Luke Combs Is Featured In His Own SEC Football Anthem
Luke Combs has joined fellow music artists Shaboozey, Quavo, and Lenny Kravitz in bringing their own sound to promote SEC football for ESPN.
ESPN notes the campaigns are designed to resonate with diverse audiences while celebrating the traditions and rivalries that define college football.
As the 2024-25 college football season approaches, ESPN’s SEC Network will be using Luke’s cover of Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” from the tribute album Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty.
The selection of a classic rock cover performed by Combs shows the network’s effort to blend traditional themes and appeal to a broad audience of college football fans.
In other Luke news, the superstar just wrapped his 2024 stadium tour and posted a bunch of photos from the tour, including a group shot of him and his crew. He captioned the photo dump, “It’s hard to believe, but that’s a wrap on the Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour. Houston helped us close out things strong. There are a million people who helped make it happen, so I can’t name them all, but without the folks behind the scenes and you, the fans, none of it happens, so thank you. Thank you for continuing to give me the opportunity to do what I love, which is playing live country music for y’all.”
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Combs runs his own Fantasy Football league with his high school buddies, and when the season ended, Luke decided the losers must sing in front of 60 thousand of his screaming fans even if they can’t sing all that well.
Luke handed out the punishment at his show in Cincinnati recently. As you can see on the TikTok video, a fan shot of the moment below, in between songs, the country star paused his set to explain that he and his league had agreed that the losers would come out onstage and sing with him in front of thousands of people.
Combs told the crowd, “I’ve been in a fantasy football league with some of my best friends from high school for 12 years now. Last year, we decided that whoever lost was gonna have to come onstage and sing with me tonight.”
The singer’s fantasy football punishment wound up going to not one but two losers. He explained, “Lucky for me, there was a scoring issue in the last game, and my two best friends in the whole world both lost, and they both have to come out and sing in front of you guys tonight. And it’s about to happen. I’m so excited.”
He said, bringing his buddies on stage, “I want everybody to get a nice look at their blue suede shoes, because these boys are about to be walking in Memphis.” The guys sang a sad cover of Mark Cohen’s 1992 hit, “Walking In Memphis.”
