Interesting how the Giants made it back to the Super Bowl on the 25th anniversary of this triumph.
The Giants have made 5 Super Bowls. In the last 4, they've been treated as underdogs after going through their campaigns the hard way.
The first appearance is the exception. They conquered throughout 1986 as they were favorites in all 3 postseason games and winning them in dominating fashion.
As Pots and Pans had been introduced earlier in the season, it was a turn back in that the signature of the presenter introducing the elements of the game during the intro was not used.
another intresting tidbit. suposedly CBS had commisiioned a song for the postgame show but ran out of time and dropped it. They asked they writer to change the opening lyric and they would use it later that year. He did and they did. The song?
One Shining Moment. The lyric alegedly chnaged was from the Original open of "the Ball is Kicked" to the "The Ball is Tipped. And we know to this day CBS closes out the NCAA basketball tournament with that song.
what an intro!! all the old 80's and early 90's intros to stuff like this remind me of an acid trip I had while watching u.s. marshals. Tommy lee jones was quite funny that night.
Great job posting.........................lifelong Giant fan who has this and the entire Super Bowl XXI on VHS. This Super Bowl was on CBS, but the next year it was on ABC, and the year after that on NBC as part of the rotation at that time, so I don`t believe thhis theme was used for another Super Bowl or for any CBS NFL game ever again. I believe this was performed by Chuck Mangione and eventually became a CBS NCAA staple to this day.
sorry to said this they did use this theme for the 1988 and 89 seasons in fact the rams 49ers nfc championship game has the theme and college football took it after th final notre dame miami for their bowl season in 1/1/89 two season afterwords
ps: my son wrote that comment not me and my proff my friend has that 89 title game on vhs
@GiantsKnck No they did not use this for NFL after this game. This theme and the theme for the previous Super Bowl they televised, Super Bowl XVIII were used as College Football themes the next season. This theme though was so highly regarded, it is still used to this day.
@Y2p731 watchu mean....dis music will get u hype for anything. cbs is tha best when it kums to promos. nbc is up there too. nd abc but fox....they lost it. they used tu be gud but now they just tryin to hard
Thank god you posted this -- I have been swearing for years to people that the CBS college theme was debuted at the Giants/Broncos Super Bowl, and everyone thinks I am nuts. I think at the time the announcers said that it was supposed to be the theme that replaced the old theme. Never heard the story of how it ended up as the NCAA theme.
They should have kept this as the NFL theme instead of college football...with maybe a little updating. But it's so much better than any NFL theme they had since.
There's multiple ways. And plenty of other people here who you could ask. (There are help forums)
First, you could use a dvd recorder which can make straight transfers of to dvd like a vcr will record to tape.
You can plug a DV capture box (such as Canopus) into the firewire input on your computer.
There are also pci capture cards. Those yield the highest possible quality but I haven't been able to get mine to work properly. My videos are mostly from Hi8 using a Pyro DV capture box.
@CTubeMan If you have a DVD player/VCR hybrid, you can play the VHS and record it onto a blank DVD. This is the only way I've tried, so I don't know if there are any better ways. Did you record the whole game or just the intro? If you did record the whole game, I'd love to see that uploaded, and I'm sure lots of other people would, as well.
What's odd is that this super bowl was supposed to use two pieces of music that CBS would later use for other sports, One Shining Moment was meant to be used at the end of the game but instead was used at the end of the Final Four were it continues
Many times when I talk to people about numbers in the millions, I will mention the number of Rose Bowls for a given figure.
For example, if a state has 2 million people, I would say that it would take about 20 Rose Bowls to take in this many people. Just watching one is quite a spectacle.
I read up on it, they got read of those seats because of the 1994 World Cup soccer. I mean the seats were blocking where the soccer sidelines were but once gone the sidelines could be done since soccer has a huge field to require.
I think they also stopped selling some of those really low seats because they were so close to the ground that you couldn't see around everyone on the sidelines.
