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• 0:00
  SPEAKER_15: Hi everybody, welcome to the Pittsburgh Sports and Memories Podcast.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_15: My name is Tim Hannon, and with me as always Steve Wirt.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_15: And this is the intro to our episode about Pittsburgh Sports TV intros.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_15: Very meta.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_09: I feel like I'm looking in a mirror where like it just goes into infinity of the intro.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_15: So we wanted to do something a little different for this episode.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_15: I think most of us have experienced sports through the television.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, we've all been to games, and some of us have been to a lot of games, but still the large majority of the time we have spent following our favorite Pittsburgh sports teams has been via television.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_15: And a big part of watching sports on TV is the intros.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_15: They come on with the theme music or the voiceovers and the shots of the city, all the stuff that gets you ready to watch this big game.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_15: And I think, in my opinion, sports intros are just as iconic sometimes as like sitcom intros or any other TV intro.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_15: So we're gonna talk about and play for you some great Pittsburgh sports intros from years past.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_15: And before we get started, I want to uh give a special shout out to a listener and friend of mine, Jason, who's a kind of a sports intro aficionado and gave me some good input for this episode.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_15: So we're gonna jump in with some Steelers game intros from throughout the years, and we're gonna kick it off with a CBS intro from 1977.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_15: And Steve, see if you recognize the interesting musical choice that CBS was using for its game intros at this time.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_15: I think you'll find that it's a familiar little tune.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_09: Oh my gosh.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_08: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  SPEAKER_08: The three rivers, the Allegheny, and the Monongahila.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_08: They come together to form the Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_08: As you look now at downtown Pittsburgh, the Golden Triangle, and it's the site today of the Dallas Cowboys against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, we're only five and four.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_09: Oh my goodness.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_09: We'll never beat the Cowboys.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_09: Um, yes, this is obviously the Star Wars theme, but not only is it the Star Wars theme, Tim, it is the disco version of the Star Wars theme, which I do believe I they replay the Casey Kasem top hits of the 70s and 80s on our local radio station.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_09: And uh this was this was up there in the top ten, believe it or not.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_09: This was a top ten journey song.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_09: Well this guy, I guess this guy would do this like he would take like the Star Wars theme, and then he took uh Beethoven.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_09: You ever heard a fifth of Beethoven?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, same kind of deal.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_09: Like they just put it to disco music.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_09: They did that well into the early 80s.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_15: So Oh wow, okay.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I didn't I didn't even know that that existed.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_15: You obviously knew that that existed, but I certainly didn't know that they were using it as like the intro music for CBS football games.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_09: It is very what what year was this?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_09: 77.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_09: 77, yeah.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_09: It sounds about right.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, I think that was when did Star Wars come out?
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_15: It was that year.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_15: New Hope came out in 77.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_09: So like August or July, wasn't it?
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_09: It was a summer movie.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_15: It was a summer movie, so yes.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_09: Maybe May.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_09: It might have been May, yeah.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_15: Very timely, I suppose.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_09: So it fall five and four, this is halfway into the season, so this is like October or November.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_15: So yeah, good point.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_15: So uh that was the 70s.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_15: Uh by the time the 1980s rolls around, the Steelers stink, but the intros are better.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_15: Here's one that we actually played once before.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_15: This is an intro to a 1985 Steelers Browns game on NBC, and I always loved this one as a kid.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_15: I thought it sounded very regal.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_04: The National Broadcasting Company is proud to be the network of Super Bowl XX.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_04: Today, from Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it's the Cleveland Browns versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_09: Just the way that they like the things they don't say NBC, they say the National Broadcasting Company and then the National Football League.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_09: Right.
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  SPEAKER_15: It's like that's what I'm saying.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_15: It's like the way that they formally announced, and it wasn't Pittsburgh, it was Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_09: United States of America.
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  SPEAKER_15: It was very it was like ceremonial, you know what I mean?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, yes.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_09: There was I think that's their own song that I don't recognize that song from anything else.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_09: So I imagine this was probably written for NBC by somebody else.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_15: It may have been.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_15: Um, because I do have it somewhere else.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_15: But it it's a piece they actually used it in NFL films also.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_15: Uh if you if you go watch the Super Bowl film for Super Bowl 17, which was the Redskins and the Dolphins, you'll hear it in there as well.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_15: I think it's called like Send Them Victorious or something like that.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, that sounds like a yeah, NFL film.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_09: Well, you can actually buy the NFL film soundtrack if you really want to.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_09: You can.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_15: You can find a lot of it on YouTube as well.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_15: So um so NBC's opening was very regal, but back in those days, the really big game of the week was Monday night football.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_15: Or as or as Frank Gifford used to call it Monday night football.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_09: I feel a uh country music legend coming on.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_15: Uh-huh.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_15: Uh-huh.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_15: And and so so back then that was like that was like the game of the week.
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  SPEAKER_15: Remember, and you had to be a really good team to be on Monday night football.
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  SPEAKER_15: So for most of the 80s, the Steel Wars weren't on.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_15: They were only playing on Sundays.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_09: You gotta remember back then there were so we're talking like what year are we getting this theme from?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_09: 70s?
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  SPEAKER_09: Or are we going with because it changed over the years.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_15: We're actually gonna, yeah.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_15: So where where I was going with that is the Steel Wars weren't really on in the 80s, so we're gonna jump into the 90s here when the Steel Wars are getting good again, and they do make it on Monday Night Football.
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  SPEAKER_09: Well, when did Monday night football start?
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_09: Like 70s something?
