Here We Go: Updated Steelers Fight Song Released for 2025 Playoffs
The Pittsburgh Steelers are headed back to the playoffs, and that means a new version of one of the team’s longest-running fight songs has been released. “Here We Go” was first written by Roger Wood in 1994, and he releases an updated version every time the Black and Gold are playoff-bound.
This year’s version, released on Sunday, includes new lyrics to recognize quarterback Russell Wilson and safety DeShon Elliott.
Other lyrics recognize George Pickens, Pat Freiermuth, Jaylen Warren, Najee Harris, Chris Boswell, Alex Highsmith, Cam Heyward, T.J. Watt, Minkah Fitzpatrick and Joey Porter Jr.
The song’s basic structure has remained the same since it was first introduced in 1994, but some sayings — like the iconic “this is the year we’ll get that one for thumb” line, have changed as the Steelers have gone from four to five to six Super Bowl titles.
The Steelers have a long history of musical associations. The original Steelers Fight Song was a polka by Jimmy Pol that came out in 1973 and has been played in various versions ever since. The Steelers have recently been playing that song before pregame introductions and after touchdowns at Acrisure Stadium.
Since 2002, the Steelers have played the 1978 Styx song “Renegade” in the fourth quarter before a defensive drive, with a slow-motion video montage of defensive plays set to the song’s choral introduction.
In 2012, the Pittsburgh Steeline drumline performed at a Steelers home game for the first time, and that unit has been an Acrisure Stadium staple ever since.
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