Did you tape this from KIRO 7 CTubeMan? If so that's awesome, KIRO 7 was and is currently the CBS station where I live, always nice to see Seattle tv stuff on YT.
Not too many people remember that this theme premiered on the Super Bowl. I remember it to be almost startlingly different than the other sports themes used at the time--much more up tempo and exciting, certainly as compared to "Confidence", for example. Still a great theme, although IMO wasted on the "college" football played in the SEC. Very strong football, to be sure, but the "college" part must stay in quotes . . .
1986 was a weird year in the NFL...only two RB's in the AFC had 1,000 yards, Curt Warner of the Seahawks and James Brooks of the Bengals...the Giants and Bears were both 14-2, but the Bears got upset by the Redskins...they should let NBC cover the AFC games, and CBS the NFC games...
The more I watch this, the more I'm thinking so what if they used it for college football? The clips and the animation were awesome together. The music still kicks ass twenty odd years later. If they had had a longer version with Summerall's voiceover over the first part of this clip, this would've been the absolute gold standard for pregame intros.
I remember when they used this for the Super Bowl.. but after all these years, alI can think of College Football.. and I think at least one other time, they used a new theme on the Super Bowl only to end up using that theme for college football the following season
you are correct sir.. but, oddly this music I don't think was ever used on regular season NFL coverage. its odd to see it now with pro football because it has become so ingrained with the college game.. I want to say there was also one other CBS super bowl theme that was used for college ball before this one..
also, NBC had a really cool theme they only used during their Super Bowls in the early 80s I probably have it cassette somewhere, but would love to see it on YT
The coolest thing about football, is that, they start the road to the Super Bowl in the sweltering heat of early August...32 teams vying for a spot on the soil of football immortality...then in a process of elimination, only two teams are left on Super Sunday, then 3 hours later, the Super Bowl Champions...it's an awesome yearly ritual...
Talk about memories....I remember this vividly. Great intro to an even better game. The '86 Giants are my favorite team of all time - they spoiled me at an early age.
It just kills me that it coulda, shoulda, woulda been my Browns in this one. It's been so long ago and now I'm thinking that maybe the opening shots of the Broncos going on "The Drive" in this intro is the only time Cleveland will ever get shown on a Super Bowl opening. I didn't remember that they used the college football theme music, but I've kind of removed this particular Sunday from my brain. I didn't watch much of this SB, 'cause I was still too pissed off.
i'm a cowboys fan but the giants were dominate that year. the giants would of crushed the browns that year. the 1980 browns vs the eagles would of made an entertaining super bowl.
1986 was the true end of the Tom Landry era in Dallas. Danny White got hurt and his career was never really the same after that. It would be a couple of years before they drafted Troy Aikman with the first pick out of UCLA in the NFL draft.
yeah. i agree. the cowboys were 6-2 in 1986 going into the giants game when danny white got hurt. they went 1-7 the rest of the way. he was an under rated QB in my opinion. i liked him. but sadly, that was more or less the end of the landry era as we knew it.
I heard that the closing montage was going to be "One shining Moment" However, the postgame interviews ran long, so it was scrapped, and resurfaced later on at the 1987 NCAA Final Four. When I watched it this year, the image of Bill Parcells being doused with gatorade jumped in my mind!
Finally...the holy grail of TV sports themes is on the Internet in the clear. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Many people have been looking for this for years, so I guarantee this vid will be a hit.
One suggestion: a video capture card with relevant cables would improve both video and sound quality tremendously. Recording a TV signal using a video camera picks up the ambient noise of the room as well as your own handling noise, and small cameras are impossible to keep still without a tripod.
This was also the first Super Bowl to be presented in Dolby Surround sound, as stereo for TV came out a few years ago in 1984. Closed captioning for the game began in 1980-81. And the Giants started their Super Bowl adventure with a great win. I was too young to remember that game.