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_09: It started like late 70s, right?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_15: I think it was 1970, actually.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_09: So they were probably on some of the 70s.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_09: But like two, even till 1990, there were like I cable was coming in, but you know, there really was only three channels, three or four channels.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_09: And the game that was on, like if you wanted to watch an NFL game, the most you could do was watch the one o'clock game, probably, and maybe a four I don't know, did they even televise a four o'clock game back in the eighties?
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_09: I guess maybe.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_09: And then and then that was it.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_09: That was it.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_09: You would get maybe two games, maybe three with the one on Monday night.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_09: And so the third game would be the Monday night.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know if they had Sunday night.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_09: So it wasn't like now where there's just like it seems like there's six games a week.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_15: You're right, and there's times where like like pick a good team from back then, like the 49ers.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_15: The only time you see them is Monday night football or the players.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, I'm not gonna see Joe Montana actually play until yeah.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_09: Yep.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_15: Yep, so that was a big deal.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_15: Um, and and when we get into the 90s, the way that they would open Monday Night Football is they would have some celebrity or some other person ask us a very important question, Steve.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_15: Do you remember what that question was?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I think Am I ready for a sport that may be playing tonight?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_15: Yes, they would they would just make sure, just in case.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_09: Am I ready for Tuesday night volleyball?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_15: And you better be ready because it's coming no matter what.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_15: But they would they'd have the courtesy to at least ask.
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  SPEAKER_15: So here's the Steelers Monday night football opening uh featuring the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor.
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  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead, Endeavor.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're ready here on orbit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for some football?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_03: The Pittsburgh Steelers, named for the industry that was this city's lifeless throughout the franchise's history, especially during their Steel Curtain dynasty of the 1970s, ferocious deep hits have been their trademark.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_09: And there's the yeah, there's a little game preview.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_09: Of course, like this was like what 1990?
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_09: So like there wasn't a steel mill to be found in Pittsburgh by that point.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_09: So yeah, yeah.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_15: I'm glad you mentioned that because we're gonna come back to that later.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_15: Um, that was a big deal back then.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_15: Like the all the time, so what you can't see there is there's like a steel worker with a big hammer, and there's like a blast furnace, you know, and that was just very typical for years that that was the way that Pittsburgh was portrayed on a national level, uh, even into the 90s when you know there weren't any steel mills anymore.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_15: So that was very common.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_15: Um, but but so they yeah, they do the little game intro, and then of course, you had at the end of that, you had the two helmets crashing into each other, and then Hank Williams would come on to sing this theme song.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_03: The hammer dropped tonight as the Houston Oilers face the Pittsburgh Steelers on ABC's Monday night football.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_14: Well, it's Monday night and we're ready to rock.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_14: I'm against all the hip bangs in the block.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_14: Two division rivals are gonna meet here.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_14: The ballers and the stealers are in home.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_14: Yeah, we gotta get Foster.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_14: We gotta be fine.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_05: Monday night football's coming on tonight.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_09: I think that was the commander, too.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, we could have had that for our Oilers episode.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_15: I I love to I love to that you can just picture Hank Williams recording that song, and then like they're like, okay, we got a good cut of that, and then they have to spend like the next 10 minutes just recording these little dubbing sessions where he does the teams.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_15: It's like the Steelers and the Oilers, the Seahawks and the Raiders, the Dolphins and the Cowboys.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_09: And he's a Steeler fan, so there you go.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_15: Is he?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, Hank Williams Jr.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_09: is a I don't know why he's a Steeler fan, but he is.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_15: Because it makes perfect sense for him to be one, that's why.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_09: Everybody should be a Steeler fan.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_09: I mean, he's from like Nashville or something, isn't he?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_09: Uh yeah, I don't know.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_15: Hey, whatever.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_15: We're we we welcome him in.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_15: Welcome him in.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_15: Um so Steve Steve already referenced this, the fact that um, you know, for for years and years it was always, you know, steel mills and glass furnace, and you know, it was it was such an outdated view of Pittsburgh.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_15: So here's an NBC opening from 1995, which is refreshing as it makes reference to the city Pittsburgh is now rather than the city it was years ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: Take a listen to the No longer just the Steel City, now high-tech Pittsburgh Stadium.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_02: And where the Allegheny meets the Monongahila to form the Ohio It's Green River Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: The stadium sold out today as the Steelers host, the New England Patriots.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_09: Is this the uh game where they no, this isn't the Drew Bledsoe where they stuffed Drew Bledsoe at the end of the game, was it?
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_15: It is not.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_15: But uh man, that that music, that intro music they had back then, every time I hear that, I'm like instantly transported back to that like Rod Woodson, Greg Lloyd, Yancy Thigpen, Bill Cower early years era.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_09: Hey, did you see in the little like month they had a little montage of like generic NFL clips?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_09: Do you see like Bill Belichick hugging someone in a brown?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_09: He was like in this browns gear.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_09: It's like, wow, I didn't know Bill Belichick actually did that, even in way back when in Cleveland.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, we'll post a link to the video of that because it's it's perfect for the era.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_15: It's like Junior Sale, Bill Belichick in a Browns jacket.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_15: I think Marino's in there.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_15: It's it's just totally the players of the era.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_15: Um and that music, Steve, uh the composer for that was Randy Edelman.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_15: I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he did a lot of movie soundtracks and and two of the Edelman.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, two of the Randy Edelman movie soundtracks that I love are uh from the movies Gettysburg and Dragonheart.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, okay.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_15: Dragonheart, especially Dragonheart, I feel like has the biggest ratio of quality of the movie, quality of the soundtrack.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_15: Because it's a terrible movie.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_15: But the soundtrack is.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_09: I don't think I I don't remember who who was that what year was that?
