I'm Shipping Up to Boston

At sporting events, the song is often used as a de facto anthem for Boston.

• In rugby union, the song is used as the entrance music for Ireland, Connacht Rugby and formerly London Irish in their home games.

• The New England Patriots frequently use the song during home games.
• The Dropkick Murphys performed the song live during the NFL kickoff game in 2015 in Foxborough.
• The Boston College Eagles football team is known to play the song before kick-offs at home games.
• The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is also known to play the song before kick-offs at home games.

• The German team Greuther Fürth frequently play a German language cover version of the song at home games.
• The New England Revolution of Major League Soccer have used it as a goal song.

• The Boston Celtics frequently use the song during home games.

• In the National Hockey League, the Boston Bruins frequently use the song, usually during a break in play toward the end of the game or the start of an overtime period.
• In the National Hockey League, the song is used by the Philadelphia Flyers whenever they are about to start overtime at Wells Fargo Center, followed by a brief playing of "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses.
• The song is also used by the Finnish elite league team Helsinki IFK whenever they are about to start overtime at Helsinki Ice Hall.
• The Boston University hockey team is known to play the song during games.
• The song was featured in the EA Sports video game NHL Slapshot.

• The song was used to "pump up the crowd" before Boston Red Sox playoff games during the 2013 season. It was performed on the field by the Dropkick Murphys before game 6 of the 2013 American League Championship Series and game 6 of the 2013 World Series. (The band also performed the national anthem on both occasions.)
• The song was featured on The Boston Pops Orchestra's 2009 album The Red Sox Album.
• Jonathan Papelbon used the song as his entrance music when entering games as a closer in home games played at Fenway Park. Former New York Mets player Daniel Murphy also used it as his entrance music.

• Northern Irish player Brendan "The History Maker" Dolan uses the song as his walk-on theme in Professional Darts Corporation events.

• It is used heavily in the film The Departed.[7][8]

• A 2009 Australian Football League advertisement, In A League Of Its Own, prominently features the song.[9]
• A soundalike version written by James S. Levine is used as the theme for the TV series Rizzoli & Isles.[10]
• The instrumental part of the song was used in episode six of Luck.[11]
• The song is played in the seventh episode of the first season of Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet and over the end credits of this same episode.
• The song is played in instrumental form in episodes of the Northern Irish comedy series Derry Girls.
• The song is played in the thirteenth episode of the nineteenth season of The Simpsons. An a cappella cover of the song was also performed in the third episode of the twenty-eighth season.
• The song is played in the first episode of the thirteenth season of King of the Hill, "Dia-BILL-ic Shock".
• The song is played in the fourth episode of Kevin Can F**k Himself (as a ringtone).
• An instrumental soundalike is played in the twentieth episode of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! as chase sequence music.
• An instrumental soundalike is played in the DVD version of the South Park Imaginationland as chase music. The song itself was later used in the episode "Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special".

• The song is provided as downloadable content for the music video games Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2.
• The Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA version of the song is used in NHL 11 and NHL Slapshot, where it is used on the menus, when goals are scored, and during faceoffs during the game.