This certainly brings me back to when I started following football in 1983-84. While the graphics and presentation are crude by today's standards, nothing will beat it in my heart.
I think I'll watch this clip every Sunday afternoon at 12:30 PM ET sharp for the rest of my life to pay my respects for how great this show used to be. The music still gives me the chills - simply awesome.
This was my all time favorite opening for the nfl today show...It looked so futuristic for its day...The song was a great build up to an excellent sports show...CBS had the dominant NFC games back then.
@@dathomie4044 nope. They didn't. Even when they talk so much about how much history means to them, look at those 100 greatest clips. How much of it was things that happened in the last 10-20 years?
jeffreywolfe2008 like ESPN did in 2004 when they celebrated their 25 years in the air. All the sports they covered they did old school 1979 graphics & even with their scoreboards!
I think Brent (or someone else on the 30 for 30 Greek movie) said that it was the first of it's kind. When that theme starts playing, you KNEW it was a football Sunday. :)
I was (a small) part of the team that created this animation. We did it at New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab on Long Island. CBS was very particular about the shape of the "eye." In those days, computer animation was done one frame at a time, with each frame taking from minutes to hours, then being recorded onto videotape for full-speed playback later. Owing to the long times it took to see results of changes, the animators often worked late into the night. This can lead to somewhat punchy behavior in the wee hours. Our lab monitors were scattered all over the various workspaces, as the idea of each person having their own full-color, full-resolution display was still several years in the future. Thus, when you arrived in the morning, you often had a gallery of work-in-progress images to look at. Towards the end of this project, we all came in one day to see the name "Burnt Mooseburger" on the screens, in star-spangled 3D letters. I believe steps were taken to avoid anyone from CBS ever seeing that, but I often wonder if it wouldn't have been a clever Easter egg to have put it into just one frame...
Glad to hear that you were part of television history-- I was born in 1981, and I was a wee lad when I saw this for the first time (don't know what year it was).
@@daboys1215 You are most welcome. It was a big deal to make, but now lost to the advances of superior technology. Very nice to know that someone remembers it
I will never forget this as long as i live. This is a special tv show that i watched at 8 & 9 years old. I lived in San Antonio TX back then but big redskins games i always used to think jimmy the greek hated the redskins. He always picked against them.
0:35, “The NFL Today is sponsored by: -Chevrolet: America is on the move and Chevrolet is supplying the wheels. Chevrolet and YOU, taking charge… -Twix: The chocolate candy with the cookie crunch… …and by… -The Nintendo Entertainment System: The #1 video game system with the most exciting and challenging video game hits. NOW you’re playing with power! And now, from the CBS Sports Control center in New York, HERE’S BRENT MUSBURGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”-Don Robertson.
Holy crap....I hadn't heard Phyllis George passed away......when was this? As a 9 year kid as I was back in '83, I had the biggest crush on her, I really did.....I thought it was SOOO cool that they had a woman on a broadcast like this! IMHO, she shattered the glass ceiling for women in broadcasting and this gig is living proof that she did it too! RIP Phyllis George :-(
The NFL Today Intro On CBS from the 1983 season is one of my favorite NFL Pregame Intros. The COMPUTERIZED ROBOT, RUNNING through THE STUDIO, during the OPENING CREDITS, is A GREAT WAY to BEGIN the program.
And, IMO, is the best of all the openings that the broadcast has had-- that Posthumus Zone now pales in comparison (then, this was used on pregame, halftime and postgame coverage, and a separate track was used for the games; now, Posthumus is used for the whole setup [pregame and all]).
Being a Cowboys fan (amidst a family of Giants fans) we were a CBS house, the network of the NFC. When Brent would go "YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT TEXAS STADIUM IN IRVING..." I still smile :). Back then it was about the analysis and the games. Now the pregame shows are all arrogant egomaniacs trying to see who's jokes are funnier and who talks loudest.
That's correct-- we do have throwback uniforms. If the NFL allows throwback uniforms, then why shouldn't it allow its television partners (FOX, CBS, NBC, ESPN) to go back to the way that it used to be done?