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_09: Gee, I don't remember if I ever watched Dragon movie.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_15: 96, 97, maybe something somewhere around that.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_09: It was it was a bit dragon movie with Christian no, that was Rain of Fire.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_15: No, it was the Dragon movie where Sean Connery was the voice of the dragon.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_15: Oh, wow.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_15: And Randy Quaid.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, the dragon talks to Is it animated?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_15: Not Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_09: Uh Ron Quaid.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, Ron Quaid.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_15: No, it was not animated.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_09: Not animated.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_09: A non-animated dragon talking.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_15: With a Sean Connery voice.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_09: Well, that sounds ridiculous.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_09: I could never get away with this goldfinger.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_15: So, like I said, great, great soundtrack.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_15: Check out the soundtrack.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_15: It's great.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_15: You'll probably recognize you'd probably recognize the music because it's been used on a bunch of other movie trailers and stuff like that.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_15: But um that era also had something that I don't think you see anymore today, where there would often be this kind of like theatrical prelude for a game that would set the stage, especially if it was like a big game.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_15: And I feel like that's gone now.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_15: I feel I feel like when you turn on a football game, uh, or really any sporting event, they just kind of cut to the game without much of a setup.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_09: Uh and and it's because the pregames are like like any more like an hour and a half.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_09: Like by the time you get to the game, there's not really an intro and reason to do an intro.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_09: It's you know they they go right to the kickoff and it'll be like, welcome to Pittsburgh.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_09: It's you know, 56 and cloudy, and you know, they don't do like these official interviews where it's like the Steelers at 4-0 play the Patriots at 4-0 or something.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, that's a good that's actually a good point.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_15: They do there is a lot of pre-game now, especially again, especially when you get into like a bigger game, like a playoff game or something.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, there's not gonna they're not just gonna in the old days they would just go right to the game like five minutes before the game starts.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_09: That's why it's impossible to find when a game starts.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_09: Like you can you just can't, you know, if a game is scheduled to start at one o'clock, you might as well turn in tune in at like one ten.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_09: Especially college.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_09: College football is the bigger offender on that one.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_15: That's true.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_15: Well, here's here's an example of one of those, again, like theatrical preludes.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_15: This is the opening to the 1995 AFC Championship game, where the Steelers, of course, had fallen short the year before and then spent the whole season battling back from a three or three and four record, and they had that three more yards mantra.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_15: We, of course, did a whole season or whole episode about that season.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_15: But um, listen to this setup for that game, courtesy of the legendary Dick Enberg.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_21: The Steelers prefer to forget last season's disastrous title game, but that's impossible.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_21: Imagine the number of times quarterback Neil O'Donnell has had to quietly endure the fourth and thirty of October 12th forty four.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_21: Consider how many times Greg Lloyd has suffered the mental images of the failed coverage that put the Steelers behind to stay.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_21: Imagine fiery coach Bill Cower politely listening to the endless queries of well-meaning fans seeking what happened.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_21: What must it have been like to sit watching last year's Super Bowl, knowing you fell a mere three yards shy of center stage?
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_21: Were last season Steelers overconfident, unfocused, unprepared?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_21: They've given their failures plenty of thought.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_21: From Pittsburgh, it's the AFC Championship.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_15: Boy, I hope they don't lose after all that.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_09: Well, at least they at least you spared us like because I just remember them worshiping the Colts in that game.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_09: You cut out the part with the Colts where like in Jim Harvel a Captain Comeback.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_09: I I don't I might have put my fist through my computer screen if I had to hear that 30 years later.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_15: Uh that was the storyline for that game, though, was the upstart Colts and then the Steelers, just like the year before, are heavy favorites going into this championship game and could they redeem themselves?
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_15: It it it again, like that that set up the whole storyline.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_15: It's it's kind of like Steve.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_15: Remember when we did the episode on Super Bowl 14 and we were playing the NFL films clips and we talked about how it wasn't just a game, it was it was like a three-act play.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_15: You know, and that's that's I feel like that's what these old openings used to do.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_15: They used to just set up like here's the story.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_15: And I I don't know, like you said, they don't do that anymore because they have those big pregames.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_15: I also wonder if like the 24-7 football coverage just makes that kind of stuff redundant.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_15: You know what I mean?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_09: Like you you well, that was actually very well done and artistic by like there are little shots of like Neil looking sad and Greg Lloyd looking up.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_15: Greg Lloyd shaking his head in disbelief.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_09: So it's very well done.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_09: Like it's a lost art almost.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_09: And it is.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_09: Like you said, it's you know, with uh 24 new like if you don't know what's at stake here, and the game's been already hyped so much it's almost like overkill.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_09: It is overkill, I guess.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_09: Especially with the Super Bowl.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_09: Like you said, the bigger games just get it gets the too much.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_09: It's just like just just play, let's play the game.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_15: I just I still miss those openings though.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_09: So that was very well done, I was surprised.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_09: But it would it definitely would have annoyed, but it's the hook you to get you into the game and like what's the stake, and it it gets very effective at that.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_15: For sure.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_15: Um also in the 1990s, Fox got the NFL, and that was controversial at the time because people didn't consider Fox like a real network, but I think they surprised everyone, and one of the many things that people liked about their broadcasts was their theme music, which I believe is the same theme music they still use today.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_09: They haven't changed it.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_15: So here is a vintage Pat Summerall, John Madden Fox opening, and as a bonus, just for you, Steve, your all-time favorite non-steeler player is talked about here.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_15: So check it out.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_07: Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_07: The Cowboys in town to play the Steelers.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_07: The atmosphere is electric.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_07: A perfect day in Pittsburgh, and the cast of characters is all set.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_07: Dion Sanders is apparently healthy, will open at cornerback for the Cowboys defense, and Cordell Stewart, wearing a knee brace, will start at quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_07: Pat Summerall here again with John Madden and I think we lost that game, didn't we?