The Best Football Fan Raps →

I spent a lot of last week putting this together. Sadly, it required kind of a lot of research, but I was tasked with creating a comprehensive history of the NFL fan rap for Adult Swim.

It started as a thing players did for themselves in the 80’s — see the aforementioned “Super Bowl Shuffle” — and fell out of favor in the 90’s. That part has been documented before, but did you know that the modern era of football fan raps traces back to… Seattle in 2005? It was the perfect storm: The Seahawks in the Super Bowl for the first time, YouTube as a distribution means; the technology that meant that every fan in a bedroom could suddenly produce a track that sounded halfway competent.

From there, this shit is cray — there’ve probably been 5-6 new Giants/Patriots raps uploaded to YouTube per hoursince Championship weekend. If you want to see how the form has evolved from “Let’s Ram It” to “Arizona Diss Rap,” click the link, y’all.