I wish that the NFL have dedicated "Throwback" weeks held annually during the season. The first throwback week would be the Thanksgiving Day Games and Thanksgiving Weekend slate of games and the second throwback week should be before or around Christmas where the teams wear throwback uniforms and the tv networks present the games similar to what they did during the 70's and 80's for CBS and NBC and the mid 90's for Fox and the early 80's from ABC for Monday Night Football on ESPN. "Horizontal Hold" does make me flash back to the mid to late 1980's when I was still growing up in the Washington, DC area and my parents would have the tv locked on WUSA Channel 9 (WDVM from 1978 to 1986) to watch the NFL Today prior to kickoff for the big early games within the NFC East.
at the Nations Capital where sold out RFK stadium plays host to the NY Giants, I'm Brent Musberger and in the studio with me is Irv Cross and Jimmy the Greek.
“(does best Don Robertson impersonation) The NFL Today on Nickelodeon is sponsored by… -Liberty Mutual: Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance so you’ll only pay for what you need… -1-800-COLLECT: The easy way to save… …and by… -The Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Now you’re playing with power… Super Power! And now, from Stage 28 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, here are your hosts… ERIN COSCARELLI AND COLLEEN WOLFE!!!!!”
I hope you were able to see "You are looking live: The show that changed sports television forever" before the Super Bowl yesterday. What an awesome look back. Jayne Kennedy still looks amazing and I'm glad Brent didn't have to do this alone. RIP Jimmy, Phyllis and Irv. Greatest pregame team of all.
While the special was great, and I particularly loved the first segment where they talked about just how much technical innovation it took to get highlights when the show first started, I was a disappointed both that this "heavier" version of Jack Trombey's Horizontal Hold didn't make an appearance (they used the original version), as well as no mention whatsoever of "Wireframe Guy" as seen above. This 3D animation was actually revolutionary for its time and was an innovation unto itself. I'm a TV production geek, so I enjoy all the production stuff. I felt like the show focused more on the personalities than the production. It is what it is, and given the bombastic personalities the show had, I'm not surprised. It almost felt like the show was CBS' way of reconnecting with Brent Musberger, especially with the Super Bowl in Vegas where Musberger is enjoying semi-retirement and coordinating VSIN now. I think it was their chance to let Musberger tell stories on the (virtual) set and reminisce about the people. It was enjoyable enough for me to let it live on my DVR in perpetuity, no doubt. Just not quite everything I was hoping for. Four stars out of five.
@thedude19766 You do have a point-- the '90s design does have one facet of the previous, and that is that (if you look closely) it has the title as a banner, something that the previous one had in spades (and something that I really enjoyed about that studio, to boot).
If this open is brought back for the 2018 NFL season and beyond, the open for The NFL Today would begin with the current 2016 CBS Sports logo, the 1983 arrangement of Horizontal Hold as its theme song and the CGI-reimagining of the 1983-89 open with the names of the cast members: Josh Mathews, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Bart Scott, Boomer Esiason, Jason LaCanfora and the tag team of Tracy Wolfson and Allie LaForce! That'll bring back great memories, wouldn't it?
No, I think Don Robertson would have been better, because he had that big booming voice that everyone who watched the NFL when it was on CBS the first time around remembers better than anyone else before or since. If you want Corey Burton, NBC should have hired him to do the VO (Voiceover) announcements for the network's Thursday and Sunday night NFL coverage.
Or, better yet, they would hire either David Kaye, Bob Caroli, Jim Cummings, Andy Geller, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Scott Graham, Howard Parker, Ashton Smith, Richard Malmos, Steven Jay Blum or Sandy Thomas to do VOs for CBS', FOX's or NBC's NFL coverage!
@tpirfan Yeah, I heard about that movie. Didn't get a chance to watch it, but I know the ESPN MNF guys let the NFL crew hang around for a bit to open the Steelers - Broncos game last week. Was great to see Brent , Phyllis, and Irv intro Monday Night Countdown. Just wish there was some way to watch that movie.