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_15: We did.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_15: Probably because Dion was just so dominant.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_09: He was pretty there at the tail end of his career there in 97.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_15: I I know that's your your favorite player, so I thought you'd appreciate that.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_09: They did that just to annoy me.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_09: No Cletus, though, yet.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_09: You know, Cletus the the robot master.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, is that the robot's name?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_09: I didn't know the robot.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, okay.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_09: It's called Cletus.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, no robot yet.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_15: They just kind of had like a mechanical like like thing going, but no robot, unfortunately.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_09: Cletus the slack jaw yokold might have been just as Simptons, Simpsons fame.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_15: When when uh when Fox got the contract, it was for the NFC games that they'd kind of stolen away from CBS.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_15: And a few years later, CBS comes back as the broadcaster of the AFC games.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_15: So that's where most of the Steeler games are still televised to this day.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_15: Here's a CBS intro for the 2004 Steeler playoff game against the Jets.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_09: It's gotta be on fire.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_09: Is there fire?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, it's it's CBS had a lot of fire graphics in the in their openings in those years, yes.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_15: Uh and this is another good kind of setup for the game.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_15: Uh intro.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_15: This was Ben's rookie season, one of your favorite seasons, I know.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_15: And uh this is one of, again, the last the last of these kind of like theatrical preludes that we talked about.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_15: You don't really see this a whole lot today, as we already said.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_21: Today the Jets faced the best record in football, these Steelers.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_21: In Pittsburgh, where they've yet to lose the data.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_14: Don't move it home! Don't move it home! What could we dominate?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_21: And dominate they have, led by a ferocious defense and the timing of Big Ben, their surprising and undefeated first-year quarterback.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_21: Today the rookie will endeavor to keep alive the Steelers' drive for five.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_21: That long quest for a fifth ring, one for the thumb.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_21: Will history smile on the Steelers' side?
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_21: Or will the Jets author a second straight playoff road upset?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_21: Potential heroes in this four-quarter drama.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_21: Who will write tomorrow's headline?
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_12: Vince Lombardi.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_12: Winning the championship.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_12: The playoffs.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_12: Win or go home?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_12: The playoffs.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_12: Let's do it.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_12: It wouldn't matter if I had to play 20 years to win a Super Bowl.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_12: That's my goal.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_09: It's on fire.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_09: It's on fire.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_13: No.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_15: CBS graphic is completely burned up at this point.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_15: Curtis Martin, by the way, did not play 20 years and did not win a Super Bowl, sadly for him.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_09: He played in a Super Bowl and had pretty good stats.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_09: But that was way back like 10 years before this game.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_09: It was.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_15: So unfortunate for him.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_15: One of our one of actually, not being sarcastic this time, one of our favorite non-steel players.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_09: But this is the infamous uh what's his name?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_09: Doug Bryan missed the field goal.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_15: Two field goals.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_15: Two field goals, yes.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_09: Yep.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_09: And was put on eBay for three cents after that.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_09: That's right.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_15: That's right.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_15: I forgot about that.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_15: But that's I like I that's the same theme music that CBS still uses today.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_15: And it's it's good.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_15: It's got like a nice, like intense beat to it.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_15: It feels like focusing on the case.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_09: Well they used to didn't somebody use the Hall of the Mountain King or somebody used that dun dun dun dun.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_09: Somebody used that, I remember at one point.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_15: I I I I I just know that's the the uh theme music CBS uses today.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_15: But do do you remember, Steve, that at one point CBS says, nope, that music is not good enough.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_15: You know what It needs lyrics.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_15: Oh, there's here's an intro from a Steelers game from 2005.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_09: Lyrics.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_11: One goal, one game, one goal, one goal from the start.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_11: Down in the art of the black and brown.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_11: We watch the Super Bowl dreams till they all come true.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, there's a whole there's a whole song.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_15: I'm not gonna play the lyrics.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_09: Can I Google lyrics to the CBS intro software?
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_15: You can, I'm sure you can find it.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_15: That doesn't last too long, and CBS goes back to just the music for the intro.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_15: So uh before we leave the Steelers portion of this segment, one last thing.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_15: We played a bunch of national TV intros, but no local ones, because of course the games aren't televised by local stations or televised by the national networks.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_09: Well, except for preseason.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_15: Uh-huh.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_15: The only games that are on local stations are, like Steve said, preseason games.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_15: So just for good measure, here is a local preseason game opening from back in 1988.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_15: Steve, see if you can count how many things in here no longer exist.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_19: Brought to you by the Bell of Pennsylvania yellow pages.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_19: The buy back by Pittsburgh National Bank.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_19: The bank is built on private performance.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_19: That's by McDonald's.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_06: That's why McDonald's Live from RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., it's Pittsburgh Steelers preseason football.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_06: Tonight, the Steelers open the preseason against the Super Bowl champion, Washington Redskins.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_06: Hello again, everybody.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_06: I'm Stan Savern.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_06: Welcome to Pittsburgh Steelers Preseason Football.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_09: Nice.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_09: Savern and Jack Ham.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_09: Wow, wow.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_09: And of course, you know, I I was looking for my uh Pittsburgh National Bank, so I looked in my yellow pages and I found one immediately.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_15: Yes.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_09: I went to my yellow pages, I looked up my national, and then I was like, I wear some McDonald's, and I kept looking to fast food, and I I found that too.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_15: You drove to RFK Stadium?
