This was also the theme music for almost all of NBC's sports coverage in the early-and-middle 1970's.
For golf, they'd use a slow-tempo, string-laiden version of this music (I wish someone would post it on You Tube!), and for Wimbledon tennis, they'd use a fanfare theme that NBC continued to use through their final Wimbledon broadcast in 2011.
Again, it's just an :30 second snippet, and not the entire piece which ran closer to 1 minute, give or take. It's not very 'dynamic sounding' or as punchy/sharp as it was when pristine as when used back in '67 by NBC. The voice-over narrator also detracts from (Tom Hedrick, the Chiefs play-by-play man back then - and a great one.)
All due respect friend, but no. If you read back through the comments going back months/almost a year, I stated the 1968 Superbowl III theme is NOT the same one used by NBC in 1967 for their AFL Football broadcasts/opening theme. 1968 KC Chiefs hilites, 9:12-9:42 mark therein features a short :30 second snippet of what I'm referring to (see my other post of today just below.) Thanks for your reply.
@theprizoner Oh. I didn't realize they changed the themes that often back then. I know that was NBC's MO in the Eighties and Nineties (ditto, CBS and ABC), but I had no idea they did it back in the Sixties, too.
The good news: found a short snippet the 1967 NBC AFL opening theme music (I/others had been interested in) on the 1968 KC Chiefs season highlights film. It lasts just :30 seconds & plays under the voice description but you get an idea of how it sounded. Runs from 9:12 -9:42 mark on the film (first :30 seconds are opening title & credits.)
The bad news: mine is on vhs & I have no way to transfer. If anyone has this and can upload it, we EARgerly await it's musical majesty.
Wonder who these musicians are. That sax solo is killer, and someone's fingers had to be tired after playing the clavinet that damn fast..lol great theme for sure..
I'm surprised they didn't show the Oakland Raiders in any of those clips because they were dominant during that time. Not one clip of Ken Stabler or the Raider defense.
The Raiders must have been deliberately excluded. They won their division with Lamonica in 1972 and with Stabler in 1973. Apparently, this video is from 1973.
@raiders1967 excluding the Raiders from all things NFL isn't really news to me. Lets see how many prime time games we get this year if any at all again. (eye roll)
Not a bad NBC theme - but - not as good as the snappy one NBC used back in 1967 for AFL football. Don't know the '67 theme's title or who wrote it (may have been used in '66 & '68 too), but it's the best ever in my opinion. Could hum it ("da da da da da da dah, da da da da dah da da, da da da da da dah da, da da da da da dah da dah da, dah da da da dah, dah da da da dah, dah da da da da dah, dah dah!") There, I'm sure that helped : ) Never hear it anymore/isn't part of NFL Films music.
@blank77 - Thanks for the info, but no that's not it. That music from the '71 WS was also used back in the 60's on various sports-themed programming including team season highlights football but not what NBC used (at minimum) '67 AFL TV games. I'll find what I'm referring to yet, and will post it when I do.
@soxpacker Thanks but no that isn't it. The 1967 NBC AFL game broadcast opening theme wasn't slow like the 1968 SB III clip you referenced, rather up tempo like the 1973 NBC theme. The 1967 opening used - several trumpets, timpani drums & flutes. It also was not as long as the '73 version seen/heard here - probably :50 - :60 seconds. Wasn't exclusive to NBC - it was also used 1967 This Week in the AFL highlight shows, these being non-NBC produced. Have it somewhere, just haven't found it yet.
This theme brings back a lot of memories of watching Raider football back in the 70s (being from the East Bay - I was (and always will be) a Raider fan and watched them on KRON TV 4)
@badgersushi I grew up in the east bay too, this intro was the best. Also a Raider fan, I remember the music intro being played to different nfl action clips, especially in the play-offs, they would show more clips of the two teams playing (see 1975 afc championship game intro). Those were times when the NFL was building its popularity and everything they did was special. A lot of those games you can get on dvd, the original broadcast. The good o'l days
Hearing this song the first time, all I could think of was background music to a dramatic scene in C.H.I.P.S. or some 70s TV drama. However, if they gave it a modern reinsturmentation...it could really work. Perhaps use it on a Sunday night for a throwback jersey game or something w/Al Michaels wearing a fake afro.
Now that we have NHL Hockey back on NBC, I really wish that NBC would go back to this Theme Song for their Intro for "NHL Game of the Week". How I love it very much when NBC Sports had it back when they did cover NHL Hockey back in 1974. This Theme Song was the best one ever done by NBC.
I am 43 and this is one of the greatest songs and pregame music ever!!! They need to bring back this, the NFL today song from the 70's and early 80's, and the traditional DA DAA DAA DAAAAA Monday Night Football starting theme. That would be great to hear them all again.
The Monday Night Football theme is here at YouTube. I agree with your characterization of this song as one of the greates songs and pregame music ever.
Awesome-priceless stuff! I was 9 yrs old, my team was Miami. The two things I love about this intro; was the music, and then Tommy Casanova in one the cuts shown back peddling into pass coverage. Great Video!
