Pro Football Action Vol. 1-3
Three volumes, six albums. At the risk of being overly boastful, this might be the greatest collection of music used in NFL Films and football highlight shows ever put together. One of my favorite pieces of music as a kid was the theme to Monday Night Football. I can hardly relate now the excitement I felt as a 10-year-old when those strings came in and Al Michaels, Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf appeared on the broadcast standing there in their yellow jackets. It meant the next few hours were going to be football, spectacle and that peculiar larger-than-life atmosphere that American television sports had in those days. I still get some of that same euphoria whenever I hear Johnny Pearson's Heavy Action . I also remember, in my teens, watching old NFL Films highlights, with "The Voice of God," John Facenda, narrating over the frozen tundra, the camera zooming in on a tight spiral, and the slow-motion ballet of linebackers crashing into a running back like armies mee...
