NFL on NBC

NFL on NBC intro, ca. 1973.

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Education

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• athletics
• sports

[theprizoner]

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.

[KNS1996DFS]

@theprizoner Just look up Super Bowl III - Game Intro. It has a high-quality recording of NBC's AFL theme.

[theprizoner]

@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.

[KNS1996DFS]

@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.

[buscrates]

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..

[KNS1996DFS]

@buscrates Kevin Gavin

[raiders1967]

Best NFL tv theme ever.

[m1sterhockey]

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!!!

[swany65]

This theme was always being updated through 1981 I believe. My favorite was the 1978 version, a bit shorter. It had the marching band in the video. I also liked the disco version. Brings back memories. I wouldn't mind an updated version of this song for current day NBC sports. But sadly, NBC executives don't possess that kind of vision...creatives they are not.

[altfactor]

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.

[67bobbyg]

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.

[cindyandron]

This song makes me want to put my helmet on and just punish people on the gridiron.

[markvburns7957]

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"