To the commentator Irv cross Brent Musburger and that fine Jane Kennedy love watching them on Sundays before the football game and a great theme song gets me jumping on Sundays
IDK; count me in the minority, but Studio 43 looks great. It really fits the current color scheme of CBS Sports, which I really like. What they should do is incorporate the CBS Sports logo into that circle they use (in place of the gold one at the start of the clip), the current NFL Today script, replace all other elements except for the red elements with differing shades of blue and make the computer models solid instead of lined. Use that sequence as the intro. Oh yeah, and use this music!
I think he should be fortunate if he's selected Kipe, considering he's an amputee. It's very obvious: look at the gap between the thigh and calf, and between the upper and lower arms. The knee and elbow joints would normally take up more space. Instead it's four small ball joints. This makes him an already intriguing choice because of his potential flexibility, but the mobility he demonstrated at the combine is nothing short of shocking.-Todd McShay
@@daboys1215 perfect intro my favorite NFL team from the early 90s Atlanta Falcons Dallas Cowboys Houston Oilers Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Rams 🏈
I would run home from church at a full sprint in order to see this opening. friggin Father McNamara would go long and I only had about a minute to cover 1/5th of a mile some sundays.
Yeah, That one's decent, except for the neon CBS Sports logo on the blacony above the desk. Where are we, at an open air beer garden in central park? Come to think of it, that actually doesn't sound too bad...
I think when CBS regained TV rights to televise NFL Games in The late 90's they at first used this theme once again for The NFL Today. Then changed it a year or two later.
It's funny how people use the word diversity a lot in today's world. Especially for those of us who grew up in the 70's and early 80's. CBS Sports and in particular The NFL Today was diversity before we knew what it meant. A white man, a black man and a woman on national television every week a half hour before the game in your area. Great memories. Phyllis left us last year and Irv this year. RIP Irv Cross
I loved it when Brent Musberger said You are looking live at insert stadium and location here it was time for Football in the 1980s with Pete roszille as commenisor not Roger Goodell's NFL
I used to like the old cast of Brent, Irv, Phyllis, and even the Greek-the one thing I remember most about Jimmy is that he rarely went against Dallas in the pregames-before he was axed for the comments made and the before the Cowboys nosedived in the late 80's
I'm a big Giants fan, yet i can't really dispute any thing you wrote! My aunt used to live near Elizabeth, NJ, and my mom would drive my sis and i there from ny, we'd pass the stadium and smell the absolute worst oder outside our cat's liter box! My sis and i dubbed the area "stinkland." "Garden State" my ass, more like the"Oil Refinery State." And LT and the coke. *sigh* brings back so many memories.
@thedude19766 They should, no doubt about it. Of all the studio designs of "The NFL Today," and of CBS Sports, that I saw in my lifetime, I'd like for them to go back 26 or 27 years to this wooden one. When this studio was in force, the program really was at its peak, not some bush-league imitation as it is today.
When I heard "You are looking live" I knew it was the start of a wonderful day.
This certainly brings me back to when I started following football in 1983-84. While the graphics and presentation are crude by today's standards, nothing will beat it in my heart.
I think I'll watch this clip every Sunday afternoon at 12:30 PM ET sharp for the rest of my life to pay my respects for how great this show used to be. The music still gives me the chills - simply awesome.
This was my all time favorite opening for the nfl today show...It looked so futuristic for its day...The song was a great build up to an excellent sports show...CBS had the dominant NFC games back then.
I miss the old NFL love this theme music
back when half of the tv screen wasnt covered in network logos and "news tickers" and shit
Rest in Peace Phyllis George. Loved this show especially Brent's iconic opening line, "You are looking live at..."
Brent is now the radio voice of the Las Vegas Raiders.
And almost every week, Brent would say “You are looking LIVE at the sold-out Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas!”
Childhood. God, I miss the 80's.
0:22 RIP Phyllis George 😔🙏🏽
RIP Irv Cross (July 27, 1939 - February 28, 2021)
@@mikey7189 OMG! That’s too bad! RIP. 😔💔
For the NFL's 100th season next year, CBS really oughta ressurect some of their old stuff like this. For that matter, NBC and FOX should too.
sadly they won't! they're so lame!
