Friday, September 12, 2025
Time: 7:45 PM
Song: Thunderstruck
Artist: AC/DC
Mode of Consumption: Playing over speakers at Sterling High School Football game.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/4f5V6rbtGt67AWtNGRS9vx?si=790e427725cc4935
Jodi makes a comment about AC/DC probably making a lot money from this song getting played at football games alone as the song starts up. The teams are on the field warming up for the game. It’s a high school football game on a warm September night.
I’ve probably been at a hundred games where the same scenario has played out. Teams warming up. AC/DC on the loudspeakers. Teenage girls dancing on the sideline. Maybe a marching band rounding the track behind one goal post or another.
This is how football has become America’s past time. A hundred years ago it was baseball. People had their routines then for baseball whether it was attending games, listening on the radio, or playing stickball in the streets.
That all changed sometime after World War Two. Football became a routine in American towns from one coast to the other. The place where people gathered, mostly on Friday nights. The Parents. The fans. The students. The entire community linked for a night, mostly agreeing on who to root for.
In bigger communities and university towns, the same repeated on Saturdays for college teams, and eventually the NFL caught on, claiming Sundays. The game was tied to the weekends. A good time. The smell of pork chops on grill and the change of color in the leaves on the trees.
It’s the crossroads of communities and big business. Hope and decline. Togetherness and controlled violence.
Sort of like the lyrics to most AC/DC songs.
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