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_15: Yes.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_15: To watch the Washington Redskins.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_09: With uh with Stan and Stan Savern was there, which Oh yeah.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_15: Stan Savern sadly no longer with us anymore either.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_15: So Yep, lots of lots of things that don't exist anymore, including the uh the concept of the Washington team being the defending Super Bowl champions.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_15: That's that's the same thing.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_09: Well they would they would win the Super Bowl like at least once more after that, I think.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_15: They would, but uh still a long time ago.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_15: When they even a long time ago that they even got you know within a a hair of it.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_15: So um so that's that's uh football.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_15: Let's let's go to baseball.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_15: And and when I was a kid, Steve, when we were both kids, I I feel like baseball was always very like romanticized.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_15: I think you saw that in like the Ken Burns documentary, I think you saw that in a lot of other places.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_15: And CBS did that a lot too.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_15: CBS gets the Major League Baseball contract in 1990, and that was the year that the Pirates got really good.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_15: So I remember a lot of their games being on CBS, big games.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_15: Now, if if a pirates game was on CBS, the first thing that came on was this bumper with this big booming voice that always made me feel like something important was about to come on.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_05: It's the Pirates.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_05: Coming up next from CBS Books, the National League Championship Series.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, it seems like, and we've just landed on the moon, by the way.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_15: Right.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_09: President Kennedy has been shot.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_09: Now on to baseball.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, like if that was a newspaper headline, it would be like in the big bold font, you know?
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_15: Uh and then and then CBS had this theme music that I gotta be honest, to this day still gives me chills.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_15: I every time I hear it, I'm like instantly transported back to a summer night in my childhood home on Churchill Road in Wilkins Township, watching baseball with my family.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_15: And the clip I'm gonna play here is from game seven of the 1991 NLCS.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_15: That is not the Sid Breen game.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_15: That's the year before.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I'm uh yeah, that's the year before where the Pirates and Braves were playing in game seven at Pittsburgh and the Pirates and Braves.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_09: They just got blown out.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, they they they lost they lost, just not in dramatic fashion.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_15: But anyway, here's uh the the immortal Jack Buck setting the stage for the season, all coming down to one game against the background of that CBS music.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_15: If you want to talk about a dramatic prelude to a game, in my mind it just doesn't get any better than this.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: How can a baseball team play so well for so long and still not be in the World Series?
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: 168 games without a payoff.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: What more do they have to do?
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: Mid-February until mid-October.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: All the trips, taxis, hotels and restaurants, away from the family, victories and defeats, double headers, hot streaks and swamps, injuries, sweltering days, and cold nights.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Can it really be true that the season will be over tonight for either the pirates or the brave?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Lose one game and collect only heartache.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Win only one more game and be in the World Series.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's the way it is.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: Tonight in Pittsburgh.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_15: Nice.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I just I just thought that was um man, it's just like such a poetic, dramatic, you know, setup for a game.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_15: It's like, gosh, it really, really just made you feel like the the gravity of what a big deal that was.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_15: Like the whole season comes down to this one game.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_15: And of course the pirates lost, so that part's not as fun.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_15: So that's the pirates on a national level.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_15: We'll talk more about the pirates on a local level later, but first I want to pivot to hockey.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_15: And of course, the NHL being a poorly run league has kind of floated around the different networks.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_15: Remember, Steve, when they were on the um hunting network or whatever, outdoor life was, I think it was called.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, yeah, when they first came out of lockout.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, it was like, now here's how you hook a beauty, a bass.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_09: And it was like the capital's at the senators.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_15: Uh uh the NHL is currently on ESPN, which is what they were on back when the Penguins had those great 1990s teams.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_15: So here's a 1990s era ESPN intro that I think a lot of people will remember uh, especially because of the music.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_20: For the past 25 years, Mr.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_20: Rogers has called this his neighborhood.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_20: He may have to do some sharing with 66 Mario Lemieux from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Igloo.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_20: TSPN's National Hockey Night, the New Jersey Devils and the Pittsburgh Packers.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_09: Nice.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_09: Nice.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_09: That's a great that's a great intro.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_09: What they uh they won.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_09: No, they did not win that game.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_09: It's at home, uh, game two of the problems.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_09: Uh yeah.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_09: Uh wow, that was uh was I think ESPN still uses the same music that they did.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_15: They did, they brought that they recomposed it, they had the guy recomposed it.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_15: It's similar, yeah.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_15: It's very simple.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_15: It's the same theme, yeah.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_15: Um yeah, and and so that was always like a big deal.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_15: Penguins had these big games on ESPN, but of course, the large majority of penguin games back then was on this network.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_05: Look out, Loretta.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_05: The boys of winter are back on KBL.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_05: It's the New Jersey Devil taking on the pants, live and exclusively Sunday night at 7 30 on the KBL Penguin Network.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, who doesn't?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_09: But that wasn't the Penguin song, though, or the Penguin on steroids.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_15: No, no, that was just that was the KBL, like they I think they had a very similar commercial like that, only they substituted the Pirates.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_15: So KBL was a cable channel that started in the 80s.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_09: It's ATT Sports or Root Sports or Pirate Sports, Pittsburgh Sports.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_09: It's the same network, it's just changed names ten times.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_15: Well, yeah, they they televised Penguins and Pirates games.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_15: It became, after it was KBL, it became Prime Sports, then FSN, then Root Sports.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_13: Here we go.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_15: Then ATT Sports Net.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_15: Now that they're owned by the Fenway Sports Group, I believe now it's just called Sportsnet Pittsburgh.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_15: Is that right?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_09: That sounds right, yeah.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_09: I don't get it, so I I don't know.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I don't either anymore because of my my subscription package that I have.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_15: But it's a um it's a it again, it was a cable station that televised m pretty much all the Penguins and Pirates games, and you really couldn't see those previously.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_15: So it was a big deal at the time.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_15: And uh they've been the main home of the Penguins for quite a while now, so let's play some old school KBL intros, starting with this one from the 1980s, with the theme music, Steve, that I think you were expecting.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_09: There it is.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_05: Pittsburgh Penguin Hockey is sponsored by IC Light, dedicated to the preservation of the wildlife, and by Iron City Beer.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_05: You can't keep an iron man down.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_15: Steve, you can't keep an Iron Man down.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_15: That's actually a scientifically proven fact.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_09: I that's what I hear.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_09: I hear it's very difficult to do that.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_15: Have you ever tried to keep an Iron Man down?