But they didn’t. NFL never forced them or persuaded them either. 🙄😒
@@dathomie4044 nope. They didn't. Even when they talk so much about how much history means to them, look at those 100 greatest clips. How much of it was things that happened in the last 10-20 years?
I've often thought the NFL should do a retro week every year with all the old music, graphics, uniforms, clothes, hairstyles. It would be so popular.
jeffreywolfe2008 like ESPN did in 2004 when they celebrated their 25 years in the air. All the sports they covered they did old school 1979 graphics & even with their scoreboards!
I think Brent (or someone else on the 30 for 30 Greek movie) said that it was the first of it's kind.
When that theme starts playing, you KNEW it was a football Sunday. :)
Rest In Peace,Irv Cross
Nothing got rid of a Sunday morning hangover like this intro...thanks for the post.
Man this brings tears to my eyes my childhood
Jimmy "The Greek"... May he forever rest in peace.
RIP Irv Cross
A TRON-inspired intro! Looks like a video game with vector graphics!
I was (a small) part of the team that created this animation. We did it at New York Institute of Technology's Computer Graphics Lab on Long Island. CBS was very particular about the shape of the "eye." In those days, computer animation was done one frame at a time, with each frame taking from minutes to hours, then being recorded onto videotape for full-speed playback later. Owing to the long times it took to see results of changes, the animators often worked late into the night. This can lead to somewhat punchy behavior in the wee hours.
Our lab monitors were scattered all over the various workspaces, as the idea of each person having their own full-color, full-resolution display was still several years in the future. Thus, when you arrived in the morning, you often had a gallery of work-in-progress images to look at. Towards the end of this project, we all came in one day to see the name "Burnt Mooseburger" on the screens, in star-spangled 3D letters. I believe steps were taken to avoid anyone from CBS ever seeing that, but I often wonder if it wouldn't have been a clever Easter egg to have put it into just one frame...
Glad to hear that you were part of television history-- I was born in 1981, and I was a wee lad when I saw this for the first time (don't know what year it was).
Awesome historical context.. thanks for sharing
On behalf of my much younger self at 10 years old, thank you! This is my favorite opening of the show.
@@daboys1215 You are most welcome. It was a big deal to make, but now lost to the advances of superior technology. Very nice to know that someone remembers it
This is my all time favorite NFL on CBS theme
And possibly the best NFL season, it seemed like the year that teams really started to modernize the game into what was known as 1980's football.
I will never forget this as long as i live. This is a special tv show that i watched at 8 & 9 years old. I lived in San Antonio TX back then but big redskins games i always used to think jimmy the greek hated the redskins. He always picked against them.
0:35, “The NFL Today is sponsored by:
-Chevrolet: America is on the move and Chevrolet is supplying the wheels. Chevrolet and YOU, taking charge…
-Twix: The chocolate candy with the cookie crunch…
…and by…
-The Nintendo Entertainment System: The #1 video game system with the most exciting and challenging video game hits. NOW you’re playing with power!
And now, from the CBS Sports Control center in New York, HERE’S BRENT MUSBURGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”-Don Robertson.
CBS, Bring this back in 2020!
This was the top of the line in computer graphics back then. Amazing how much has changed since then.
A pioneer for women in sportscasting and a big part of my childhood. RIP Phyllis George
Holy crap....I hadn't heard Phyllis George passed away......when was this? As a 9 year kid as I was back in '83, I had the biggest crush on her, I really did.....I thought it was SOOO cool that they had a woman on a broadcast like this! IMHO, she shattered the glass ceiling for women in broadcasting and this gig is living proof that she did it too! RIP Phyllis George :-(
@@FlyerHockeyPride She died last May. Irv Cross died on Sunday.
@@daboys1215 I just saw that yesterday. Thanks. Grew up with The NFL Today on CBS and this crew years ago 😥
@@FlyerHockeyPride You and me both.
Ahhh, this was the Fall of 4th grade. I totally remember this. It's by far the best pre-game show theme.
