Tag: Jimmy Eat World

Jimmy Eat World credited itself for the Ravens’ second-half explosion after playing at halftime

You never know what happens when Jimmy Eat World plays in … The Middle … of your NFL playoff game.

Maybe all the Baltimore Ravens needed to get past the Houston Texans in the AFC divisional game was a stellar performance from quarterback Lamar Jackson and a Jimmy Eat World show at halftime.

Indeed, the alt-rock band best known for hits like “The Middle” and “Sweetness” played during the game break of the Ravens playoff game at M&T Bank Stadium.

After their set, the Ravens fired back from a 10-10 tie with 24 unanswered points and a 34-10 victory to advance to the AFC championship game.

Did Jimmy Eat World really help spark the Ravens’ outstanding second-half performance? Well, the band sure seems to think so.

This is just amazing, and it’s undoubtedly going to get the band some additional invitations to play during NFL playoff halftimes in the future.

The Ravens need to rally behind Jimmy Eat World for the rest of their playoff run. That’d be a heck of a combo between football and music to us.

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The Florida Panthers were thoroughly roasted by Jimmy Eat World as the team looks for a new goal song

Everything, everything is not alright, alright in Florida.

For years, the Florida Panthers have used “Sweetness” — a song from the mid-90s teenage angst band Jimmy Eat World — as the celebratory track for each of their goals. During the 2021-2022 season, opponents heard “Sweetness” played 340 times as Florida, owners of the NHL’s best record, also led the league in scoring.

But for as much as Jimmy Eat World might hold a special place in the heart of every millennial trying to find themselves in this crazy little world of ours, it’s admittedly a little melodramatic for a moment that’s supposed to be celebratory.

As a result, the Panthers, fresh off a second-round sweep at the hands of the in-state rival Lightning, are in the midst of a search for a new goal song heading into next year. And when some Panthers fans tried to organize a petition to keep “Sweetness” as the de facto theme of their beloved hockey squad, it got the band’s attention.

In the funniest, most savage way:

Oh. My. Goodness. I mean, are they wrong? But still: My goodness!

Clearly, whoever runs the band’s Twitter account (Jim Adkins, hello! Answer my many emails, please!) was not in the mood to deal with a hockey team that wants to cut ties with them:

“Bye now! See you later! You won’t be missed,” Jimmy Eat World, probably (definitely).

It’s worth noting that another top NHL team, the Colorado Avalanche, have used a song to electrify their home fans in third periods. By pure coincidence, it happens to be a tune from the same general era of music as Jimmy Eat World: Blink 182’s “All The Small Things.”

Of course, that has little to do with the feud Jimmy Eat World now carries with the Panthers.

The band now definitely thinks Florida should write itself off yet.

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