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_15: It's just not Oh no.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_09: I you know, I tried like for like 30 seconds once, and I said, alright, you gotta let this guy go.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, you had to give up because you can't do it.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_09: You gotta let him have his Iron City.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_09: Now, if you can take away his Iron City, then your your goal can keep it down forever.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_15: They're the heart, they're the soul, they're the backbone of those towns, too.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_09: That's what I hear.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_15: Um, a little history on that penguins theme music.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_15: Uh in 1983, Paul Staggerwald, who at the time was working for the Penguins, came up with this marketing gimmick called Boys of Winter.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_15: And that was all their commercials and tickets at ticket ads that year.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_15: Come see the boys of winter.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_15: And you even heard it in the KBL ad.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_15: Mike Lang said, Come, you know, the Boys of Winter on KBL.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_15: But they needed theme music to go with it.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_15: So Staggerwald's boss at the Penguins, Tom Rooney, he goes to the Needle Drop Corporation, which was an agency that specialized in providing instrumental music for TV and radio ads.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_15: And Needle Drop just has a bunch of music tracks that you can pick from.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_15: You know, they just have like dozens of production music tracks.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_15: Hey, you can just pick one to use.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_15: And uh Tom Rooney picks that one you just heard, but not for the Penguin Steve.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_15: He picks it for the Pittsburgh Maulers.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_15: I see.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_15: Uh so I guess he and Staggerwald decide it sounds more like hockey music, and they only used it in one Maulers commercial, so they make it the Penns theme, and now today it's like the beloved and iconic piece of Pittsburgh music.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_15: But I'd love to find the Maulers commercial that has that tune in it.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_15: That would be interesting to hear.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_09: I don't I haven't heard him play it.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_09: Do they still play it?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_09: I haven't heard him play it in a while.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_15: They play it at games, although it's a much more like modern version of it.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_15: So uh we'll hear it again here.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_15: Here's an intro from the Stanley Cup years of the 90s with that Boys of Winter theme having been recomposed to sound a little more dramatic and instrumental.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_15: Also, the Pittsburgh Brewing Company has changed its slogan by now.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_05: Pittsburgh Penguin Hockey is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_05: It's a bird thing.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_05: My Mellon Bank.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_05: You're why we do our very best.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_05: Buy the new Dodge for a great deal.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_05: See your local Dodge dealer today.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_05: My Crystal Pepsi.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_05: You've never seen a taste like this.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_15: Crystal Pepsi, Steve.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_09: I'm looking at my yellow pages right now for you.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_15: I don't I think they discontinued that pretty quickly, didn't they?
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_15: I don't remember that last thing.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_09: I get some down at Mellon Bank.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_09: They I think they brought it back like as like a like a nostalgia thing a couple years ago.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_09: Just like, you know, short-term release.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_15: Okay.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_09: It's not as popular as Baja Blast, that Mountain Dew flavor.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_09: People love that stuff.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_15: Interesting.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_09: Speaking of Gen Z, yeah, that their their crystal Pepsi is Baja Blast.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_09: Like if we're gonna play SAT questions, I guess.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_15: I don't think I ever had Crystal Pepsi or Baja Blast, so you're missing out on probably things that'll shorten your lifespan by five years.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_15: Yes.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_15: Good point.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_15: I probably don't need that.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_15: Alright, well, uh, let's play one final uh clip for the penguins from a few years later.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_15: And at this point, the powers that be at KBL or whatever they're calling themselves at this point have decided, you know what, this whole boys and winner theme music is lame.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_15: This is the 90s, man.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_15: People want a theme song.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_15: After all, that's what Monday Night Football was doing, right?
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_15: Monday Night Football had a theme song.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_15: So we could do our own hip theme song to get those coveted young viewers who have disposable income.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_15: So thinking of all all of that, they go with this offering.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_10: Smash my back with a hacksaw and the fingers game the bottom roll The Cold slick from turtle creek Mario's got another go Oh woah The ice is cold The fans ah The fans are kicking in the gear
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_09: Clever, clever.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_15: Kick ice hockey.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_15: Mike Lane catchphrases.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_15: What could go possibly wrong?
