Songs about sports

[Progbear]

Jane Siberry and Beau Dommage both have songs about hockey. As I'm sure many other Canadian artists do. Stompin' Tom Connors has to have at least one.

Oh, and Chris Rea’s “Tennis” is not about tennis, but about news people devoting way too much time to vapid celebrity B.S. instead of actual news.

[IMWeasel]

Pete Townsend -- Football Fugue

[Rarebird]

Here's a wonderful, strange, horrifying little song about windsurfing:

They were a Dutch band, who even had a second hit with Windsurfing time again.
They also had 2 other singles: Girls on the beach (no sport) and Let's go surfing

[spacefreak]

[thedunno]

My favorite Dutch band the Nits had a geat song about trying to get into a soccer team.

https://youtu.be/4idmnKuTHJU

[Digital_Man]

[Rarebird]

My favorite Dutch band the Nits had a geat song about trying to get into a soccer team.

https://youtu.be/4idmnKuTHJU

I don't need to look, to know it's J.O.S. days.

[Mister Triscuits]

Robert Wyatt: Team Spirit

[Tangram]

Some songs or band names that have at least a slight connection with sports...

'Fearless' (Pink Floyd, the chant at the end of 'You'll Never Walk Alone") apparently the anthem of football club Liverpool F.C.)

In keeping with the football theme: Elton John was chairman of Watford Football Club for many years. The staff and players provided backing vocals on Big Dipper and Georgia on his Single Man album.

[Camelogue]

Bruford - Joe Frazier

[markowitz]

With thanks to David Byrne for the introduction to this song:


Wikipedia:
"Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)" is a song by Jorge Ben Jor from his 1976 album África Brasil. It was later recorded by Ambitious Lovers and Soulfly. The song is about an African striker, Ben Jor's "Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)" became a well known football-related track.

https://youtu.be/lp9uZKy6H7Y

[UnephenStephen]

Rush - Marathon

beat me to it

[Digital_Man]

beat me to it

Only that Rush song is not about an actual marathon or marathons in general though. It's more of a metaphor for life.

[Garden Dreamer]

Racing and Demo Derby a sport? If so...

[clivey]

Another Motorsport reference.

[progmatist]

John Tesh's Round Ball Rock. Used as the theme song for every NBA game.....until the NBA moved from NBC to ABC.

[Garden Dreamer]

Chicago - "Old Days" mentions baseball cards.

Fu Manchu - "Sensei vs. Sensei" if we consider martial arts a sport...

[Digital_Man]

Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom which is about a woman's tennis team.