CBS Sports Open Animations early 80s

[xxfrandsxx]

gotta love that 80's "sweep over the logo before actually showing the logo" thing.

[jaycordova]

Curious where you got all of this. I have a lot of it clean from 1" tape (all the Feigenbaum stuff for sure), but I do not have everything you have here. I think I've got one or two CBS items posted but have a large library. Nice collection of stuff you have in this single clip. I have the Cranston/Csuri items, but only on VHS. Do you have all of this on 1" or did you dub/digitize from 1" to some other high quality format?

[bakerandbaker1]

the cbs college football theme from this era: so underrated

[hamursh]

I think Cranston Csuri Productions worked on some of these intros.

[Survivor87]

NBA on CBS = the best and it happened to cover exactly the greatest years of the NBA, 75-90

[Tubewings]

Does anyone know when the NFL on CBS used the "Emmy" opening?

[bakerandbaker1]

From at least 1982 to 1986, where they switched to the "Pots and Pans" intro in Week Four of their coverage.

[Tubewings]

@bakerandbaker1 I meant when they had the Emmy statuettes in that particular opening.

[bakerandbaker1]

Actually, just double-checked. The "Emmy" intro was actually used from 1981 to Week Two of the NFL regular season in the fall of 1986.

[huskobon]

Awesome raw animations.

[KNS1996DFS]

I think that CBS won a Sports Emmy for its NFL coverage, but I can't be sure. If only the could somehow indicate this in their onscreen graphics...

[bmasters1981]

Another thing I wonder: about the CBS Sports opening ID with "Presents" in magenta in a Colonial-type font (which was, according to this clip, used for college hoops)-- was that the only place where that version was used?

[ChristianKidsShowFan]

The IROC intro at the beginning reminds me a bit of the 1980s Hello News intro used by WXIA.

[UNCJerry77]

Love the NCAA Basketball theme! Close second would be the NBA on CBS theme.

[Misterioso]

Computerz graphhics was teh futurez!!!!!!

[Railfan2103]

Thank you very much! Great quality!

[reachforthetop9]

I never noticed that subtle nod to the Emmy Awards CBS won for it's NFL coverage! Kind of self-promoting, but cool!

[bmasters1981]

I liked how the "CBS Sports NCAA" title card was formed, with the animated arena segmenting off, and three of the segments forming the "NCAA" portion of the title, with the hoop and backboard disappearing, and the basket and ball coming in from the right and the CBS Sports horizontal logo coming down from the top; the title then flashed.

[bmasters1981]

I'm glad that this was posted. The ones from 80stvthemes were good, but very low quality. Now, with this clip, I can see them exactly as they looked on television then.

[marcus813]

Thanks for posting this! I loved watching CBS' intros back in the day and it's nice to see them again. They had the best intros in the sports TV biz.

[BennyHarassi]

holy shit its so real

[CaptainHenroyMorgan]

Hooray for upbeat music and 3d objects moving from one place to another! ah, the 80's. someday, people will be making fun of the 00's.

[EmceeNolan]

The 2000's are so awful people will more likely be crying than laughing.

[bludhound]

Awesome video. Brings back memories. The music is awesome too.

[RedRanger999]

totally rad!

[jahiln]

Are we sure this from the early 80's and not mid 80's or early 90's? Hard to believe these intros would have CGI at a time where movies like Tron and the Last starfighter could barely pull it off.

[RashaTwain]

I don't see why not? Their mostly simple vector graphics with textures.

[EmceeNolan]

The NFL one is from 1981-1986. I know this for a fact.

[marcus813]

It was slightly different in 1981 & 1982. It was dumped after January 1986 for "pots & pans."

[EmceeNolan]

It was still in use at least in week 1 of 1986--I have the 49ers/Bucs season opener from that year with that theme used. They obviously switched over some time in the middle of the season.

[marcus813]

Can you upload the 49ers-Bucs open? As a longtime Bucs fan, I'd love to see it.

[EmceeNolan]

I'll see if I can.

[devswartz]

Well, this is why CBS is known as the Tiffany Network. They heavily invested in computer graphics technology, and these were WAY ahead of their time. Most of these debuted from '81 to '84, and, except for the college football/Super Bowl XVIII open, they were all done by Bill Feigenbaum. The college football open was done by another legend, Cranston-Csuri, who would later create the incredible Super Bowl XXI/CBS College Football open that was used through the mid '90s untouched.

[slinkyskunk]

DVNO!

[coryhotline]

killer... oh so good

[rustyshackleford01]

Oh, btw, these alone are an amazing find. Great stuff to see

[rustyshackleford01]

Do you know where I can find any of those old IROC races like where the first clip came from? It'd be amazing to find some

[nicholasm79]

Isn't anyone glad just to get to see these instead of rambling off making requests?

[cbh316]

Do you have a full version of the NBA theme? That is awesome quality.

[johnnyafairbanks]

FINALLY!! I had most of these in low-quality (thanks to the '80s TV Themes Supersite), but not anymore!

[Market42Fan]

Is that site still up? Nice to see some of this in the clear.

[johnnyafairbanks]

Not anymore; I used to download videos like these from that site in poor quality, but when better quality versions began popping up on YouTube I got rid of 'em!

[skykid3000]

Do you have a clean version of the later NBA Intro CBS used in their final year of covering the NBA?