I hadn't realized the Eagles didn't host any Monday night games from 1982 through 1987. Checking back, they did have 2 MNF games cancelled due to the 1982 strike, but those were on the road at Pittsburgh and Atlanta. They weren't scheduled for MNF at all from 1983-1987. They beat the Giants in this game, 24-13, and went on to win the NFC East for only the second time since the merger.
Really makes you think was replacing this intro with "are you ready for some football!" all that necessary? This pinball machine opening should've lasted more than just one year.
@@ericradford2142 it definitely had traction but it got overhyped (not nearly as it's "heavy action" theme but espn is responsible for running that one into the ground aka da-da-d-daaaa) for some reason (maybe to rid the image of it being an olympic network since their last games to this date happened earlier in that year), in the fall of 1988 ABC Sports changed all of it's graphics and music where all of it's sports properties (except maybe wide world) would include the same piece of music in it thus making it noticeable and distinctive from other networks (similiar to what NBC Sports would do by incorporating the "N-B-C" sound effects in theirs). I believe the pinball machine opening all came with this territory. As to why it was bumped in favor of Hank Williams the following year? The short answer; money!
@@ryanstrnad1852 I think the same rationale was behind CBS Sports using their then-new 1987 college football theme music (which started its life as the opening theme of the Super Bowl XXI [Giants/Broncos] broadcast in Jan. 1987) by Lloyd Landesman across all of a Saturday college gameday on the Tiffany Network starting that season (which, IINM, it still is today, even on CBS Sports Network); before that, they used their 1984 college football theme music for the game broadcasts, and the theme music of The NCAA Today (a former CBS Sports NCAA football studio show that started in 1982) for studio coverage w/Jim Nantz on The Prudential College Football Report at halftime starting in 1985 (and on College Football Report Update gamebreaks starting that season as well [Pat Haden on those in 1985, and Jim Nantz on them starting in 1986]). Personally, I think the NCAA Today theme music (and 1984 game broadcast music and titles) were far better (and still are) than the 1987 music (which, IMO, has lasted far too long).
How about posting this whole game including "The Hunters" part of the intro focusing on Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White and Randall Cunningham as well as Lynn Swann's halftime feature on Cunningham?
+Joseph Wright I don't have the Hunters part (the recording my dad had came started with what I uploaded). As for the whole game, I MAY try it as a test and hope the NFL doesn't raise a stink about it.
It was used only in 1988. The following season they went to Hank Williams (which I also never liked) and stuck with that until 2011, when Williams stupidly compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. I still prefer the intros they used from 1970-1975 and then 1976-1987.
I hadn't realized the Eagles didn't host any Monday night games from 1982 through 1987. Checking back, they did have 2 MNF games cancelled due to the 1982 strike, but those were on the road at Pittsburgh and Atlanta. They weren't scheduled for MNF at all from 1983-1987. They beat the Giants in this game, 24-13, and went on to win the NFC East for only the second time since the merger.
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I actually like this Monday Night Football intro "Pinball Machine".
Really makes you think was replacing this intro with "are you ready for some football!" all that necessary? This pinball machine opening should've lasted more than just one year.
Me too! And Frank Gifford with his trademarked "Mondeeee Night Football!"
@@ryanstrnad8442 I never really cared for Hank Williams Jr. and his Are You Ready For Some Football song to be honest.
@@ericradford2142 it definitely had traction but it got overhyped (not nearly as it's "heavy action" theme but espn is responsible for running that one into the ground aka da-da-d-daaaa) for some reason (maybe to rid the image of it being an olympic network since their last games to this date happened earlier in that year), in the fall of 1988 ABC Sports changed all of it's graphics and music where all of it's sports properties (except maybe wide world) would include the same piece of music in it thus making it noticeable and distinctive from other networks (similiar to what NBC Sports would do by incorporating the "N-B-C" sound effects in theirs). I believe the pinball machine opening all came with this territory. As to why it was bumped in favor of Hank Williams the following year? The short answer; money!
@@ryanstrnad1852 I think the same rationale was behind CBS Sports using their then-new 1987 college football theme music (which started its life as the opening theme of the Super Bowl XXI [Giants/Broncos] broadcast in Jan. 1987) by Lloyd Landesman across all of a Saturday college gameday on the Tiffany Network starting that season (which, IINM, it still is today, even on CBS Sports Network); before that, they used their 1984 college football theme music for the game broadcasts, and the theme music of The NCAA Today (a former CBS Sports NCAA football studio show that started in 1982) for studio coverage w/Jim Nantz on The Prudential College Football Report at halftime starting in 1985 (and on College Football Report Update gamebreaks starting that season as well [Pat Haden on those in 1985, and Jim Nantz on them starting in 1986]).
Personally, I think the NCAA Today theme music (and 1984 game broadcast music and titles) were far better (and still are) than the 1987 music (which, IMO, has lasted far too long).
i remembr this one.. it came on like a movie..like this is your "movie of the week""
Now I am the ABC Monday Night Football and I have been working for 12 years and I am only 58 years old.
"Yeah!"
the game played at the old vet(veterans stadium)
The sloppy days
You should re-post this because you missed the first part of the intro.
The best part.
George Vreeland Hill That's where the recording started. Wish I had that "hunters" bit myself.
Is this the game where Randall Cunningham broke a sack by Carl Banks and threw a TD to Keith Jackson in the corner of the endzone?
Yes, "The Flip."
Jim Zorn 2 Steve Largent was it
How about posting this whole game including "The Hunters" part of the intro focusing on Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White and Randall Cunningham as well as Lynn Swann's halftime feature on Cunningham?
+Joseph Wright I don't have the Hunters part (the recording my dad had came started with what I uploaded). As for the whole game, I MAY try it as a test and hope the NFL doesn't raise a stink about it.
Go for it!
Worst opening to Monday Night Football ever
It was used only in 1988. The following season they went to Hank Williams (which I also never liked) and stuck with that until 2011, when Williams stupidly compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. I still prefer the intros they used from 1970-1975 and then 1976-1987.
You're crazy.
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