Last night, Monday Night Football turned 40. Oh, sure, it won't officially happen until the start of football season, but Hank Williams Jr., dancing girls in tight black spandex, and several hundred of his rowdy friends wearing football jerseys of many colors gathered on a steamy night in Nashville for the filming of the show's introductory song. "Are you ready for some football?!" Yes, yes, god, yes, we all are. It's boiling hot, every sport but baseball is over, and you're singing to a football-crazy city and state. But after a few thousand versions of the same song, we were also ready for some sleep. And air-conditioning, lots of air-conditioning. There's just one problem.
"Where the hell is Hank?" asks a portly woman in a pink Titans jersey standing beside me.