Haven't seen this in 36 years. Wow, what memories. Best of all I loved the Dolphins, so seeing that player dress and slap his helmet at the end was awesome. They truly don't make'm like they used to.
Bear in mind that most of the coverage in 1973 for the NFL on NBC were mostly for the Miami Dolphins and the up-and-coming Pittsburgh Steelers, depending on the time the game was played. I remember this theme music very well, and the video as well. What nostalgia too...the old San Diego Charger throwback uniforms! And these are being used today. Awesome!
I don't think I've ever seen a comment so thoroughly...negated (-7) . I made a rather innocent remark, I thought, it was my first instinct, in any case. I'm not a racial minority, but I grew up in a very diverse setting. After watching it again, I suppose I may have been too harsh, although I still see a lot of white people, because the great majority of players shown in detail, suiting up, are, in fact, white, and I don't think it matches the breakdown in that period. But I could be wrong.
Yeah, it comes off that way, but if you didn't mean it that way, then say so. Thinking back, there probably more white players in those days, but black players got the same credit for performance that they do today as far as MVP awards and stuff. No harm to me though.
How I wish I could again see some team ANY TEAM line up with two tight ends and two running backs and just run the ball. Instead we get the spread offense on third and one.
Headley62 said it all! How DO you update perfection of the Untouchable
'70's. There will never be another era like that again. I hardly believe kids today think twice about turning on an NFL game let loan have a significant player the idolize. I use to draw Jim Zorn's #10 on a white thermal long sleeve with his name across the back and wear it outside in the park to play games - IN THE BRONX NY! That's right. I also did that with Sammy White of the Vikings. We're are we now?! =(
I wish the Cleveland Browns would at least give Pittsburgh a game. Sure they have better talent, but let them know they were in a football game instead of rolling up and quiting like a bunch of pussies for Christ sake. Even if you can't beat them, make them pay for the goddamn victory. I'm tired of this shit. We hit harder in CYO.
When the NFL started with the massive rule changes in
1978, it has been all downhill since. Has anyone seen the new NFL shield logo? It looks like something from a poorly written comic strip. The old logo was perfect.
I have to respectfully AGREE with dolphinbuc 100 PERCENT!!! This s#!t called football is pure Bulls#!t at best. It is "watered down." Thank you Mr. dolphinbuc whoever you are for showing these kids that they have been robbed.
You got that right. Nothing was better than the old AFL. Remember the head slaps and bumping the recievers all over the field? Every team had two enforcers on defense. Just in case.
wow wow take me back waaaayy back! good days they were and if I had the choice I'd turn back the clock just to revisit those great days, teams, players unforgettable. I just want to be 10 again!
This theme has been rattling around my brain for months. I remember this from when it was first on, and consider it the best NFL TV theme since the mid-60s, when I started watching. Thanks immensely for posting!
I definitely rember this theme used in 75 and 76. Most memorable was the playoff game between the steelers and colts. The steelers destroyed them completely.
I wonder if any recordings still exist of the rarest version of the NBC Sports theme: Before the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics, the L.A. Philharmonic reportdely recorded for NBC a medley done in symphonic style of both "Don't Turn Away" and "Bugler's Dream", which would have been the opening music for their telecasts of the Moscow games.
The piece suposdely begins with a symphonic version of "Don't Turn Away" and then dissolves into "Bugler's Dream".
I haven't heard this theme in over 30 years, awesome! Reminds me of good times when both Raiders & A's were on top of the sports world ( & yes I'm from Oakland)
I remember when the Raiders and Steelers were the best rivalry in the NFL. The 1976 opener when George Atkinson clubbed Lynn Swann going over the middle.
The Raiders and Steelers. Holy S---T! Were those years the best. What a defense the Raiders had. Tatum, Atkinson. . .And offense? How can you forget Stabler threading a needle. Im hoping if I keep playing this, those days will come back.
Thanks for posting this. I remember this when I was a kid watching the NFL. This music is great. Our high school band, John Marshall in Cleveland, Ohio use to play this. Nice action of the Cleveland Browns!
This theme was cobbled together in a lot of different ways depending on it's use. The hockey version and Orange Bowl version seen elsewhere on You Tube ars slightly varied from this football theme. How awesome it would be to hear the whole theme uncut.
This clip is missing about two seconds up front, but the clip shown here is the longest version I remember. A shorter version (about half as long) was used for a couple years after this.
Although I think the full version was still used in the music trail right after the open as the announcers are introing the game over the establishing shot of the stadium. Have very fond memories of this music from the 1975 World Series...
If NBC decided to use this now, they'd probably muck it up with some remixed version with extra beats & such. This is sooo classic! I would jump out of my seat if they broke it out for the Super Bowl.
This music was used for almost all of NBC's sports coverage during the mid-1970's (For golf, they used a slower, string-laiden version).
The visuals were similar: A locker-room, players geting dressed, and then the action!
The font indicating the title "NBC Sports/NFL Football" and the animation revealing the title were the same font and animation that NBC News used at the time for one simple reason: NBC Sports was still part of the NBC News division in the early/mid 1970's.
