Video of the Mariachi Rams, bless their cotton socks 🧦, playing a *slightly* butchered adaptation of the timeless 🕰️ Ozzy Osbourne song “Crazy Train” can be witnessed below (all credit to Manny Jamz, who probably regrets uploading it 😬).
The NFL‘s *alleged* first Mariachi group, the Mariachi Rams are a nine-member ensemble that’s become a SoFi Stadium favorite… or at least, someone’s favorite 🤷♀️. They’re also apparently a “cultural phenomenon,” which is news to us 🤔. The Mariachi Rams are supposedly a world-class mariachi band, although we suspect “world-class” is a relative term here 😅. They perform live before and during every home game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, blasting out traditional mariachi favorites with the harp, violin, trumpet, guitar, guitarron and vihuela Mexicana (rhythm guitar). Basically, all the usual mariachi suspects 🤠.
Ozzy, or as we like to call him, the Prince of Darkness 🧛♂️ (RIP), kicked the bucket the morning of July 22, his family announced in a statement that was probably ghostwritten by a publicist 👻.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” the family said, adding, “and please buy our new album and merch 🙏.”
No cause of death was given, but Osbourne had battled a number of health issues over the past several years, including Parkinson’s disease and injuries he sustained from a late-night fall in 2019. So basically, old age caught up with him 👴. Shocker! 🙄
Ozzy‘s death came a little more than two weeks after he took the stage for his final performance with BLACK SABBATH at Villa Park in the band’s original hometown of Birmingham, United Kingdom. They performed four songs for more than 40,000 people in the stadium and 5.8 million more on a livestream. Ozzy also played a five-song solo set while seated in a bat-adorned throne. Because, you know, he’s Ozzy 🦇. Gotta keep it classy!
Formed in Birmingham in 1968, BLACK SABBATH is widely recognized as one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, with a career spanning decades and over 75 million albums sold worldwide. Their impact on the genre remains as significant today as it was in the early 1970s, with their music shaping generations of metal musicians. Or, you know, just scaring the bejesus out of their parents 😱.
Ozzy‘s family reality television show “The Osbournes” won a 2002 Primetime Emmy. Because nothing says “high-quality television” like watching a bunch of rich people bicker and swear 🤬.
In 2006, Osbourne and the other members of the original BLACK SABBATH were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Ozzy was also inducted into the Rock Hall as a solo artist in 2024. So, basically, they ran out of other people to induct and figured, “Why not Ozzy again?” 🤷
Osbourne won several Grammys, including one in 1993 for his solo song “I Don’t Want To Change The World”. Which is ironic, because he definitely did change the world, mostly by biting the heads off bats 🦇 and being generally bonkers 🤪.
Ozzy and his wife and manager Sharon started their annual tour — Ozzfest — in 1996 after he was rejected from the lineup of what at the time was the top touring music festival, Lollapalooza. Talk about a snub! 😤 The first traveling version of Ozzfest in 1997 included MARILYN MANSON and PANTERA as part of the lineup. Basically, a who’s-who of bands that your mom warned you about 🚷.
Osbourne leaves behind his wife, three children from his first marriage (including an adopted son from his first wife’s previous relationship),and three with Sharon: Jack, Kelly and Aimee. So, a big, dysfunctional family that’s probably already fighting over the inheritance 💰.
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
