there are a LOT of those people. I've known quite a few.
Groucho Marx never met a person he liked. He put down everybody! One of the best put-down comedians off all time. Don Rickles was next best,.
I find most these twos songs pretty unfunny, I hate detached smug irony comedy
Can't believe this is the first time I've seen this. It sums up everything I've ever thought about sports...which is not much.
Loved this, even as someone who watches sports and still plays them too, you have to admit it is all ridiculous - especially calling them heroes and their paychecks 😂
Those journey references in this video are gold
I just discovered this band today and I'm laughing so hard. This is exactly up my alley hahaha They sound so pleasant but blunt and gnarly.
This song pops into my head every time my brothers start talking about sports. I’ll even interrupt with shouting “sports” in the middle.
Omfg as a guy who deplores sports. But is the one friend in the group who feels that way. This is perfection.
Heard this on XM a few times, didn't expect BriTANicK in the video. Awesome.
This 100% describes my pure cynical and sarcastic view of sports
Same.
This is the perfect Theatre Kid critique of sports.
The stupidity and pointlessness of sports hilariously portrayed. Brilliant observational humor. Love these gals.
That's why I watch the highlights. 10 games in 10 minutes.
"you had aspirations as a kid but didnt have the skill so you watch genetically superior people do the things you never will" LMFAOOOOOOOOoO this whole song is golden
Go local sports team in perpetuity. Garfunkel and Oates sing their perfect version of a sports anthem!
I'm a HUGE sports fan and this is fucking hilarious!
Nice to see someone who doesn't have their ego bruised so easily.
this sounds like a power ranger song. ps that's good
it reminds me of dragon ball opening theme...especially the part "sports go sports athletics are number one"
I love listening to this on repeat the day of awesome plate or whatever.
Glad I'm not the only one not understanding sports. Thanks for the laugh! :)
This has been stuck in my head for 7 years.
When people try to talk about sports to me this is what plays in my head
Pretty much hit the nail on the head with me. Never understood why people get so into watching people throw a ball better than them. I must really be missing something...
You ladies are awesome. Was fun to watch and listen. Great video
Go sports! Just...go away...LOL Kate Micucci is so cute!
Whenever I see the Philip DeFranco "Sports" t-shirt, I feel I have to come back and watch this again.
A fellow beautiful bastard?
+amycus22 Glad to see I'm not the only one! 😃
My son loves oats and this is like one of the only song i can show of hers to him. Hes 9 months old but shes his biggest crush. Giggles and smiles everytime he sees her
I'm staying at All Star Sports Resort in Disney. Imma be singing this every day
Omg i love this song.
As an athlete, I applaud! 👏👏👏👏
It’s that time of the year again
Please keep making songs for the rest of eternity!
Moar songs, pls.
I'm watching this during commercials in the World Series
A sports team scored a sports point!!
I love watching some sport ball teams make high points in the big game. What could be more exciting?
Shirts from this video that I would buy and wear all the time: "BLUE TEAM"; "GOOD THROW"; "GO GAME"; "MORE POINTS"; "VICARIOUS WINNER"; "I HAVE NOTHING ELSE".
I remember this every Super Bowl.
I post this vid at the opening day of every sports thing in my city and I get defriended routinely, LOL, no regrets
Lol nfl fan here (Broncos) and this song is funny. I know sports is an obsurd concept, but its fun, it gets people together. Its when fans take it too seriously that doesnt make sense. Its just a game. Cant take it too seriously.
This sums up my feelings about sportsing perfectly. Especially in latin.
This is all the Latin I know.
Well, that was entirely accurate. Go Cubs! And G & O!
kate is the most ODDLY cute person ever
The greatest sports anthem, second only of course to Tim and Eric's impeccable "Sports". Look it up.
I play this at every major sport event that I really don't care about. Tonight, it's the Super Bowl. I just love this song SO MUCH.