This theme was great. The song that NBC used for SB's 13 and 15 was great as well. They should bring that back this year since they are televising the Super Bowl. Too bad this intro wasn't the beginning to a game that someone had to put up here.
This is fantastic! Thank you for posting it. You know how you have something stuck in your head that you swear you remember but no one gets it? This was it and now I can see it again! I remember being a little kid sitting right in front of the TV every week waiting for this intro. Thank you again for bringing it back!
I don't mind that they use an intro like they do, but why do they have to use Faith Hill? Say what you will about P!nk, she was no worse than Hank Williams Jr. Faith Hill might be.
Actually, NBC used this theme during a game's closing credits (time permitting), and there were lyrics. I can hear them now, but couldn't recite them for you. I would love for someone to post the closing credits w/theme song.
Wow that actually brought a tear. I was looking for exactly this and THANK YOU for saving it and putting it on You Tube. Brings back memories of myself as an 11-year-old perched on the ottoman in the living room waiting for the Browns to get beat again. Awesome theme and remembrance of great TV football past.
it just seemed like there was more passion in the game back then, the backs ran harder, the quarterbacks got hammered, not like todays game... bring me back.
i think passion is there today but maybe our passion has changed. speaking for myself i use to live and die with my team and live and die with what was said about my team.times have changed but so have i.great opening
I know you understand thatoffense has been the face of the league since the beginning....the powers that be want to market Football to the average person that don' know jack about Ball....What I've seen from the leagues front office as of late concerning rule changes is terrible for the game. Their handcuffing the defense and making it easier for the offense.
At the time, both news and sports used the same italic block lettering .. and in fact a number of NBC affiliates also used that same logotype on their local news shows during the period. The arrival of the infamous "N" in 1976 (I know it was on New Years Day becuase they plugged the heck out of it during their parade and bowl coverage that year) put an end to that. The block lettering and the NBC "snake" went into the retirement and for a short time, the Peacock was hibernating.
There's a very good reason NBC News and NBC Sports used the same font for titling: Until the mid-1970's, sports at NBC were under the auspicies of NBC News.
In fact, at one time, sports at all the networks were part of the news divisions.
ABC was first to separate sports from news (1961?), then CBS did it a few years later. NBC kept sports in the news division until the middle 1970's.
This song was very good! It got me excited every Sunday afternoon. But my all time favorite football intro was the one used by NBC-TV in 1968, for the American Football League. That song was super awesome! Also, the theme for Super Bowl Three, also done by NBC-TV later that football season was fantastic too!
The network would not use that theme because of money. Some people have never believed in old school openings -- like those from 1973. That may not be much of an answer; but I believe they worry too much about their ego and their prestige.
For some reason the music gets pulled by youtube every so often. I don't know what the problem is? The Hockey Night in Canada theme song can be found everywhere. And especially when this NFL theme isn't even used anymore. So whats the problem?
This was the standard intro for all games. In the good ol' days, the theme wasn't customized from week to week as NBC and ABC/ESPN do nowadays. The player suiting up, I think, is Joe DeLameillure, offensive guard for the Bills.
This was also the theme music for almost all of NBC's sports coverage in the early-and-middle 1970's.
For golf, they'd use a slow-tempo, string-laiden version of this music (I wish someone would post it on You Tube!), and for Wimbledon tennis, they'd use a fanfare theme that NBC continued to use through their final Wimbledon broadcast in 2011.
altfactor 2 weeks ago
Maybe its just romanticizing when I was a kid, but this theme sends chills down my spine! Memories of the NFL in the '70's.
67bobbyg 2 months ago
This song makes me want to put my helmet on and just punish people on the gridiron.
cindyandron 4 months ago
I really liked the original version of the theme that was first recorded by the group Midnite Flite in 1977 called "Don't turn away"
markvburns7957 6 months ago
Again, it's just an :30 second snippet, and not the entire piece which ran closer to 1 minute, give or take. It's not very 'dynamic sounding' or as punchy/sharp as it was when pristine as when used back in '67 by NBC. The voice-over narrator also detracts from (Tom Hedrick, the Chiefs play-by-play man back then - and a great one.)
Hope somebody has some luck uploading it.
theprizoner 6 months ago in playlist NFL
@theprizoner Just look up Super Bowl III - Game Intro. It has a high-quality recording of NBC's AFL theme.
KNS1996DFS 6 months ago
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@KNS1996DFS
All due respect friend, but no. If you read back through the comments going back months/almost a year, I stated the 1968 Superbowl III theme is NOT the same one used by NBC in 1967 for their AFL Football broadcasts/opening theme. 1968 KC Chiefs hilites, 9:12-9:42 mark therein features a short :30 second snippet of what I'm referring to (see my other post of today just below.) Thanks for your reply.
theprizoner 6 months ago in playlist NFL
@theprizoner Oh. I didn't realize they changed the themes that often back then. I know that was NBC's MO in the Eighties and Nineties (ditto, CBS and ABC), but I had no idea they did it back in the Sixties, too.
