More Kenny for My Friend

More info for Mesha, Apparently Kenny has written a song for ESPN for them to air with their broadcast....you know I can't wait to hear it!!

"I was a cheerleader in college, so I've done my time on the sidelines and at countless pep rallies. We'd always be pretty moved watching the team give the game everything they had. But I've never been as moved as I was when I heard Kenny Chesney's "This Is Our Moment." It's the song he put together for ESPN that will debut during the College Football Kickoff Weekend on Thursday (Sept. 3). When you hear it, you'll hear how he finds these parallels between his attitude and that of the players.

When he opens the tune with hard-charging guitars and "We've been sweatin' our whole life long, just to get this right/It's a work hard, hit hard struggle, it's a sacrifice," you aren't really sure who exactly he's talking about. Because that struggle and sacrifice is one both artists and athletes know well. The good ones, anyway.

Then it all starts to make sense. He's talking about the football players, right? Because he says it's time to blow it up, time to lock and load, time to take the field, time to start the show. And the chorus, about "This is our moment/This is our time/And we ain't holding back, we're laying it all on the line/This is our destiny/It's our night to shine," feels like it's all about the team and how hard they've worked for this chance to go out and do what they've practiced so long and hard for.

But can't the same be said of Chesney and his sport? Yes, and so it goes in the second verse when he touches on the motivation for making music (pretty girls) and how his moment arrives when it's time to turn it up, time to rock 'n' roll, time to take the stage, time to start the show. With just one listen you'll sense how well Chesney has captured, both musically and lyrically, the energy, passion, drive and anticipation that athletes and artists feel right before they take their kind of field. That is their moment. "