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_09: A lot.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_09: They tried.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_09: They tried.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_09: It failed miserably, but they tried.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, it it's it's not good.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_09: I don't understand why the ice was cold, but the bands were hot.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know what bands have being hot have to do with hockey, but I just I'm just a hockey fan.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_09: So kick ice hockey.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_15: Kick ice hockey.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_09: You know that guy when he sung that was like, this is gonna be the theme song forever.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_09: I'm gonna be famous.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_15: They're gonna play this on the radio and stuff.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_15: Yep.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_15: Uh so that's the era of the Penguins on KBL.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_15: As we said, the Pirates were also on KBL, and where the Pens had this boys of winter theme music, the Bacos also had uh this theme music, and I don't know the name of this one as it didn't quite have the staying power that the Penguins theme had.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_15: But I know Steve and I remember this one pretty fondly.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_17: Pirates 88 Hardball.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_17: Live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_17: It's the windup of the West Coast Road Trip, final meeting of the year in Dodgers Stadium between the Pirates and the Dodgers.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_17: It's a hot one in Los Angeles this afternoon, beautiful sunny day, a bit warm as the Bucks and the Dodgers wind up their visit.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_17: A very pleasant good afternoon.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_17: Welcome to Dodger Stadium.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_17: I'm John Sanders, along with Steve Blast.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_17: I wondered if that was John Sanders.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_09: It sounded like him.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_13: Mm-hmm.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_09: Wow.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_09: 80 degrees in Chavez Ravine in the summer.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_09: Boy.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_09: I guess that doesn't happen too much anymore.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_09: Uh yeah, that's impressive.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I I remember that.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_09: It was like let's go bucks.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know if they added the words lately, but I like the little baseball coming out of the cannon there in that promo.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_09: Shooting at the Dodgers.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_09: Dodge that, you dodger.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I was gonna ask you that, Steve, because you had mentioned that once before.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_15: You said that there were like words at the beginning of it, and I don't remember that.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_15: I wanna I wonder if that was before this.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_09: It was like let's go buck.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_09: It was like da da da let's go bucks.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_09: It was like more at the end, like where they would just kind of just fill in.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_09: They wouldn't really I mean there wasn't any other words except for let's go bucks and shooting baseballs at the Los Angeles Dodgers who, you know, just by being the Dodgers definitely deserved a baseball fired at them at high velocity.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, that was the again what you can't see here in the podcast, there's like a a a pirate looking through like a um like a telescope thing and he's firing a cannonball.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_15: Spyglass, yes, thank you.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_15: I cannot think of it.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_09: With his one non-patched eye.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_15: Right, right.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, with a parrot on his shoulder, no doubt.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_15: And then he fires a cannonball at the Dodgers to make them pay for you know being the Dodgers.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_09: So take that Steve Garvey.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know who was a Dodger in 1988, probably.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_15: I think well, 1988 would have been like Oral Herscher and Kirk Gibson and the year that they won the World Series.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_15: So yeah, you're you're not even in the same ballpark, Steve is the 1988 Dodgers, but good try.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_09: Steve Garvey was like what, 1984 or 83?
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_15: Uh yeah, probably probably a few years before.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_15: Not too far off.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_15: So hockey and baseball are great, but one of the best sporting events in the world, in my opinion, is the NCAA tournament.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_15: Here's an old school March Madness opening involving the University of Pittsburgh.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_18: Welcome to LCAA Basketball Action.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_18: We're in the Midwest region for the second round battle between the Vandeville Commodores and the Pitt Panthers as we welcome you to the Nevada East Sports Center in Lincoln.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_09: Why?
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_09: Why that game?
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_09: Why?
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_09: For the all of love of Jamie Dixon.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_09: Why would you and Charles Smith and uh Billy Gean.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_09: That was the Billy Gean game, wasn't it?
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_15: I believe so, yeah.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, Pitt Pitt loses that game uh in in overtime.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_09: Well he the I think the guy, Billy Gee, shoots like a half-court shot at like the buzzer to send it to overtime or something like that.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_09: Okay, okay.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_15: So but yeah, I I like the opening and I like the pit ban there.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_15: What that opening always makes me think of, Steve, is and I don't know if you remember this, but they used to let us watch these games in school.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_09: Uh no, huh?
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I know we went to the same school, but you must have been a different class than I was.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_09: I certainly wasn't watching any basketball.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_09: Not in school.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_15: In the library, in the library of our school, they would let us if it was like an hour.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_15: Did you sneak off?
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_15: No.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_15: No, no, no.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_15: It was it was like the the That had to be Mr.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_09: Collins that let you do that.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_15: I don't remember who the teacher was, but I remember watching multiple years games in the library that were like a Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_09: I was never invited.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_09: I was you you you ditched me and snuck off.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_09: That's entirely possible.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_15: Don't tell Steve.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_15: We're gonna go watch the game.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_09: Go into like Mr.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_09: Bishop in chemistry or something.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_15: That's entirely possible.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_09: Where is Tim and Mark?
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know, Mr.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_09: Bishop.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_09: They said they were coming.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_09: Little did I know that's what you were doing.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_15: Apparently so.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_15: Apparently so.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_15: I'm surprised you yeah, I okay.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_15: It happened.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_15: I promise it did.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_09: I'm sure it did, because like I with my luck and the way things went for me in high school, there's no way I was all ever allowed anywhere near this.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_09: The most I ever got out of class is when me and Tim Telly, like, because his father was the principal, they he would just like, hey dad, can we go wash the school vans or something?
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_09: And we'd go just hang out in the the garage of the high school.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_15: So maybe you were doing that while the rest of us were watching basketball.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, that sounds like way more exciting.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_09: I doubt it, but sure.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_15: Uh well that's college bat that's college basketball.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_15: Let's talk about college football, and let's go back to our old friends at the Columbia broadcasting system.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_15: Uh CBS has college football theme music that has become kind of iconic.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_15: And there was actually a big controversy a few years ago because for years CBS had televised the SEC, and when CBS purchased the rights to the Big Ten and started using the theme music on Big Ten games, a lot of SEC fans on social media were up in arms because they were like, no, that's the SEC theme.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_09: No, it's the CBS theme.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_09: Uh why are SEC fans so how can I say this politely, uh dumb?
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_15: Well, to your point, what I think those fans may not have realized is that CBS actually had been using that theme music for years, actually long before they were doing SEC games, as we will hear in this Pit Syracuse game intro from 1987.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_15: And as we play this clip, here's a fun game you can play along with at home.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_15: Count the number of Halloween references that Brent Musberger makes.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: The most familiar mask on the Pitt Panthers belongs to Craig Ironhead Hayward, the six-feet, 280 pounds, a bruising running back who gives the term big man on campus new meaning.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: With a killer defense, the Panthers hope to be the black cats in SU's path.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_00: And Coach Mike Gottfried knows a win today can propel them toward a bull.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a bewitching matchup for a Halloween Saturday.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: Syracuse versus Pitt here on CBS Sports.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_09: Wait a minute, Missouri and Oklahoma isn't playing?