KNS1996DFS 6 months ago
SUCCESS!
Sorta.
The good news: found a short snippet the 1967 NBC AFL opening theme music (I/others had been interested in) on the 1968 KC Chiefs season highlights film. It lasts just :30 seconds & plays under the voice description but you get an idea of how it sounded. Runs from 9:12 -9:42 mark on the film (first :30 seconds are opening title & credits.)
The bad news: mine is on vhs & I have no way to transfer. If anyone has this and can upload it, we EARgerly await it's musical majesty.
theprizoner 6 months ago in playlist NFL
Whoops, @theprizoner - I just saw you said that wasn't it.
marquettefootball 6 months ago
This is the best intro music to football. Brings back a ton of memories when I was a kid watching the games on NBC. Great Stuff !!!!!!!
rlastrop 8 months ago
they were the good old days of nfl football they need to bring this soundtrack back.
djmikeyo09 9 months ago
There use to be an NHL on NBC one on here somewhere I can't find it...does anyone have it?
Seoulmanaja 9 months ago
Wonder who these musicians are. That sax solo is killer, and someone's fingers had to be tired after playing the clavinet that damn fast..lol great theme for sure..
buscrates 1 year ago
@buscrates Kevin Gavin
KNS1996DFS 1 year ago
@buscrates ha!!! he probably cheated and used both hands! ;) now, if it was Rick Wakeman, he could do it with one hand!!
rickfan1964 10 months ago
I'm surprised they didn't show the Oakland Raiders in any of those clips because they were dominant during that time. Not one clip of Ken Stabler or the Raider defense.
TheRetro64 1 year ago
The Raiders must have been deliberately excluded. They won their division with Lamonica in 1972 and with Stabler in 1973. Apparently, this video is from 1973.
raiders1967 1 year ago
@raiders1967 excluding the Raiders from all things NFL isn't really news to me. Lets see how many prime time games we get this year if any at all again. (eye roll)
Summerslam96 11 months ago
When I hear this, it's time for football! Who needs babes with muscle cars.
headley62 1 year ago 3
@headley62 ...who have no tits, skinny legs, a narrow ass, and mediocre singing voices.
KNS1996DFS 1 year ago 5
NBC also used this theme when they had the national NHL package back in the70's
TheTzdope 1 year ago
@TheTzdope And for their college football coverage.
dcbandnerd 1 year ago
Not a bad NBC theme - but - not as good as the snappy one NBC used back in 1967 for AFL football. Don't know the '67 theme's title or who wrote it (may have been used in '66 & '68 too), but it's the best ever in my opinion. Could hum it ("da da da da da da dah, da da da da dah da da, da da da da da dah da, da da da da da dah da dah da, dah da da da dah, dah da da da dah, dah da da da da dah, dah dah!") There, I'm sure that helped : ) Never hear it anymore/isn't part of NFL Films music.
theprizoner 1 year ago 2
@theprizoner I think NBC used the theme you're humming for their World Series coverage in the 60's and early 70's,is that correct?
Search "First World Series Night game"
And the song in question comes at the :46 mark in that video from 1971
blank77 1 year ago
@blank77 - Thanks for the info, but no that's not it. That music from the '71 WS was also used back in the 60's on various sports-themed programming including team season highlights football but not what NBC used (at minimum) '67 AFL TV games. I'll find what I'm referring to yet, and will post it when I do.
theprizoner 1 year ago
@theprizoner Okay.Took a guess about that.Now you got me interested about that AFL on NBC theme.I like to hear it,too.
blank77 1 year ago
@theprizoner this was used from 1972 to 1975
frankd1965 1 year ago
@theprizoner Search "Super Bowl III - Game Intro" That might be your song.
soxpacker 1 year ago
@soxpacker Thanks but no that isn't it. The 1967 NBC AFL game broadcast opening theme wasn't slow like the 1968 SB III clip you referenced, rather up tempo like the 1973 NBC theme. The 1967 opening used - several trumpets, timpani drums & flutes. It also was not as long as the '73 version seen/heard here - probably :50 - :60 seconds. Wasn't exclusive to NBC - it was also used 1967 This Week in the AFL highlight shows, these being non-NBC produced. Have it somewhere, just haven't found it yet.
theprizoner 1 year ago
@theprizoner Search for the original broadcast to Super Bowl III. Is it that music?
marquettefootball 6 months ago
Unfortunately, the first season I remember is the first post-merger season, 1970. I wish someone would post the theme about which you speak.
raiders1967 1 year ago
@cmills1988 what makes this intro white??
getula1964 1 year ago
This classic intro got me so pumped up, I ran outside and horsecollar tackled the 83 year old lady that lives next door.
bax323 1 year ago
this theme gets me fired up for some footbaaaaalll!!!
steelertim69 1 year ago
Best sports theme...ever! Remeber this a little, little kid
stevephil10 1 year ago
Makes me think of Curt Gowdy.
