Over 9,000 Fans Pack Nashville’s First Horizon Park as Riley Green, Jordan Davis and More Lead Record-Breaking Rock ’N Jock Event

Riley Green, Zach Top, Priscilla Block, Jordan Davis, Zach John King, and more stepped up to the plate at Nashville’s First Horizon Park on Monday, June 1 for Folds of Honor Tennessee’s sixth annual Rock ’N Jock* Celebrity Softball game, sponsored by Black Rifle Coffee Company. More than 9,000 fans gathered at Nashville’s First Horizon Park for this year’s event, which generated an all-time high of $701,460 to support educational scholarships for the spouses and children of fallen or disabled military personnel and first responders. 

Country artists joined forces with other celebrities, athletes, first responders and veterans for the friendly competition, which found Team Military facing off against Team First Responders all in support of Folds of Honor’s mission.  

Team Military featured Team Captain Riley Green, Mat Best, Gavin Adcock, Ryan Ellis, Danae Hays, RaeLynn, Jordan Davis, McCoy Moore, Warren Zeiders, JC Latham, Jessie James Decker, Eric Decker, Cooper Alan, honorary military members Sergeant First Class Joseph C. Ervin and Army Officer Lauren Warner, and honorary base coach Special Forces Assistant Detachment Commander Dean Goble.  

Team First Responders featured Team Captain Zach Top, Roger “The Rocket” Clemens, Jay Cutler, HARDY, Ashley Cooke, Priscilla Block, Zach John King, Parker McCollum, Chris Lane, Travis Pastrana, Waka Flocka Flame, Jermaine Johnson, Robert Rausch, honorary first responders Firefighter Travis Merryman and Officer Alicean Stottlemyer, and coach Ross Chastain. 

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Ashley Cooke, who has taken part in the event for several years now told us it’s her “favorite way” to kick off CMA Fest week. 

“Every CMA Fest week is always chaos, but something about…playing a sport with people in country music. It’s fun. It’s very camaraderie based and also it’s just doing something to give back at the beginning of the week for CMA Fest. It’s a lot of shows and chaos and promotion and all this stuff, but it just feels like a cool way to give back and do something that feels good for the soul at the beginning of the week,” she shared prior to the game. 

Priscilla Block echoed her sentiments, telling us, “This is my second year back doing this so I’m pumped that they invited me again. It’s awesome to come back here. I love that everything that they do to give back and being a part of tonight is awesome and we’re excited for CMA Fest.” 

For Zach John King, the cause behind the game made it especially meaningful. 

“I have a family full of military and first responders, so it’s super close to home for me. And any way, shape, or form I can help, in my opinion, the greatest Americans in the country, is what I’m going to do. So it happened to be that we get to play a little softball today, but I’m honored to do it. The organization is insane,” he shared. 

Jordan Davis has participated in the game a handful of times and tells us he views it as a way to say “thank you” to those who give so much. 

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“I say it every year, but it’s like we get a chance to say thank you to the people and the families that are … I’m not brave enough to do what they do. And so this is my chance to come out and say thank you. Have fun and bring some lightness into what I know is a very, very heavy time for them.” 

Team Military edged out Team First Responders in a nail-biting 9-8 victory, with Danae Hays crossing home plate for the game-winning run. Eric Decker earned Defensive Player of the Game honors, while Golden Tate was recognized as Offensive Player of the Game. Fans were treated to several long balls throughout the evening, with home runs coming from Gavin Adcock, Eric Decker, Golden Tate, and Jay Cutler. 

Off the field, Riley Green and Black Rifle Coffee Company co-founder Mat Best each pledged $50,000 to Folds of Honor, contributing a combined $100,000 to support the organization’s mission. 

The event also featured several patriotic moments, including a performance of the National Anthem by Captain Jackson Perkins and a ceremonial first pitch thrown by Marine Corps veteran Rocky Sickmann, who survived 444 days in captivity during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. 

Through a partnership with Jockey International, Inc., 200 military and first responder families were able to attend the game free of charge, further cementing this year’s Rock ’N Jock as one of the event’s biggest and most meaningful editions to date.