) used to play Streets at Shea Stadium (their former venue) during the top of the 1st inning when the Mets ran out onto the field.Originally posted by u2met86:The New York Mets baseball team (not the Yankees, who just won their 28th World Series
The New York Knicks occasionally play Desire during time-out breaks at Madison Square Garden.
And famously, US President Barack Obama used City of Blinding Lights as his campaign song. He cleared it with U2 in advance...
...unlike former President Ronald Reagan, who not only used Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as a campaign song without Bruce's permission, but also completely misinterpreted the song as a pro-US song when it was really a blatant anti-Vietnam War song.
Originally posted by u2met86:The New York Mets baseball team (not the Yankees, who just won their 28th World Series
The New York Knicks occasionally play Desire during time-out breaks at Madison Square Garden.
And famously, US President Barack Obama used City of Blinding Lights as his campaign song. He cleared it with U2 in advance...
...unlike former President Ronald Reagan, who not only used Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as a campaign song without Bruce's permission, but also completely misinterpreted the song as a pro-US song when it was really a blatant anti-Vietnam War song.
Originally posted by stj0691:
27th World Series. Sorry if I'm OT
, At some points the English Rugby team used to play vertigo when they scored 
Originally posted by nickbibby:For those of you outside the U.K....
Beautiful Day was used over the opening credits to ITV's coverage of the English Premiership Football when they had the rights.
I remember when coverage switched from BBC to ITV and reading on a forum somewhere (not U2start) that ITV were going to change the line "see the world in green and blue" in case any football fan felt it was biased. That line never made it to the edit over the credits.
