This may be the best intro to a televised sporting event ever. Pure classic shyt

[premier58]

Costas and Summerall were really good



2:45

The 1990 NFC championship game between the NYG/SF was epic as hell, too.

 

[ryderldb]

This is my personal favorite. Enter the sandman with a creepy little white girl saying he's baaack

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

I don't care what anyone says but Bob Costas was the goat at intros, whether basketball or olympics he made the event feel like a spectacle

Even the Olympic closing 2008 bob costas
Dope ass ending




You never gonna see something like this in 2024

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

The presentation/production values are night and day. Those NBC games felt like EVENTS. There was genuine buildup.

Now, like you said, it's just straight buffoonery.

Intro:

*Russell Westbrook shows up to the game in a dress and purse*

Malika: "Russ is coming with the swag tonight."

Kendrick: "You can tell that man is on a mission."

SAS: "The Knicks haven't had anybody this serious on their team in 25 years."

*Cut to commercial break*

All facts
Quality in everything sucks


Damn this is the greatest inteo
Anyone know this song

Why did the bulls lose game 4
@Buckeye Fever

This is my personal favorite. Enter the sandman with a creepy little white girl saying he's baaack

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

80S babies remember how epic this game was. fukking two juggernauts right there.

Man our teachers were all rocking Cowboys jerseys and putting up 3-peat posters. The AFC winner was viewed as a sacrificial lamb. Kinda thought the Steelers would get past the Chargers, especially AT the old Three Rivers Stadium but Natrone Means an em had other plans.

Ironically, I think the 1994 Cowboys team was their best squad except for injuries (Emmitt's hamstring + Erik Williams car accident) and coaching. If they kept Jimmy one more year and avoided the injury bug.....but the 1993 squad was legit. 4 losses, 3 of which were bullshyt (2 games without Emmitt + the lce Bowl Leon Lett debacle).

 

[tremonthustler1]

Even the Olympic closing 2008 bob costas
Dope ass ending




You never gonna see something like this in 2024

and that's what too many people are forgetting.

 

[Born2BKing]

This is my personal favorite. Enter the sandman with a creepy little white girl saying he's baaack

@ Marv casually shytting on the Knicks

"He's back and the Knicks have no one to blame but themselves".

 

[Born2BKing]

All facts
Quality in everything sucks


Damn this is the greatest inteo
Anyone know this song

Why did the bulls lose game 4
@Buckeye Fever

Yoooo that was fukking amazing. The thing about the NBC/Costas intros were that you could not even be a basketball fan and they would give you an idea of why the game you were about to watch was so special. fukking goose bumps watching every one of these posted in here.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Yoooo that was fukking amazing. The thing about the NBC/Costas intros were that you could not even be a basketball fan and they would give you an idea of why the game you were about to watch was so special. fukking goose bumps watching every one of these posted in here.

It was the perfect collision of (1) GOAT basketball player (Michael Jordan), (2) GOAT sports theme music, and (3) GOAT sports television-presenter,


Game 5 98 finals

 

[Professor Emeritus]

NBA on NBC might be the all time GOAT sports production.

The presentation/production values are night and day. Those NBC games felt like EVENTS. There was genuine buildup.

I don't care what anyone says but Bob Costas was the goat at intros, whether basketball or olympics he made the event feel like a spectacle

This is all cap, I was told on this site that all sports hype in the 1990s was purely organic and had nothing to do with the media.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[MikelArteta]

if you saw this why watching regular tv how could you not tune in?

 

[bigde09]

Facts. Costas a baseball guy and baseball maybe the best sport for storytelling. Also most of the tv commentators in that era started on radio.

Baseball and a radio background gave him the perfect skillet for those NBA on NBC intros

He also covered wrestling and worked for WWF for a hot second he don’t want you to know that tho

 

[Optimus Prime]

always loved the one comparing Clyde to MJ
"While MJ rules the airwaves, Drexler tolls out west in relative anonymity"

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I remember this day like it was yesterday.


"An artist returns to his true canvas"

Just want to say, the opening clip of him on the floor was him dribbling with his left up the court and also knocking down the 3.

Again, just saying.