The Training Camp Playlist

Your Tampa Bay Buccaneers open camp Saturday, kick-starting the NFL’s 2009 season. I’m a football junkie (alas, a Boston-bred Patriots guy) and an unrepentant wagerer, so part of me is jacked about this.

And yet...[cue ominous strings]...training camp also signals the end of summer, the start of school, the approach of winter, my kids getting older, college tuition, my gray hair, my aching back and, lastly, my inevitable death, the latter of which, it should be noted, will no doubt be linked to an unfortunate Sunday bratwurst consumed in a hard, cold stadium parking lot whilst I wear a snug Tom Brady jersey.

Wow, that’s [bleepin'] depressing!

To lift my spirits, and ring in the season, here are 10 rumblin’, bumblin’, stumblin’ football-themed tunes:

1) Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Pat Benatar
2) The Pass, Rush
3) Can I Kick It?, A Tribe Called Quest
4) All Kinds of Time, Fountains of Wayne
5) Hail Mary, 2Pac
6) Catch Me Now I’m Falling, the Kinks
7) Throwing It All Away, Genesis
8) Run Like Hell, Pink Floyd
9) We Are the Champions, Queen
10) All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight, Hank
Williams Jr.

Daly TV: Talkin' Pat Benatar, Bob Marley and...Amanda Overmyer!

First of all, John Thomas of ABC Action News has the greatest posture of all time. Dude should run for president! I swear I was sitting up straight when we taped the following video, but jeez, I look like I should be schlepping brains for Dr. Frankenstein. Anyway, here's another fast, sweaty segment on upcoming albums and concerts: Today we're talking Steve Martin's The Crow and Ziggy Marley's Dad tribute B is for Bob, plus Pat Benatar's June 27 show at Tropicana Field and the July 4's Amanda Overmyer-Daly throwdown at Albert Whitted Airport in St. Pete. GO HERE!