Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)

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Jock-O-Rama (subtitled Invasion of the Beef Patrol in the liner notes) is Track 6 of the 1985 Dead Kennedys album Frankenchrist. With lyrics by lead singer Jello Biafra, it is an indictment of high school organized sports, focusing specifically on the win-at-all-costs mentality placed upon the players of American football. It is also an admonishment of what Biafra feels is the forced conformity which is placed upon all high school adolescents.

After a pep rally, which Biafra compares to a religious cult, the coach advises his team members to "Get out there/And snap the other guy's knee". The star quarterback ends up breaking his neck, likely paralyzed for life. The mourning for him is short-lived, however, as the other team members and fans, in Biafra's words, "go get wasted" to "party all night and party some more".

Some of the team members get caught drunk driving when their Trans Am "wrap[s] itself around a telephone pole". The officer, realizing their status, lets them go because "we were that way when we were young".