The NFL Today Intro On CBS from the 1983 season is one of my favorite NFL Pregame Intros. The COMPUTERIZED ROBOT, RUNNING through THE STUDIO, during the OPENING CREDITS, is A GREAT WAY to BEGIN the program.
And, IMO, is the best of all the openings that the broadcast has had-- that Posthumus Zone now pales in comparison (then, this was used on pregame, halftime and postgame coverage, and a separate track was used for the games; now, Posthumus is used for the whole setup [pregame and all]).
RIP Irv 🙏🏼
CBS sports is the GOAT when it comes to opening theme music!
Beautiful synth touch on 0:15! Very uplifting.
Being a Cowboys fan (amidst a family of Giants fans) we were a CBS house, the network of the NFC. When Brent would go "YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT TEXAS STADIUM IN IRVING..." I still smile :). Back then it was about the analysis and the games. Now the pregame shows are all arrogant egomaniacs trying to see who's jokes are funnier and who talks loudest.
Whoever wrote this is a creative genius.
That's correct-- we do have throwback uniforms. If the NFL allows throwback uniforms, then why shouldn't it allow its television partners (FOX, CBS, NBC, ESPN) to go back to the way that it used to be done?
Now this is a football theme
This is the one I remember seeing the most 👍😃
And it's the first one I ever saw as a boy!
The NFL Today theme (1983-1989, 1993 version between from beginning until 0:11 and from 0:30 until end)...
I wish that the NFL have dedicated "Throwback" weeks held annually during the season. The first throwback week would be the Thanksgiving Day Games and Thanksgiving Weekend slate of games and the second throwback week should be before or around Christmas where the teams wear throwback uniforms and the tv networks present the games similar to what they did during the 70's and 80's for CBS and NBC and the mid 90's for Fox and the early 80's from ABC for Monday Night Football on ESPN. "Horizontal Hold" does make me flash back to the mid to late 1980's when I was still growing up in the Washington, DC area and my parents would have the tv locked on WUSA Channel 9 (WDVM from 1978 to 1986) to watch the NFL Today prior to kickoff for the big early games within the NFC East.
0:38 ..You are looking live...
at the Nations Capital where sold out RFK stadium plays host to the NY Giants, I'm Brent Musberger and in the studio with me is Irv Cross and Jimmy the Greek.
YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT GIANTS STADIUM IN THE MEADOWLANDS...
Thats exactly what he said! Bring back memories
@@garydotson5709 You know back when pre-game shows were about oh I don't know...THE GAMES and now who the funniest guy in the room is
“(does best Don Robertson impersonation) The NFL Today on Nickelodeon is sponsored by…
-Liberty Mutual: Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance so you’ll only pay for what you need…
-1-800-COLLECT: The easy way to save…
…and by…
-The Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Now you’re playing with power… Super Power!
And now, from Stage 28 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, here are your hosts… ERIN COSCARELLI AND COLLEEN WOLFE!!!!!”
I used to love this intro as a little kid.... I remember wishing they'd show a game entirely in CGI, but sadly, that never happened.
I hope you were able to see "You are looking live: The show that changed sports television forever" before the Super Bowl yesterday. What an awesome look back. Jayne Kennedy still looks amazing and I'm glad Brent didn't have to do this alone. RIP Jimmy, Phyllis and Irv. Greatest pregame team of all.
While the special was great, and I particularly loved the first segment where they talked about just how much technical innovation it took to get highlights when the show first started, I was a disappointed both that this "heavier" version of Jack Trombey's Horizontal Hold didn't make an appearance (they used the original version), as well as no mention whatsoever of "Wireframe Guy" as seen above. This 3D animation was actually revolutionary for its time and was an innovation unto itself.
I'm a TV production geek, so I enjoy all the production stuff. I felt like the show focused more on the personalities than the production. It is what it is, and given the bombastic personalities the show had, I'm not surprised.