I played this before the beginning of the 2016 Australian Football League Grand Final (Grand Final = Championship Game). My team, the Western Bulldogs, were playing off for the first time since 1961. I was very nervous & drunk before the start of the match, so much so, that I thought I would gain a better perspective of the situation by playing this song. While listening, I honestly felt as though the girls were singing directly at me and teasing me! It was quite bizarre.
totally captured how i feel about sports ^_^
This was very funny, and true. Being a person who is not interested in sports at all, this was fun to watch. Keep up the great work.
This. I have been the person who goes to a dance and just watches myself, as I would simply be too shy or think my dancing to be completely inadequate, and awkward to find a partner to dance with. Still though, I agree with you, and think you make an excellent point. Deserves all the thumbs.
Played this for my friend who doesn't like sports so now she plays it whenever I want to watch a game. I regret everything!
+Jamie sly it was at this moment jamie sly knew.... he fucked up XD
Awesome :) As someone who doesnt even have the ability to pretend to care about sports, this is exactly how I think of them!
Yeah. "What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?"
The thing about Arsenal, is they always try and walk it in.
"Ludis" is the dative/ablative/locative of "ludus, -i" when what you really want is the plural accusative of exclamation: "O ludos!". Plus "ire" is the infinitive of 'go' and it is pronounced EAR-ay but you wouldn't use its plural imperative "ite" here because "ire" is strictly a verb of motion not encouragement. A more appropriate choice would be the interjections: "io" for 'hurrah'.
"arcu" is the singular ablative masculine of "arcus, -us". "sunt" is the 3rd person plural copula. "optimum" is single nominative/accusative. If you are trying to say 'Rainbows are the best' - which they are, it would be "arcus sunt optimi". (Fourth declension nouns are not pretty.)
"Participants sunt heroes" is correct and is the first twelve sentences in The Aeneid.
"Itaque, io! manum!" ("quadriga, -ae" is a team of horses not men.)
or nobody cares
Fuck youtube, They just won't admit it.... You're the hero we need.
fuckin' boss
***** In this case it isn't mansplaining because the women were actually wrong and the man was actually correct. It's just normal explaining.
Uisce Preston actually the verb is put on the end of the sentence, so it would be Participants heroes sunt.
I need the "Sports" shirt.
May the team that spends the most money, win.
Like always - cute & funny:) Go sports!
I promise i totally care who wins
Oates is my spirit animal.
Hello, fellow fan! How was that sportsball game last night? Our team sure did score more points than the other team, amirite?
I like watching sports but I still found this hilarious.
Participants are heroes.
Not all participants are heroes. Only those perceived to often help one's team win games are heroes. That does not encompass all participants,
the interwebs really do know everything about us. just last week I listened to Kate's appearance on Fake Doctors Real Friends on Apple Podcasts first time learning about this music project, and here I am today, finding Garfunked and Oates on my UA-cam feed. Sports Go Sports
I fucking cant stand professional organized sports.
this is my first time seeing this and it is Weird AL worthy. Absolutely brilliant. As I've moved into late mid life my obsession with sports has really waned..., but as a young man, up through my thirties, I was definitely one of those guys. Sports fever is intertwined with humanity's competition/survival ethos; It is what makes humans nuts. Win, dominate, eliminate, subjugate, triumph, victor and vanquished....., it's the story of the evolution of the species.....,
They're just gonna take it one game at a time, stay within themselves, and give 110%.
Dammit. You got there a year before me. Not gonna delete though, it needs to be said.
"Now in Latin!" That cracked me up!
I thought I was coming for a joke, not an execution.
Never gets old! Lol
This comment section: smug people who hate sports vs people who invest too much into sports. Where are all the people in the middle like me who are like "meh" 😅
Tracy Coxon's error was to conflate ethnic culture with what he believed to be sports culture, just so he could lay the charge that G&O were practicing "ethnocentric bullying", which is an incomplete leap of logic. His hubris would have us believe that a folk comedy duo from LA with a combined weight of less than 100 kilos is bullying athletic jocks nationwide. Unbelievable!
I was sent here by someone who made an Artemis Fowl joke.