They recycled the GFX too. Unfortunately, they scrapped them around 1991-93, put new ones in '95, scrapped those, and now look at what we have! CRAP!. (I haven't seen any CBS college football games from that era, so I wouldn't know for sure.)
one shining moment was suppose to air a football highlight during the SuperBowl highlight montage, but CBS ran over programing time and the song was later used two months later in the 1987 NCAA championship. they changed the words from "the ball is kicked" to "the ball is tipped"... Thanks Wikipedia
Interesting how the Giants made it back to the Super Bowl on the 25th anniversary of this triumph.
The Giants have made 5 Super Bowls. In the last 4, they've been treated as underdogs after going through their campaigns the hard way.
The first appearance is the exception. They conquered throughout 1986 as they were favorites in all 3 postseason games and winning them in dominating fashion.
ultraback29 1 month ago
Check out Nine Trey Hooch NYG super bowl song
nia0styles 1 month ago
As Pots and Pans had been introduced earlier in the season, it was a turn back in that the signature of the presenter introducing the elements of the game during the intro was not used.
WhiteHatBobby 4 months ago
Good evening...good afternoon...east coast bias again.......and summeralls drinking
UNDERGROUND2000 4 months ago
another intresting tidbit. suposedly CBS had commisiioned a song for the postgame show but ran out of time and dropped it. They asked they writer to change the opening lyric and they would use it later that year. He did and they did. The song?
One Shining Moment. The lyric alegedly chnaged was from the Original open of "the Ball is Kicked" to the "The Ball is Tipped. And we know to this day CBS closes out the NCAA basketball tournament with that song.
paulsonj72 4 months ago
This was the first use of the CBS Sports college football theme music....
mhking 6 months ago
damn this was before i was born
dweinberg21 7 months ago
CBS had the best intros.
Nothing was or is as good.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 9 months ago
Eli Manning (Peyton's youngest brother) of the New York Giants.
CraigFoye80 1 year ago
elway vs. simms!! AND SIMMS OWNZ
Jean0987654321 1 year ago
Best football theme of all time.
chalklounge 1 year ago
they use this song for college games now
MGiants82 1 year ago
RICH KARLIS!
GrassValleyGreg 1 year ago
what an intro!! all the old 80's and early 90's intros to stuff like this remind me of an acid trip I had while watching u.s. marshals. Tommy lee jones was quite funny that night.
303Smilezzz 1 year ago
GO GATORS
Jean0987654321 1 year ago
Great job posting.........................lifelong Giant fan who has this and the entire Super Bowl XXI on VHS. This Super Bowl was on CBS, but the next year it was on ABC, and the year after that on NBC as part of the rotation at that time, so I don`t believe thhis theme was used for another Super Bowl or for any CBS NFL game ever again. I believe this was performed by Chuck Mangione and eventually became a CBS NCAA staple to this day.
jdbaes 1 year ago
sooooo cooool !
FlipSport1 1 year ago
sorry to said this they did use this theme for the 1988 and 89 seasons in fact the rams 49ers nfc championship game has the theme and college football took it after th final notre dame miami for their bowl season in 1/1/89 two season afterwords
ps: my son wrote that comment not me and my proff my friend has that 89 title game on vhs
GiantsKnck 1 year ago
@GiantsKnck no, NFL coverage used the "Pots and pans" for the rest of the decade.
dalekusa 1 year ago
i belive they used this theme till super bowl 24
GiantsKnck 1 year ago
@GiantsKnck No they did not use this for NFL after this game. This theme and the theme for the previous Super Bowl they televised, Super Bowl XVIII were used as College Football themes the next season. This theme though was so highly regarded, it is still used to this day.
jerseyfla 1 year ago
I believe this theme was introduced on this broadcast. I distinctly remember being startled by how different and good it was.
paliesq 1 year ago
This music does not fit pro football at all. Glad CBS uses for college football.
