CBS Sports Open Animations early 80s

From CBS, here are the clean versions of the opens for IROC, NBA, NFL, College Football, CBS Sports Saturday, NCAA Basketball and US Open Tennis. What you see here is just the animations and music, they would later be mixed with game footage and soundbites to produce the actual game opens.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• CBS
• Sports
• Open
• Animation

[nicholasm79]

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

[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.

[CraigFoye80]

Gotta love this one at 1:41!!

[xxfrandsxx]

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

[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.

[Tubewings]

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

[bakerandbaker1]

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

[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?