It almost felt like the show was CBS' way of reconnecting with Brent Musberger, especially with the Super Bowl in Vegas where Musberger is enjoying semi-retirement and coordinating VSIN now. I think it was their chance to let Musberger tell stories on the (virtual) set and reminisce about the people. It was enjoyable enough for me to let it live on my DVR in perpetuity, no doubt. Just not quite everything I was hoping for. Four stars out of five.
Memories of coming home from Playing pop warner games on Sunday mornings then sitting down to watch the NFL. AHHHH to be an 8th grader again.
Yeah I wish CBS had kept and would bring back this theme, it rocks!
I like when the camera turns for Phillis George.
I remember when they reunited on the ESPN set for that 30 for 30 movie when it was coming out. I wish I could find the video of that. :(
"All this and more on The NFL Today"
@thedude19766 You do have a point-- the '90s design does have one facet of the previous, and that is that (if you look closely) it has the title as a banner, something that the previous one had in spades (and something that I really enjoyed about that studio, to boot).
We have all that and more coming up on the NFL Today theme music plays
If this open is brought back for the 2018 NFL season and beyond, the open for The NFL Today would begin with the current 2016 CBS Sports logo, the 1983 arrangement of Horizontal Hold as its theme song and the CGI-reimagining of the 1983-89 open with the names of the cast members: Josh Mathews, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Bart Scott, Boomer Esiason, Jason LaCanfora and the tag team of Tracy Wolfson and Allie LaForce! That'll bring back great memories, wouldn't it?
Bring back Don Robertson as the announcer, and it would be complete.
Or, better yet, have Corey Burton as announcer.
No, I think Don Robertson would have been better, because he had that big booming voice that everyone who watched the NFL when it was on CBS the first time around remembers better than anyone else before or since. If you want Corey Burton, NBC should have hired him to do the VO (Voiceover) announcements for the network's Thursday and Sunday night NFL coverage.
Or, better yet, they would hire either David Kaye, Bob Caroli, Jim Cummings, Andy Geller, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Scott Graham, Howard Parker, Ashton Smith, Richard Malmos, Steven Jay Blum or Sandy Thomas to do VOs for CBS', FOX's or NBC's NFL coverage!
Outside of Scott Graham, who does the studio reports for Westwood One's NFL coverage on the radio, I've never heard of any of these others.
So long ago in my life, and I still remember this! I have a sudden urge to watch an episode of Saturday Supercade after looking at this intro.
I miss 1983
Same with me, I always looked forward to hearing Brent Musberger say that, the 80's rocked!
@tpirfan Yeah, I heard about that movie. Didn't get a chance to watch it, but I know the ESPN MNF guys let the NFL crew hang around for a bit to open the Steelers - Broncos game last week. Was great to see Brent , Phyllis, and Irv intro Monday Night Countdown.
Just wish there was some way to watch that movie.
Whenever I heard this, I knew something good was about to happen.
God I love this :)
To the commentator Irv cross Brent Musburger and that fine Jane Kennedy love watching them on Sundays before the football game and a great theme song gets me jumping on Sundays
I can't hear that music without thinking of Brent Musburger saying "You are looking live"
"Heeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr on CCCCCCCCCCBS"
Brings back memories!
Brent could still do the job dont know why they phased him
Hats off to the original NFL Today crew.
I think this particular theme movement was from the 1984 season; they debuted said movement during Super Bowl XVIII some months before.
IDK; count me in the minority, but Studio 43 looks great. It really fits the current color scheme of CBS Sports, which I really like. What they should do is incorporate the CBS Sports logo into that circle they use (in place of the gold one at the start of the clip), the current NFL Today script, replace all other elements except for the red elements with differing shades of blue and make the computer models solid instead of lined. Use that sequence as the intro. Oh yeah, and use this music!
Nothing better to start your day to watch a pregame show at 9:00 am , and watcing a 10:00 am game then go on for the rest of your day.
I think he should be fortunate if he's selected Kipe, considering he's an amputee. It's very obvious: look at the gap between the thigh and calf, and between the upper and lower arms. The knee and elbow joints would normally take up more space. Instead it's four small ball joints. This makes him an already intriguing choice because of his potential flexibility, but the mobility he demonstrated at the combine is nothing short of shocking.-Todd McShay
I love the ending!