Y2p731 1 year ago 10
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@Y2p731 watchu mean....dis music will get u hype for anything. cbs is tha best when it kums to promos. nbc is up there too. nd abc but fox....they lost it. they used tu be gud but now they just tryin to hard
preadata2007 1 year ago
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Y2p731 1 year ago
@Y2p731 This music only fits, IMHO, for a Super Bowl.
It should only have been used for CBS's Super Bowl games.
altfactor 1 month ago
Even though I was only a kid in the 80's I miss those days.
theone2225 1 year ago
Thank god you posted this -- I have been swearing for years to people that the CBS college theme was debuted at the Giants/Broncos Super Bowl, and everyone thinks I am nuts. I think at the time the announcers said that it was supposed to be the theme that replaced the old theme. Never heard the story of how it ended up as the NCAA theme.
weebp08 1 year ago
They should have kept this as the NFL theme instead of college football...with maybe a little updating. But it's so much better than any NFL theme they had since.
marquettefootball 2 years ago
Did you record this with a video camera pointed at a tv screen? If so was it with an old camera back then or was it recent.
Knightmessenger 2 years ago
Yes, I did this last year.
CTubeMan 2 years ago
Then what was this playing on, a tape? How did it have the the opening list of UHF translators?
Do you not have something to convert to digital?
Would it be possible to get an audio file of this?
Knightmessenger 2 years ago
I recorded this live in January 1987. What kind of digital converter would you recommend?
CTubeMan 2 years ago
There's multiple ways. And plenty of other people here who you could ask. (There are help forums)
First, you could use a dvd recorder which can make straight transfers of to dvd like a vcr will record to tape.
You can plug a DV capture box (such as Canopus) into the firewire input on your computer.
There are also pci capture cards. Those yield the highest possible quality but I haven't been able to get mine to work properly. My videos are mostly from Hi8 using a Pyro DV capture box.
Knightmessenger 2 years ago
@CTubeMan If you have a DVD player/VCR hybrid, you can play the VHS and record it onto a blank DVD. This is the only way I've tried, so I don't know if there are any better ways. Did you record the whole game or just the intro? If you did record the whole game, I'd love to see that uploaded, and I'm sure lots of other people would, as well.
nygiantsfan6 1 year ago
What's odd is that this super bowl was supposed to use two pieces of music that CBS would later use for other sports, One Shining Moment was meant to be used at the end of the game but instead was used at the end of the Final Four were it continues
professorintellect 2 years ago
yeah and also the lyric goes was the ball is kicked to the ball is tipped and the rest is history on CBS
thedude19766 1 year ago
Why are they using the SEC on CBS music?
glory789 2 years ago
Because that's where this theme debuted.
fatmanfiftythousand 2 years ago 2
Many times when I talk to people about numbers in the millions, I will mention the number of Rose Bowls for a given figure.
For example, if a state has 2 million people, I would say that it would take about 20 Rose Bowls to take in this many people. Just watching one is quite a spectacle.
ultraback29 2 years ago
Kind of amazing that the stadium could put 105,000 and now the Rose Bowl can only only put out 90,000 to 95,000 during the Rose Bowl.
redmustang03 2 years ago
It's simple, they removed some of the bleachers and put in real seats in part of the stadium.
shaunnol 2 years ago
I read up on it, they got read of those seats because of the 1994 World Cup soccer. I mean the seats were blocking where the soccer sidelines were but once gone the sidelines could be done since soccer has a huge field to require.
redmustang03 2 years ago
I think they also stopped selling some of those really low seats because they were so close to the ground that you couldn't see around everyone on the sidelines.
untexan 2 years ago
Kiro 7! Odd?
AutoRockinRacing94 2 years ago
I kno the theme was orginally used for this but SEC #1 only BCS confrence with the theme. go vols
RockyTop4Life 2 years ago
Did you tape this from KIRO 7 CTubeMan? If so that's awesome, KIRO 7 was and is currently the CBS station where I live, always nice to see Seattle tv stuff on YT.
