The Pool Party

The Pool Party
Jim, Megan, Eli, Esther, Eden and Olive

23 December 2007

Irony

So I'm watching Sunday Night Football tonight and this pretty cool Gatorade commercial comes on, about clutch players and plays and all that - Peyton Manning, Dwayne Wade, etc.  Check out the website here.  besides the came work, one of the things that's interesting is the song.  it has played in several films, including the closing scene to "First Knight."  I always liked the song and so I decided to harness the power of the internet to find it.  Turns out some other guy wasting away his Sunday night had the same thought and his question to Yahoo! led me to the answer.  The song is called "Carmina Burana (O Fortunata)."  Here's the irony: this commercial promoting all these famous, big-money-making players chose as their theme music a song that is all about the fickleness of fortune and wealth, as well as the lifestyle of that usually attends it.  Check out the wiki on it.  Now that's rich.

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