Falcons put out a lame hype song for the new season and were promptly roasted for it

Listen, 2022 is going to be a season of growth for the Atlanta Falcons. They have some good young pieces to build around, but there’s still a lot more building to be done.

Knowing they’ll be bad on the field, you would think they’d want to be good at everything else. But apparently not. On Friday, the Falcons released a hype song for the new season featuring singer and actor Rotimi, and it did everything but get fans hyped.

This isn’t a knock on Rotimi, who I like. But the song tries too hard. The repeating of the team colors in the chorus just reeks of an attempt to make the Falcons’ version of Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow.” But Black and Yellow didn’t try to be a Pittsburgh anthem. It just happened to be good enough that it was adopted as one. Oh, and it helps that Wiz is actually from Pittsburgh.

Rotimi isn’t even from Atlanta! Why is the faux-anthem of a team in one of the most musically-inclined cities in America being sung by someone who is from *googles* New Jersey?! This was just all bad, and fans let them know about it.