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Name your favorite network sports theme song growing up: The NBA ON CBS 1970s. A good one I think.
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Posted on 05/02/2025 6:14:33 AM PDT by vespa300

Give it all you got take your very best shot, and may the best team win, the time is now, the name of the game is action......

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To: Robert A Cook PE

The ski jumper was Vinko Bogataj


21 posted on 05/02/2025 6:30:24 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: vespa300

I could have done without the disco.


22 posted on 05/02/2025 6:31:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

I agree. There were something like three versions? The first, from the 60’s, opening the show with lyrics and closing it without, was always the best. Tough to find. I’ve yet to find a clean recording of the original. It’s almost like a lost piece of music.


23 posted on 05/02/2025 6:31:32 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes and there are so many great tunes from NFL Game of the week in the 60s and 70s...literally dozens.

And this one right here......was probably my favorite. So beautiful yet powerful as they would show the plays in slow motion.

John Scott, Today’s Achievements. Super Bowl VI

Just delicious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIyOtMYney8&list=PLnHwgmYoZzIeMxc_xuQcGZRNiM9uMKroa&index=12


24 posted on 05/02/2025 6:35:02 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: jmcenanly

I really like the parade/fanfare music John Williams wrote for the pod race in _The Phantom Menace._


25 posted on 05/02/2025 6:35:22 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: vespa300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7c1Hss4qMg

Love’s Theme


26 posted on 05/02/2025 6:36:06 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (tried to invade )
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To: vespa300

I remember that one.


27 posted on 05/02/2025 6:36:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: desertsolitaire

Yes....ABC opening for Golf in the 70s. Showing the beautiful course of the week....I remember Pebble Beach and this beautiul song......those were the days.

Can you remember the CBS Golf intro? It was also so nice. The theme from the charles bronson tv series.

there is a youtube comment...”CBS Sports presents Golf!”

This was a great sports Golf theme CBS used..so pretty and elegant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68sJPLobvT8


28 posted on 05/02/2025 6:41:19 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

“Cavalcade of Sports”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cyy_rziuk


29 posted on 05/02/2025 6:44:05 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: BradyLS

My favorite sports theme music is the Olympic song. John Williams deserves credit for merging the prior composition Bugler’s Dream into what us Americans expect for the Olympic fanfare music. I believe for a few decades he composed different versions of it.


30 posted on 05/02/2025 6:45:55 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
We must have seen that ski jumper wipe at the jump on Wide World of Sports 800 times ...

And the Agony of defeat....

31 posted on 05/02/2025 6:46:33 AM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: moviefan8

Oh that’s a great one. I remember it so well. Especially the opening of the games during the 1987 NBA Finals. Brett Musberger and the Celtics Lakers. My heart broke when Magic hit that mini sky hook...but the intro to that game and this song........great stuff.

Game 4 intro.....even the writing was good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4k5qc6HIs


32 posted on 05/02/2025 6:47:42 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

I think I liked this one: ESPN Monday Night Football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9APljSTvj0&list=PL6-5ejKiwLZz6QGZENe5hxR_a1VtXbyaE&index=5

And this one: NFL ON FOX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1o2blfeO0


33 posted on 05/02/2025 6:47:52 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: vespa300

That’s a good one.

The days that I actually enjoyed watching the NBA until it became low life.


34 posted on 05/02/2025 6:51:45 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: vespa300

Back when I was at UF, they had The Norm Sloan show and they used Jean-Luc Ponty’s “Infinite Pursuit”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxp1q814HQs


35 posted on 05/02/2025 6:51:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim W N

The 3-Point shot ruined basketball.


36 posted on 05/02/2025 6:52:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Migraine

Good one.


37 posted on 05/02/2025 6:53:04 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: vespa300

Marvin Gay’s National Anthem wins it for me..


38 posted on 05/02/2025 6:54:20 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Best sports song, is “You’ll Never Walk Alone” at Anfield.


39 posted on 05/02/2025 6:55:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tell It Right

Olympic Fanfare - good stuff.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Olympic+fanfare+music&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS965US965&oq=Olympic+fanfare+music&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCzEwNjE0NDdqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9806bf39,vid:MCqUESCoB1w,st:0


40 posted on 05/02/2025 6:55:35 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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