NFL '85 Open

This was the opening theme of NBC's NFL '85 pregame show. It featured a different trio of highlights from games previously televised by NBC each week.

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Sports

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• NBC
• 1985
• NFL
• pregame
• Bob Costas
• Minnesota Vikings
• Ahmad Rashad
• Pittsburgh Steelers
• Franco Harris
• Super Bowl XIII
• football
• Charlie Jones
• Curt Gowdy
• Washington Redskins
• John Riggins
• Super Bowl XVII
• Dick Enberg
• Metropolitan Stadium
• Orange Bowl
• Rose Bowl
• highlights

[TheRetro64]

Not only did you see highlights of those classic games, but you heard the voices of Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson, etc. That's another reason I liked those openings.

I remember they used a clip of a Chargers-Broncos game from 1985, where Denver won in overtime when they blocked a field goal attempt and ran it all the way for a touchdown. The announcer described it this way, "Again it is blocked..again it is blocked..hold everything...what a turnaround!! What a turnaround!!"

[Sportbuff99TV]

@TheRetro64 That announcer was Phil Stone. I have that opening. It was part of several weeks of highlights I strung together from NFL '86 openings. I will be uploading it in the days to come. I've just had so many requests I've been trying to get to, that it's taken a back seat. But I will get it on the channel at some point. I love those highlights!

[B2B76]

Epic opening NBC always had, gives me chills. Remember when they routinely played the Jets beating Miami in OT 51-45 in 1986 on a long bomb from Ken O'Brien to Wesley Walker, one of the best regular season game ever, loved the NFL on NBC.

[Sportbuff99TV]

@B2B76 If everything goes well, I'll have that O'Brien to Walker bomb in a highlight package in the near future.

[zaius316]

I wish NBC would start doing this again.

[dobbins2550]

Is it me or do sports suck nowadays?

[johnjms2]

This was SOOO good. My friend had a tape of ALL these openings, but it was lost/destroyed. Anyone who has more - PLEASE post. Nowadays, it seems openings have to be about pimping some hip hop artist or rock video, or worse yet, a network show. Why can't we get back to classic sports music with classic sports moments?

[generationll]

Love seeing this 1985.

[TallVape]

Tebow 3:15

[cag1970]

I'd love to hear this theme straight through, where it doesn't loop back once it gets to the end. This was a great, great opening.

[m1sterhockey]

That Viking game was possibly my favorite Vikings game of all time!!! Loved hearing Charlie Jones say "You're Kidding". I liked this opening with the great moments. Networks should do openings like this again!!!

[B2B76]

@Sportbuff99TV Nice, that would be great. I'm a die hard Jets fan so obviously that game was special to me, I was 9 or 10 years old when that game was on. There was an equally dramatic O'Brien to Walker pass as time expired that allowed the Jets to the game at 45, then the OT bomb that ended it, classic game.