IowaRocker1 1 year ago
Boy do I love this... brings back so many memories.
bphilipb 1 year ago
Yet another great theme that I prefer over today's crappy music.
SuperCruiser72 1 year ago
This theme brings back a lot of memories of watching Raider football back in the 70s (being from the East Bay - I was (and always will be) a Raider fan and watched them on KRON TV 4)
badgersushi 1 year ago
@badgersushi I grew up in the east bay too, this intro was the best. Also a Raider fan, I remember the music intro being played to different nfl action clips, especially in the play-offs, they would show more clips of the two teams playing (see 1975 afc championship game intro). Those were times when the NFL was building its popularity and everything they did was special. A lot of those games you can get on dvd, the original broadcast. The good o'l days
PSantero 1 year ago
I remember this intro, it was such a funky montage. It always got me pumped up to watch the game!
Rickat1964 1 year ago
the hockey version used to be posted here. Haven't seen it in a while now.
gibby100 1 year ago
Hearing this song the first time, all I could think of was background music to a dramatic scene in C.H.I.P.S. or some 70s TV drama. However, if they gave it a modern reinsturmentation...it could really work. Perhaps use it on a Sunday night for a throwback jersey game or something w/Al Michaels wearing a fake afro.
marquettefootball 1 year ago
@marquettefootball No... they need to reinstate it for EVERY game. Also reinstate the NBC News theme from the John Chancellor days.
Warthog333 1 year ago
Now that we have NHL Hockey back on NBC, I really wish that NBC would go back to this Theme Song for their Intro for "NHL Game of the Week". How I love it very much when NBC Sports had it back when they did cover NHL Hockey back in 1974. This Theme Song was the best one ever done by NBC.
Jiltedin2007 1 year ago 3
Does anyone remember NBC also using this for their Hockey Games?
Jiltedin2007 1 year ago 3
@Jiltedin2007 Yeah,NBC did use this theme for hockey and Baseball,too.
blank77 1 year ago
I am 43 and this is one of the greatest songs and pregame music ever!!! They need to bring back this, the NFL today song from the 70's and early 80's, and the traditional DA DAA DAA DAAAAA Monday Night Football starting theme. That would be great to hear them all again.
m1sterhockey 1 year ago 2
The Monday Night Football theme is here at YouTube. I agree with your characterization of this song as one of the greates songs and pregame music ever.
raiders1967 1 year ago
Awesome-priceless stuff! I was 9 yrs old, my team was Miami. The two things I love about this intro; was the music, and then Tommy Casanova in one the cuts shown back peddling into pass coverage. Great Video!
bakedogg12 2 years ago
This is ridiculously cool. Made 4 years before I was born.
jdsiagian 2 years ago
Wha..! Oh G*t, what a mesmerizing song!!
jdsiagian 2 years ago
Haven't seen this in 36 years. Wow, what memories. Best of all I loved the Dolphins, so seeing that player dress and slap his helmet at the end was awesome. They truly don't make'm like they used to.
Ledgar64 2 years ago
Best NFL tv theme ever.
raiders1967 2 years ago 24
@raiders1967 ...I Agree...It Is the best NFL theme ever.
ChrisRadio 1 year ago
This video was awesome! NBC should use an updated version of this video.
biggamepaul 2 years ago 6
Bear in mind that most of the coverage in 1973 for the NFL on NBC were mostly for the Miami Dolphins and the up-and-coming Pittsburgh Steelers, depending on the time the game was played. I remember this theme music very well, and the video as well. What nostalgia too...the old San Diego Charger throwback uniforms! And these are being used today. Awesome!
OneCrazyElephant 2 years ago 2
I wish the NBC would use this for the Sunday Night Song and CBS use the 80's version of NFL Today music. Then life would be grand!!!
m1sterhockey 2 years ago 15
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IanS1018 2 years ago
Remember the Disco version of this theme. I would certainly like to hear it again. Brings me back memories from my youth.
IanS1018 2 years ago 3
The disco version is here at YouTube.
raiders1967 1 year ago
Where on YouTube can I find it?
IanS1018 1 year ago
Midnite Flite -- "Don't Turn Away"
KNS1996DFS 1 year ago
i'm with rickelz16 anyone with mlb game of week ? I know it from memory
66KIMBLE 2 years ago 2
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Look how "white" it is....patently racist from a historical perspective.
slewofdamascus 2 years ago
Not at all.
kilgatron 2 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen a comment so thoroughly...negated (-7) . I made a rather innocent remark, I thought, it was my first instinct, in any case. I'm not a racial minority, but I grew up in a very diverse setting. After watching it again, I suppose I may have been too harsh, although I still see a lot of white people, because the great majority of players shown in detail, suiting up, are, in fact, white, and I don't think it matches the breakdown in that period. But I could be wrong.
slewofdamascus 2 years ago
Yeah, it comes off that way, but if you didn't mean it that way, then say so. Thinking back, there probably more white players in those days, but black players got the same credit for performance that they do today as far as MVP awards and stuff. No harm to me though.
kilgatron 2 years ago
If anyone has the MLB game of the week intro from this era, please show. Thanks.
rickelz16 2 years ago
How I wish I could again see some team ANY TEAM line up with two tight ends and two running backs and just run the ball. Instead we get the spread offense on third and one.
rickelz16 2 years ago
Headley62 said it all! How DO you update perfection of the Untouchable
'70's. There will never be another era like that again. I hardly believe kids today think twice about turning on an NFL game let loan have a significant player the idolize. I use to draw Jim Zorn's #10 on a white thermal long sleeve with his name across the back and wear it outside in the park to play games - IN THE BRONX NY! That's right. I also did that with Sammy White of the Vikings. We're are we now?! =(
ectigers83 2 years ago
I loved this theme song NBC Sports had better when they were doing Hockey.
