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The 1985 season saw a new theme utilized throughout both the pregame show and game-opening sequence. This theme would be utilized for the remainder of the decade. Another music selection was used for the "Great Moments" segment, a segment of clips from older games on NBC that was unique in that instead of the NFL Films footage, NBC used their own footage and audio.
"Heavy Action" is a musical piece composed by Johnny Pearson for KPM Music.Composed in 1970, and featuring a strong brass and string fanfare opening, "Heavy Action" soon became a well established sporting theme tune, most associated in the United Kingdom as the theme for Superstars [1] and in the United States as the theme music for ABC and ESPN's Monday Night Football. [2]
Singer-songwriter Pink performed the theme song in NBC's first year airing Sunday Night Football in 2006. Country singer Faith Hill, who sang a new arrangement of the Jett "I Hate Myself for ...
For NBC's coverage of Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017, A capella group Pentatonix sang the opening theme song called "Weekend Go." The song is a reworked version of their original song "Sing." NBC also used the TNF main theme music called "Can't Hold Us Down," performed by members of the Broadway orchestra for Hamilton.
For the 1985 season, NBC used Graham De Wilde's composition "Send Them Victorious" for their official theme music for the NFL. On January 26, 1986, the Chicago Bears defeated the New England Patriots 46–10 in Super Bowl XX at the Louisiana Superdome.
Finally, in September 2023, the theme song landed on its current tune: "In The Air Tonight," performed by Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg and Cindy Blackman Santana. How to watch Monday Night Football
There will be a lot of music in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI telecast, and no, we’re not talking about the halftime show — rather, the music at the start of the show and throughout the game itself.
The theme was first used for the NFL on CBS in 2003. The songs were also used to introduce, to conclude, and to segue to commercials on Westwood One's NFL game coverage and halftime programming. It has since been replaced with a new score commissioned by Westwood One since 2013.