Run the Damn Ball – A Music Video by Jenna Paulette

Down, set, hut! Football season is finally in full swing with college teams already practicing for their week 2 games (or already rebuilding for 2025 if you’re Florida State) and the NFL starting their season tonight. What a glorious time of the year, isn’t it?

There have been plenty of country songs and music videos orbiting around football; Kenny Chesney “Boys of Fall,” “Tennessee Fan” by Morgan Wallen, and, of course, Hank Williams, Jr.’s “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” which was used for Monday Night Football for many years.

But how many football-related country songs can you think of that are performed by a woman? There’s a Megan Moroney song called “Tennessee Orange” that’s really not about football and Carrie Underwood performing the NFL Sunday Night Football theme song. In other words, Jenna Paulette is making up her own playbook and I think she scored a touchdown with her new song “Run the Damn Ball.” Check it out then scroll down for more…

Did anyone else hear this song and immediately think of the Seahawks in the Super Bowl? They had a beast of a running back and with 20 seconds to go 1 yard, it was a no-brainer. Give the ball to Lynch and you’ll be hoisting the trophy as Super Bowl champions. But they passed the ball and it got intercepted, marking one of the most embarrassing play calls of all time in the whole entire universe. All they had to do was run the damn ball!

Who am I to judge, though? One time I was quarterbacking a flag football team. We were about to win after scoring a touchdown to put us up by a point. On the 2-point conversion play afterwards, all I had to do was not throw the ball at all. So what did I do? I tried to throw it to my ex-girlfriend in the end zone. The pass was intercepted, returned all the way to the other end zone so the other team scored 2 points and won the game by a point. The game ended and so did my relationship with my girlfriend.

OK, I’m being dramatic. She and I broke up way before that game but I’m sure throwing an interception at such a critical time didn’t do anything to win her back. Actually, I know it didn’t. I haven’t spoken to her in over a decade. Football sucks.

But the video from Jenna doesn’t suck at all. She and a few of the players from the University of Texas had a lot of fun on the shoot as you can see if you check out her Instagram (@jennapaulette). Cool video, fun song, congrats to Jenna for being in rare company with a football song that many fans will be playing at tailgate parties around the country all season long.

-Out of the Wilderness

Why Taylor Swift Hasn’t Endorsed Kamala Harris – A Theory.

For a while I wondered why Taylor Swift wasn’t being outspoken in her support of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. I’m sure a bunch of people already know why, but then one day it dawned on me: She can’t endorse Kamala. Not yet, at least. While she’s dating Travis Kelce, start tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs, she needs to be hush-hush about who she’ll be voting for. Why though? If she were to endorse Kamala, that would hurt the Chiefs. Taylor is making a business decision but not one that benefits her necessarily. Most NFL fans lean to the right, politically, so the Chiefs reputation will not be colored in such pleasant ways if they are still courting the Travis / Taylor romance and Taylor is outspoken for Kamala or against Trump. Look at it this way, a lot of people already don’t like the Chiefs. If they want to win more fans, and keep the ones they have, they need to stick to the unwritten rules of keeping the base happy. Unhappy football fans means less revenue, and that folks, is the bottom line in the entertainment industry, of which the Chiefs (and all NFL teams) are part.

If (or when) Taylor and Travis break up, it won’t be long till Ms. Swift is very vocal about supporting Harris. Or if she was extremely smart, she’d jump on the Trump train. But then again, that might hurt her bottom line even if it would help the Chiefs profits.

-Out of the Wilderness

Donald Trump Is A Scab?

Democrats in Michigan called Donald Trump a “scab” as Kamala Harris spoke to union workers on the Labor Day holiday. In the background, I saw a guy wearing a shirt with that phrase… and thought to myself, “Aren’t scabs a good thing, biologically speaking?”

*proceeds to research*…

Yes. Yes, they are.

Scabs protect a wound against germs. Actually in this case, I’d have to agree with the Democrats because Donald Trump is trying to protect Americans from dirty Democrat germs. It’s yet another example of something I’m starting to believe is true about every Democrat: They claim to love science and then literally believe anything but.