Nickle98499 2 years ago
Not too many people remember that this theme premiered on the Super Bowl. I remember it to be almost startlingly different than the other sports themes used at the time--much more up tempo and exciting, certainly as compared to "Confidence", for example. Still a great theme, although IMO wasted on the "college" football played in the SEC. Very strong football, to be sure, but the "college" part must stay in quotes . . .
paliesq 2 years ago
This was the first time CBS used this theme music. It didn't become the college football theme until the next fall.
jmanier 2 years ago 2
1986 was a weird year in the NFL...only two RB's in the AFC had 1,000 yards, Curt Warner of the Seahawks and James Brooks of the Bengals...the Giants and Bears were both 14-2, but the Bears got upset by the Redskins...they should let NBC cover the AFC games, and CBS the NFC games...
Kingbub09 2 years ago
The Giants won 3 Super Bowl. Can they win their 4th ring in their final season at Giants Stadium?
TimFrith24 2 years ago 2
Doesn't look like it!!!
jaboo82681 2 years ago
Broncos fan. I just remembered how hard it was to watch 3 Super Bowl losses in 4 years. Ugh.
topoisomerace 2 years ago
How different is that game if Karlis didn't miss the shortest FG in Superbowl history?
Denver had all the momentum and the lead, that miss took the wind out of their sails.
MrSeattlehawk94 2 years ago
how about they failed to punch it in from the 1 yard line 3 times on that series
crawford371 2 years ago
Lots of teams get stopped on the 1......That missed FG was what killed them
MrSeattlehawk94 2 years ago
The more I watch this, the more I'm thinking so what if they used it for college football? The clips and the animation were awesome together. The music still kicks ass twenty odd years later. If they had had a longer version with Summerall's voiceover over the first part of this clip, this would've been the absolute gold standard for pregame intros.
jrbor76 2 years ago
I remember when they used this for the Super Bowl.. but after all these years, alI can think of College Football.. and I think at least one other time, they used a new theme on the Super Bowl only to end up using that theme for college football the following season
joebradio 2 years ago
During the pre-FOX days, it was sort of portocall for CBS & NBC to change/update their NFL themes come Super Bowl time.
TMC1982Part2 2 years ago 2
you are correct sir.. but, oddly this music I don't think was ever used on regular season NFL coverage. its odd to see it now with pro football because it has become so ingrained with the college game.. I want to say there was also one other CBS super bowl theme that was used for college ball before this one..
also, NBC had a really cool theme they only used during their Super Bowls in the early 80s I probably have it cassette somewhere, but would love to see it on YT
joebradio 2 years ago
@joebradio " I want to say there was also one other CBS super bowl theme that was used for college ball before this one.."
You are absolutely right. The 1984-87 college football theme was used for SBXVIII before it was used for the college game.
bmasters1981 1 year ago
I meant to say "protocol" (sorry for the typo)!
TMC1982Part2 2 years ago
The coolest thing about football, is that, they start the road to the Super Bowl in the sweltering heat of early August...32 teams vying for a spot on the soil of football immortality...then in a process of elimination, only two teams are left on Super Sunday, then 3 hours later, the Super Bowl Champions...it's an awesome yearly ritual...
Kingbub09 2 years ago
Talk about memories....I remember this vividly. Great intro to an even better game. The '86 Giants are my favorite team of all time - they spoiled me at an early age.
lyeball 2 years ago
the whole game of superbowl XXI was on utube at 1 point but it was removed because of copyright cliams by the nfl
TXCCAM 2 years ago
It just kills me that it coulda, shoulda, woulda been my Browns in this one. It's been so long ago and now I'm thinking that maybe the opening shots of the Broncos going on "The Drive" in this intro is the only time Cleveland will ever get shown on a Super Bowl opening. I didn't remember that they used the college football theme music, but I've kind of removed this particular Sunday from my brain. I didn't watch much of this SB, 'cause I was still too pissed off.
ytownteddy 2 years ago
i'm a cowboys fan but the giants were dominate that year. the giants would of crushed the browns that year. the 1980 browns vs the eagles would of made an entertaining super bowl.
nymike06 2 years ago 2
1986 was the true end of the Tom Landry era in Dallas. Danny White got hurt and his career was never really the same after that. It would be a couple of years before they drafted Troy Aikman with the first pick out of UCLA in the NFL draft.
