Football media day has to be a drag for the players.
They’re forced to sit in a chair for more than an hour and answer more or less the same question over and over again. They talk about team expectations, personal goals, incoming freshmen and everything in between.
In short, the day is full of repetitive answers and cliché overload.
That being said, I wanted to ask the players questions that they wouldn’t get from anyone else. I wanted it so that each player’s personality would really shine through.
So I decided to steal a line from LSU’s baseball program.
Every spring, fans eagerly anticipate what each baseball player’s walk-up song will be when they step up to the plate. So I wandered from player to player, asking what they would choose if they could pick a song to play when they walked onto the field.
The answers hit all angles of the music spectrum, but a couple of songs would get quite a bit of Tiger Stadium airplay.
Sophomore running backs Spencer Ware and Michael Ford, sophomore cornerback Tharold Simon and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Ego Ferguson all chose “I’m On One,” by Drake.
Then there was the classic choice, AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” which was the preferred song of senior quarterback Jarrett Lee, sophomore offensive guard Josh Williford and sophomore offensive tackle Chris Faulk.
Redshirt freshman Brad Wing, an Australian native, decided to stay close to home.
“I’d have to go with something Australian,” Wing said. “Either the national anthem for Australia or, ‘I Come from a Land Down Under’ [by Men at Work]. I’d have to do that, the team would make me do Dougie.”
And junior kicker Drew Alleman had a little fun with the lack of contact in his daily football routine.
“I’d pick ‘Can’t be Touched,’ by Roy Jones,” Alleman said. “‘Cause I actually can’t be man.”
Montgomery said Chavis would want “one of those songs with less lyrics and a lot more