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_09: Because I mean that's the SEC music, and those are two SEC schools, right?
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_15: Traditional SEC schools, too.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_15: Yes.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_09: I mean, what about you know Texas and Vanderbilt?
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_15: And Brent Musberger, man, black cats, masks, uh, what else?
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_15: Bewitching matchups.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_09: At least Ironhead.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_09: Ironhead looked pretty cool.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_09: I it was at least it was at Pitt Stadium, so I they gave us a 50-50 chance of at least beating Syracuse.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_09: Because if it was in the dome, we definitely lost that one.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_15: That's true.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_15: Uh so that's the that's the CBS intro to a pit game in 1987.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_15: Let's fast forward to the year 2022, and you will hear that same timeless theme music here 35 years later.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_21: And with that, we welcome you to Sunday.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_21: City, El Paso, Texas, the 89th edition of the Toby the Tigers Sun Bowl.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_21: And the sun is out.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_21: Our matchup.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_21: The Panthers of Pittsburgh and the Ruins of UCLA.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_21: And here come the Pit Panthers from the ACC.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, at least that's um like the better Sun Bowl.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_09: I thought you were gonna play the three to nothing Sun Bowl.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_15: No, no, no.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_15: Like I said, 2022.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_15: This was this was pretty recent.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_15: This was the game where they beat the guy that plays for the Browns now, DTR or DR D C.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_09: I still think he's gonna be a good quarterback, but I can't stand him.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_15: I was so happy that we beat him.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_09: His biggest problem is it worked out that guy's got the talent to be an NFL quarterback, and I'll stand by that.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_15: I think his biggest problem is his face is very punchable.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_09: Well, then I mean who talks trash like on like a pit defensive back for no reason.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_15: That guy.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_09: And then like gets hurt, kind of maybe, and then like doesn't do anything like to come back and help his team like when they're in trouble.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_09: He's got a lot of issues.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_09: Oh well.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_09: Well he's what a perfect fit for the Browns, huh?
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_15: Yep.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_15: That's for sure.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_15: Um, all right.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_15: I wanted to end this episode with this intro from game five of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_15: And and this one, this intro that you're about to hear, first of all, it's very old school because, like I said, by this point you didn't see these kind of dramatic preludes anymore.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_15: But I also felt like this one really transcended the team that was playing.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_15: And remember, this was the game where the city had an opportunity to see a championship won on Pittsburgh Soil for the first time since 1960.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_09: This is insane.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, this was an insane environment.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_09: I wish they would have won.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_09: I wish they would have won this game.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_09: That would have been they would have had to shut the city down.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_09: The city just would have shut itself down, nobody would have done anything.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_15: It was almost shut down before the game even started.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_15: It really was.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, like people just would have partied like all night if they would have pulled this off.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_15: Well, they they I was on the north side that day.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_15: People were partying all day.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_15: I mean, it was just I I've never, I've just never been in it, like you said, the environment was unique.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_15: Like I've never experienced something like that.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_15: And and like like Steve said, even though it didn't happen that night, I just felt like this intro from Doc Emmerich really captures and kind of like preserves that moment.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_16: Time is our most valuable commodity.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_16: And here in Pittsburgh, the hope is that this time will provide a moment that will last a lifetime.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_08: Your captain, number 87, Sydney Calder.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_16: A chance at history often brings reflection on all that has come before.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_16: This city worships its sports heroes.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_16: What a first to speed by Mary Olivier.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_16: Oh, you'd have to be here to believe it.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_16: The fans bleed the black and gold colors of their beloved teams and cherish their victories.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_16: Tonight, in the City of Champions, the Penguins can accomplish something that hasn't been seen here for 56 years.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_16: Will a fourth Stanley Cup be heard loud and clear at night and in Pittsburgh?
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_16: Only time will tell.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_16: Game five next.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_09: That's a good intro.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_09: I wish they would have showed like outside the arena a little bit, because that was that was nuts.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_15: I think that I think they did.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_15: I think they did after they you know played the theme music and came on.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_15: I think they had a shot of outside the arena.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_09: Like what was there was 30,000 people outside the arena?
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_09: Something insane.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_09: Like the arena only seats 17.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_09: So Yeah.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_15: It was again, it was it was a unique moment in not only in Pittsburgh sports history, but like in the history of the city.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_15: And it just it just did a good job, again, like I said, sort of capturing what the feeling was at that time.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_15: So I wanted to play that.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_15: So that's our episode on Pittsburgh Sports TV intros.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_15: I hope you found that interesting.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_15: Steve, any final thoughts?
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I don't know.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_09: I think we're gonna sneak off to the library to watch uh some great college basketball.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_09: I'm not telling you.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_09: I'm not telling you, Tim.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_15: I've now created a bitter, a bitter memory for Steve.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_09: You can you can stay in chemistry class.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_15: Oh man.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_15: All right, folks.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_15: Well, thank you so much for listening.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_15: We really appreciate uh everybody's support of our little show here.
• 54:40
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• 54:43
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• 54:46
  SPEAKER_15: All those links are in the show description, and we will catch you next time.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_14: No you can, no you can't, even Iron Man now.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_14: No you can't, no you can't, no you can't, no you can't, even Iron Man now.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_14: You're the heart.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_14: You're the heart You're the soul.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_14: You're the soul.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_14: You're the back bow.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_14: Now you can't Can't keep an Iron Man down.