NFL today intro from the Final Chapter 1993 with Greg Gumbel and Terry Bradshaw CBS Sports
No. This was 10 years earlier.
@@daboys1215 perfect intro my favorite NFL team from the early 90s Atlanta Falcons Dallas Cowboys Houston Oilers Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Rams 🏈
@@jefferyrobertson7520 1983 not 1993.
I would run home from church at a full sprint in order to see this opening. friggin Father McNamara would go long and I only had about a minute to cover 1/5th of a mile some sundays.
you are looking live !!
Yeah, That one's decent, except for the neon CBS Sports logo on the blacony above the desk. Where are we, at an open air beer garden in central park? Come to think of it, that actually doesn't sound too bad...
I think when CBS regained TV rights to televise NFL Games in The late 90's they at first used this theme once again for The NFL Today. Then changed it a year or two later.
I'm 25 and I grew up with this theme. CBS needs to bring it back for the nfl today
I loved that game.
OMG I beeen looking for this ty ty ty wow!!!!!!!!!! They should re do the graphics with the fox 50 one
The updated edition from 1993, 1998, or 2002!
Thanx Brett Phillis Irv and Greek.
I miss this this part of America!
I wish CBS would bring the old theme back!
That’s one athletic football player
I remember that very well watching as a 8 yr kidsl
Reminds me of my father's 1982 Toyota Supra. That was all futuristic, too.
This a time when professional football on tv was awesome
You are looking live @ RFK Stadium, where Neil Lomax and the Cardinals take on Joe Gibbs and the Washington Redskins.
with Pat Summerall announcing, lol. It's like that with the Red Sox and Yankees.
It's funny how people use the word diversity a lot in today's world. Especially for those of us who grew up in the 70's and early 80's. CBS Sports and in particular The NFL Today was diversity before we knew what it meant. A white man, a black man and a woman on national television every week a half hour before the game in your area. Great memories. Phyllis left us last year and Irv this year. RIP Irv Cross
At about 0:36... *THE NFL TODAY* is brought to you by...(and goes on to list of sponsors)
And now, *BRENT MUSBERGER!*
You are looking live!
Don Robertson!
I remember this one
I loved it when Brent Musberger said You are looking live at insert stadium and location here it was time for Football in the 1980s with Pete roszille as commenisor not Roger Goodell's NFL
Pete Rozelle
Paul Tagliabue's (Pete Rozelle's successor) NFL was just as good as Rozelle's, though he didn't last nearly as long as commissioner as Rozelle.
Amen, I get chills when I see this. Brent's "You are looking live" was the best. Except the Cowgirls suck buddy!
I used to like the old cast of Brent, Irv, Phyllis, and even the Greek-the one thing I remember most about Jimmy is that he rarely went against Dallas in the pregames-before he was axed for the comments made and the before the Cowboys nosedived in the late 80's
The NFL on CBS did not use this music during the 98 year there was some different music they used from the 93, 94 season.
I'm a big Giants fan, yet i can't really dispute any thing you wrote! My aunt used to live near Elizabeth, NJ, and my mom would drive my sis and i there from ny, we'd pass the stadium and smell the absolute worst oder outside our cat's liter box! My sis and i dubbed the area "stinkland." "Garden State" my ass, more like the"Oil Refinery State." And LT and the coke. *sigh* brings back so many memories.
Driving past a dump site that was covered up with grass on the Jersey Turnpike. NJ was once the dumping capital of the world
You are looking LIVE…
0:31
Bring that theme back next season.
Hey! I saw that too!
@thedude19766 They should, no doubt about it. Of all the studio designs of "The NFL Today," and of CBS Sports, that I saw in my lifetime, I'd like for them to go back 26 or 27 years to this wooden one. When this studio was in force, the program really was at its peak, not some bush-league imitation as it is today.
The console looks like a spaceship
IBM was a sponsor almost every week
That reminds me of how ABCSPN handles the Lakers these days...