JJGSeven13 2 years ago
yeah. i agree. the cowboys were 6-2 in 1986 going into the giants game when danny white got hurt. they went 1-7 the rest of the way. he was an under rated QB in my opinion. i liked him. but sadly, that was more or less the end of the landry era as we knew it.
nymike06 2 years ago
I heard that the closing montage was going to be "One shining Moment" However, the postgame interviews ran long, so it was scrapped, and resurfaced later on at the 1987 NCAA Final Four. When I watched it this year, the image of Bill Parcells being doused with gatorade jumped in my mind!
seanpatf 2 years ago
that's true there
thedude19766 2 years ago
Man, CBS and the NFL was good and still is.
randys24 2 years ago
Finally...the holy grail of TV sports themes is on the Internet in the clear. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Many people have been looking for this for years, so I guarantee this vid will be a hit.
One suggestion: a video capture card with relevant cables would improve both video and sound quality tremendously. Recording a TV signal using a video camera picks up the ambient noise of the room as well as your own handling noise, and small cameras are impossible to keep still without a tripod.
devswartz 3 years ago 8
Man, that is so weird seeing that music with NFL football! Love that theme, though! Absolutely timeless!
jasonbondshow 3 years ago
Thanks for the memories.
I have the game on tape and this makes me want to find it and play it.
Go Giants!
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 3 years ago
Awesome! That takes me back.
Roark86 3 years ago
This theme was the start of something big my friends...very big.
rickyphoenix 3 years ago 2
This theme is the CBS college footbal song which was new on SUper Bpwl 21.
generationll 3 years ago
This was also the first Super Bowl to be presented in Dolby Surround sound, as stereo for TV came out a few years ago in 1984. Closed captioning for the game began in 1980-81. And the Giants started their Super Bowl adventure with a great win. I was too young to remember that game.
kascnef82 3 years ago
WOW Isn't this the theme CBS still uses for college Football?
jaboo82681 3 years ago
Yes.
CTubeMan 3 years ago
They recycled the GFX too. Unfortunately, they scrapped them around 1991-93, put new ones in '95, scrapped those, and now look at what we have! CRAP!. (I haven't seen any CBS college football games from that era, so I wouldn't know for sure.)
MrLogoman007 2 years ago
This song does not go with the NFL, the beat of this classic song has a band like sound....college's have bands, so it is more appropriate used now.
CBS was really bringing out the good high-tech graphics for this game, the wire frames were innovated for those days standards.
rswilso10 3 years ago
I'm glad CBS still uses that music. It's timeless! I hope it doesn't make any major changes to it. CBS has a good thing going there.
marcus813 3 years ago 3
you're the man
crawford371 3 years ago
You mean with the opening to "One Shining Moment"? Yes, I have that at the beginning and end. I may post it, stay tuned.
CTubeMan 3 years ago
one shining moment was suppose to air a football highlight during the SuperBowl highlight montage, but CBS ran over programing time and the song was later used two months later in the 1987 NCAA championship. they changed the words from "the ball is kicked" to "the ball is tipped"... Thanks Wikipedia
rswilso10 3 years ago
do you have the closing credits with the piano playing
crawford371 3 years ago
sweet!
crawford371 3 years ago
Does anybody else get goosebumps when they hear this whole theme? (Yes, I know I 'm commenting on my own video, this is partially a test.)
CTubeMan 3 years ago