Jiltedin2007 2 years ago
Great theme song from the best era in NFL History, back when players were real men.
crcracker1 2 years ago 2
it was a good era in football the nfl today on cbs had a better theme though, but it's not bad.
nymike06 2 years ago
I wish the Cleveland Browns would at least give Pittsburgh a game. Sure they have better talent, but let them know they were in a football game instead of rolling up and quiting like a bunch of pussies for Christ sake. Even if you can't beat them, make them pay for the goddamn victory. I'm tired of this shit. We hit harder in CYO.
headley62 2 years ago
When the NFL started with the massive rule changes in
1978, it has been all downhill since. Has anyone seen the new NFL shield logo? It looks like something from a poorly written comic strip. The old logo was perfect.
Keep changing things NFL. You'll soon be the FFL
Fucked up football league.
headley62 2 years ago
The new NFL Shield is kinda weak.
SFFOOL76 2 years ago
Love this! And especially those old throwback San Diego Charger uniforms! A blast from my past! Thanks!
OneCrazyElephant 2 years ago
For all you kids..those are real men playing football right there.You've been robbed.The NFL has become "watered down".
dolphinbuc 2 years ago 2
I have to respectfully AGREE with dolphinbuc 100 PERCENT!!! This s#!t called football is pure Bulls#!t at best. It is "watered down." Thank you Mr. dolphinbuc whoever you are for showing these kids that they have been robbed.
ldogg1970okc 2 years ago 2
haha!!! ;) amen!!!
RICKOBEAR 2 years ago
You got that right. Nothing was better than the old AFL. Remember the head slaps and bumping the recievers all over the field? Every team had two enforcers on defense. Just in case.
NytoPitt 2 years ago
wow wow take me back waaaayy back! good days they were and if I had the choice I'd turn back the clock just to revisit those great days, teams, players unforgettable. I just want to be 10 again!
brads62 2 years ago
someone had the hockey verson on here a while back. Please re-post!
gibby100 2 years ago
This theme has been rattling around my brain for months. I remember this from when it was first on, and consider it the best NFL TV theme since the mid-60s, when I started watching. Thanks immensely for posting!
rdcuff 2 years ago
A great theme!
798389 2 years ago 3
If this doesn't get you in the mood for football,
then nothing will.
headley62 2 years ago 3
THIS THEME COOKS!!!
GREAT JOB!
navyman1924 2 years ago
I definitely rember this theme used in 75 and 76. Most memorable was the playoff game between the steelers and colts. The steelers destroyed them completely.
lookingbill1 2 years ago
A small airplane crashed in the stands right after the
game in Memorial Stadium in the 1976 playoff.
headley62 2 years ago
AWESOME!
headley62 2 years ago
Absolutely agreed, before my time but THAT was a great theme for the NFL on NBC.
juan833cheer 2 years ago 3
I will take this over Faith whatever her name is any day
sfcphilip 2 years ago 2
man i love that music brings back memories
zandor1956 2 years ago 3
Does anyone remember this being used for the NHL on NBC using hockey clips? Totally awesome too!
chluel 2 years ago 2
Yes, I do.
I wonder if any recordings still exist of the rarest version of the NBC Sports theme: Before the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics, the L.A. Philharmonic reportdely recorded for NBC a medley done in symphonic style of both "Don't Turn Away" and "Bugler's Dream", which would have been the opening music for their telecasts of the Moscow games.
The piece suposdely begins with a symphonic version of "Don't Turn Away" and then dissolves into "Bugler's Dream".
altfactor 2 years ago
I haven't heard this theme in over 30 years, awesome! Reminds me of good times when both Raiders & A's were on top of the sports world ( & yes I'm from Oakland)
no5isme 3 years ago 2
I remember when the Raiders and Steelers were the best rivalry in the NFL. The 1976 opener when George Atkinson clubbed Lynn Swann going over the middle.
headley62 2 years ago 2
The Raiders and Steelers. Holy S---T! Were those years the best. What a defense the Raiders had. Tatum, Atkinson. . .And offense? How can you forget Stabler threading a needle. Im hoping if I keep playing this, those days will come back.
NytoPitt 2 years ago 2
The "Snake" was one cool customer.
headley62 2 years ago
them was the best 2 blue collar teams also
raidernation7878 2 years ago
Hey no5isme! You old enough to remember Daryll LaMonica and George Blanda?