Yes, I’m referring to the biology and science behind the suggestion that the fetus in a mother’s womb is not, in fact, the mother. Unless she is a freak with 20 fingers, 20 toes, and two different blood types (which *ahem* is biologically impossible but who’s keeping track anyway??).

While Harris sticks to her go-to talking points, she’s sure to include a woman’s right to choose (abortion or to give birth). It’s a thinly veiled argument for birth control but again, science and biology is not on their side. But why would they believe something that goes against their agenda? After all, they support a candidate who wasn’t voted for, and even going back to their daddy, Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for work he hadn’t even done yet as President. About this he said,

“Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the commander-in-chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.”

Maybe that’s when most of us finally realized that some things we once held in high regard are actually just a joke… like those awards show on TV. Or like recently at the Democratic National Convention when the young poet Amanda Gorman said of the convention,

“We gather at this hallowed place because we believe in the American dream.”

Hallowed??? It was the United Center, for Pete’s sake! The ONLY way that part of the poem makes sense is if she was referring to the years Michael Jordan played basketball there for the hometown team, the Chicago Bulls. Something tells me she probably doesn’t even know who Michael Jordan is, though. She was ascribing deity to politicians, which is actually weird.

Democrats will say they’re using scab as a slang term familiar with union workers, as in: a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker’s place on the job, or the like.

Using the word in this way dates back to the 16th (or 18th) century, depending on context. So let’s be very clear, the party who infamously says “we’re not going back” literally went back to a word from the 1500s!? Makes complete sense.

I’ll be voting for the scab.

-Out of the Wilderness

Las Vegas Too Old To Dream Commercial – The Yodel That Is NOT Dwight Yoakam!

During a recent college football game I heard a yodeling and immediately had to know what song was playing. As it turns out, it was a commercial for Las Vegas tourism (as if anyone didn’t already know why they should want to go to Vegas). Check out the ad then scroll down for some info about this song by a guy who isn’t Dwight Yoakam…

The Song. The soundtrack of this commercial is brought to us by Nick Shoulders. It’s his song called “Too Old to Dream.” He’s got a great folky yodel sound, incorporating the banjo along with a genuine twang in his voice. Although very distinguishable, it reminds me a lot of a favorite male singer: Dwight Yoakam. The twang at the end of a handful of words, plus the actual yodel, it’s a talent not many singers can parlay into a career but Dwight has, and I’m also thinking of Leann Rimes yodeling abilities, and Eddy Arnold’s “Cattle Call.”

Nick might be carrying the torch of yodelers of yore for the modern TikTok generation. Here’s the full track of “Too Old to Dream”…

Nick also uploaded a live, slower version and I might like this tempo better, plus Rupert the dog makes an appearance, so that puts this video over the top!

Who’s your favorite yodeler? Chime in below with your comments…

-Out of the Wilderness

Trump Flip-Flops on Amendment 4 – Florida’s Abortion Ban

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is working a move well-known among politicians: the flip-flop. It’s a characteristic as old as those veggies molding in your fridge; One day a person running for office believes one thing, the next day their stance has magically changed. It appears that this is the case in Florida where residents are going to have to vote yes or no on Amendment 4, which is about abortion. As is, Florida law prohibits abortions after 6 weeks with few exceptions. The amendment will loosen that up a bit, stating:

No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.

There’s a group in support of the amendment, asking Floridians to “vote yes on 4” (for more info click here). There’s also a movement to “vote no on 4” (click here for info). Trump stated a few days ago that he would like to add more weeks, allowing for abortions further out than 6 weeks.

But he’s come out since then clarifying his stance on the law and the amendment. Some might call it flip-flopping but it DOES appear that he would have always voted no, while still disagreeing with the 6 week marker, though.

Abortion has been a touchy subject for a long time. No one knows for sure when life starts and what even is the indicator that it’s started or not started? I fall on the side in favor of protecting the baby, the right to life… especially after doing a little bit of digging into blood type (what I found, here). That was research that will most likely forever shape my worldview on this topic. Science and biology is black and white on when the fetus is its own being.

How do you feel about Trump being a soft yes and then a hard no on amendment 4? Is it pandering or a representation of his core values? Chime in below!

-Out of the Wilderness