Food for thought

Tuesday Morning Quarterback weighs in on the new Nike commercial that puts NFL stars in fictional Briscoe High School:

TMQ also declared himself puzzled that the Briscoe High spot uses "Spirit in the Sky" as its music track. Yes this is a catchy tune, and yes it is heard in football movies, prominently in "Remember the Titans." But the song is, after all, about dying and meeting Jesus!

Note that Nike manipulated the track so you hear its many references to dying but never hear the name Jesus. (Play the commercial here; the song lyrics are here.)

That a big corporation thinks it's fine to subliminally associate military-age young men with glory in death, but not fine to associate them with history's most important pacifist, creeps me out.

Anyway, comes now reader Mary Beth Calorama of Venice, Calif., to report Norman Greenbaum was not, as everyone thinks, a one-hit wonder. He was a two-hit wonder: under the name Dr. West's Medicine Show, Greenbaum recorded the cult hit "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago," one of TMQ's all-time favorite songs.

Read all of TMQ here.