NytoPitt 2 years ago 2
Yes. I remember watching Blanda start a game at age 45; it was sad that all he could do was hand-off and run away from the opponents.
Thrive7 2 years ago
Yes...reminds me of the ol OAK vs. KC days of Madden and Stram. Classic intro!
Thrive7 2 years ago 4
Thanks for posting this. I remember this when I was a kid watching the NFL. This music is great. Our high school band, John Marshall in Cleveland, Ohio use to play this. Nice action of the Cleveland Browns!
headley62 3 years ago
Big question...does anyone have all or a partial version of a game close featuring the music and sung version of "Don't Turn Away" by Midnite Flite?
sportstv4 3 years ago
the guy that falls on his head, ha ha ha
raidernation7878 3 years ago
This theme was cobbled together in a lot of different ways depending on it's use. The hockey version and Orange Bowl version seen elsewhere on You Tube ars slightly varied from this football theme. How awesome it would be to hear the whole theme uncut.
gibby100 3 years ago
This clip is missing about two seconds up front, but the clip shown here is the longest version I remember. A shorter version (about half as long) was used for a couple years after this.
rdcuff 2 years ago
ur right the part from :19 to :46 was taken out after the first season and the theme was used in that condensed form after that.
gibby100 2 years ago
Although I think the full version was still used in the music trail right after the open as the announcers are introing the game over the establishing shot of the stadium. Have very fond memories of this music from the 1975 World Series...
wsr216 2 years ago
If NBC decided to use this now, they'd probably muck it up with some remixed version with extra beats & such. This is sooo classic! I would jump out of my seat if they broke it out for the Super Bowl.
Freewayjim 3 years ago
Who composed this music?
Could it have been Ed Kaheloff??
Anyone who heard it way back when never forgets it!
altfactor 3 years ago 2
Thanks to TServo2049, I can tell you that the composer is Kevin Gavin. Look up "Don't Turn Away" by Midnite Flite. I think you'll recognize it.
KNS1996DFS 3 years ago
@KNS1996DFS who had the original version??? Midnite Flite says 1977, but this says 1973.
getula1964 1 year ago
@getula1964 Kevin Gavin composed this theme, and then adapted it into the disco version.
KNS1996DFS 1 year ago
I am not sure, but it sure sounds like Frank Comstock, he did music for Jack Webb productions ie; dragnet and adam-12 ...call it an educated guess
Improvisers88 3 years ago
And now to the Orange Bowl in Miami. Here are Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis........
altfactor 3 years ago 2
This music was used for almost all of NBC's sports coverage during the mid-1970's (For golf, they used a slower, string-laiden version).
The visuals were similar: A locker-room, players geting dressed, and then the action!
The font indicating the title "NBC Sports/NFL Football" and the animation revealing the title were the same font and animation that NBC News used at the time for one simple reason: NBC Sports was still part of the NBC News division in the early/mid 1970's.
altfactor 3 years ago 2
True, they used to refer to NBC Sports as "a service of NBC News."
KNS1996DFS 3 years ago
God, I remember that!
agentx42 3 years ago 2
Or in closing credits "This has been a Sports Production of NBC News".
altfactor 2 years ago
This song was cool! Great games on NBC!
Oakland, Pittsburgh, Kansas city and
Miami!
navyman1924 3 years ago
man they need to use this instead of that new lame crap they play, THIS IS FOOTBALL GAME MUSIC AND A DAYUM GOOD INTRO VIDEO!!!
raidernation7878 3 years ago
Not a single shot of any Oakland Raiders in the video.
raiders1967 3 years ago
thats cause the year this come out Miami was on the top of the NFL world, but yes, there should be Oakland Raiders clips
raidernation7878 3 years ago
PLEASE ADD THIS instead of THE HORRIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THEME THEY USE NOW!!!!
Ranford80 3 years ago 3
Amen brother!
Freewayjim 3 years ago
This is soooo classic, I wish someone would use it today, the music/NFL theme on CBS is especially brutal.
Freewayjim 3 years ago 2
This theme was great. The song that NBC used for SB's 13 and 15 was great as well. They should bring that back this year since they are televising the Super Bowl. Too bad this intro wasn't the beginning to a game that someone had to put up here.
a7b7c78 3 years ago
This is fantastic! Thank you for posting it. You know how you have something stuck in your head that you swear you remember but no one gets it? This was it and now I can see it again! I remember being a little kid sitting right in front of the TV every week waiting for this intro. Thank you again for bringing it back!
jcristiano 3 years ago
Amen!
rdcuff 2 years ago
Why don't they use this one now instead of that DAMN female country singer...whatever her name is, Faith something
sfcphilip 3 years ago 2
I don't mind that they use an intro like they do, but why do they have to use Faith Hill? Say what you will about P!nk, she was no worse than Hank Williams Jr. Faith Hill might be.
KNS1996DFS 3 years ago
A theme song to a television program should have no lyrics whatsoever.
