The kick-off to the 2018-19 season of Monday Night Football bought an additional enhance final night time (Sept. 10) throughout halftime of the late game with a tribute to Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the two-minute video that performed throughout the Los Angeles Rams/Oakland Raiders game was taped in Detroit on Sunday (Sept. 9) and featured Boyz II Men and Tori Kelly singing Franklin’s signature hit “Rock Steady.”
The footage was shot across the metropolis at iconic areas, together with Motown Record’s Hitsville, U.S.A. United Sound Systems studio and the Music Hall’s lately re-dedicated Aretha’s Jazz Cafe, proper close to Ford Field in Detroit, the place the Detroit Lions and New York Jets confronted off within the night time’s first contest. That game, a devastating loss for the house workforce, additionally featured a coin toss from one other house city icon: Eminem.
RT@BradGalli: Eminem joined the Lions because the honorary captain for the Monday Night Football coin toss. pic.twitter.com/1eUcsH0jub
— EmelML (@shadyzlover) September 10, 2018
Check out a fan seize of the tribute beneath.
Rock Steady PT II for many who missed it! #MNF @torikelly @BoyzIIMen pic.twitter.com/je1CnT7qN1
— sister elena (@hiphiptoraay) September 11, 2018
filmed one thing particular w/ the extremely proficient (& hilarious) BOYZ II MEN yesterday that airs TONIGHT on @espn!! look out for us throughout each halftimes of the monday night time soccer doubleheader—- #GENESIShalftimeshow pic.twitter.com/VhQeBI6PQd
— tori kelly (@torikelly) September 10, 2018