AaronApolloCamp 3 years ago
Actually, NBC used this theme during a game's closing credits (time permitting), and there were lyrics. I can hear them now, but couldn't recite them for you. I would love for someone to post the closing credits w/theme song.
AtomicDawg713 3 years ago
I totally agree. This is far better than the garbage on now.
raiders1967 3 years ago 3
Wow that actually brought a tear. I was looking for exactly this and THANK YOU for saving it and putting it on You Tube. Brings back memories of myself as an 11-year-old perched on the ottoman in the living room waiting for the Browns to get beat again. Awesome theme and remembrance of great TV football past.
kegbot1 3 years ago 4
Mostly by the STEELERS!!!
thelanceman 3 years ago
Yep, true that, gotta admit. The 1975 42-6 shellacking was especially remembered. But every game we'd gather around the TV hoping for a miracle.
kegbot1 3 years ago
I was 11 then too. Lived in Cleveland. I still do.
This music really got me into the football mood.
It's fantstic. It makes me want to go out on a football
field again and clean someones clock one last time.
headley62 3 years ago 2
SUPER!!!!!
navyman1924 3 years ago
it just seemed like there was more passion in the game back then, the backs ran harder, the quarterbacks got hammered, not like todays game... bring me back.
countdown2xstacy 3 years ago
i think passion is there today but maybe our passion has changed. speaking for myself i use to live and die with my team and live and die with what was said about my team.times have changed but so have i.great opening
kevinx1969 3 years ago
I know you understand thatoffense has been the face of the league since the beginning....the powers that be want to market Football to the average person that don' know jack about Ball....What I've seen from the leagues front office as of late concerning rule changes is terrible for the game. Their handcuffing the defense and making it easier for the offense.
THINGS WILL GET BETTER THOUGH. I HAVE FAITH!
TheHolySongster 3 years ago
Awesme theme, they don't make them like this anymore.
crcracker1 3 years ago 4
I thought that the NBC news and sports division was one big group and had similar introductions like that in news and special events.
minerdom75 3 years ago
At the time, both news and sports used the same italic block lettering .. and in fact a number of NBC affiliates also used that same logotype on their local news shows during the period. The arrival of the infamous "N" in 1976 (I know it was on New Years Day becuase they plugged the heck out of it during their parade and bowl coverage that year) put an end to that. The block lettering and the NBC "snake" went into the retirement and for a short time, the Peacock was hibernating.
joebradio 3 years ago
There's a very good reason NBC News and NBC Sports used the same font for titling: Until the mid-1970's, sports at NBC were under the auspicies of NBC News.
In fact, at one time, sports at all the networks were part of the news divisions.
ABC was first to separate sports from news (1961?), then CBS did it a few years later. NBC kept sports in the news division until the middle 1970's.
altfactor 2 years ago
great info ... and then of course ABC Sports ceased to exist as it was gobbled up by the self proclaimed "world wide leader" the four letter network
joebradio 2 years ago
God, BOTH NBC and CBS had awesome NFL show themes at this time...
tvgator1 3 years ago 2
Yeah, but NBC was much better. Really gets you going!
thelanceman 3 years ago 2
This song was very good! It got me excited every Sunday afternoon. But my all time favorite football intro was the one used by NBC-TV in 1968, for the American Football League. That song was super awesome! Also, the theme for Super Bowl Three, also done by NBC-TV later that football season was fantastic too!
fairnorth 3 years ago 3
WONDERFUL!
navyman1924 3 years ago 3
The following video clip from 1973 would be rated a 5. Any Questions?
Green18600 3 years ago
Yeah, why don't they use this on Sunday Night Football, that would be incredible!
SFFOOL76 3 years ago 8
The network would not use that theme because of money. Some people have never believed in old school openings -- like those from 1973. That may not be much of an answer; but I believe they worry too much about their ego and their prestige.
Green18600 3 years ago
How about a new, updated version of this music for "Sunday Night Football"??
altfactor 2 years ago 2
How does one update perfection?
headley62 2 years ago
Ive been looking for this theme! Awesome! I wish I could find the MLB one though. That was great with Boog Powell rounding 3rd base.
sc2win 3 years ago
NBC SPORTS should use this 1973 theme song, now that they have the rights to show NFL Sunday night football...Awsome theme song.
MOST550 3 years ago 6
For some reason the music gets pulled by youtube every so often. I don't know what the problem is? The Hockey Night in Canada theme song can be found everywhere. And especially when this NFL theme isn't even used anymore. So whats the problem?
berezin99 3 years ago
I wish Itunes sold it.
moose6747 3 years ago 3
anyone know how to get this piece so it can be put on an ipod?
talkin2u924 3 years ago
This was best NFL Intro music ever, and it was through whole 70's and part of 80's
moose6747 3 years ago
What game was this intro for?
chrisuncleahmad 3 years ago
This was the standard intro for all games. In the good ol' days, the theme wasn't customized from week to week as NBC and ABC/ESPN do nowadays. The player suiting up, I think, is Joe DeLameillure, offensive guard for the Bills.
rdcuff 2 years ago