CHICAGO CUBS 1984 : WGN OFFICIAL INTRO IN (((STEREO SOUND)))

[@johnziccarelli8094]

RIP Eddie Van Halen

[@josephr4christ]

Remember coming home from school and turning the tv on to this song watching the cubs.

[@cwc8979]

Joe Rincon Yep and then you had the Braves on TBS and they had a good intro also. Today these pre games totally suck!! I miss those days in the 80s and early 90s.

[@krissanchez4816]

Joe Rincon same here. I’d leave school early. 😂🤣😂🤣. Couldn’t stand the braves and their “ America’s team crap”

[@aarondersnah863]

This video instantly takes me back to summer afternoons in 1984. I grew up in Michigan as a Tigers fan, but my Mom is from Chicago, so I like the Cubs too. During summer vacation, we would watch the Cubs in the afternoon and then the Tigers at night. As much as we wanted both teams to win, I don't think we could have dealt with a Tigers-Cubs World Series. During 1984, I got a see a twi-night doubleheader at Tiger Stadium and a game pitched by Rick Sutcliffe at Wrigley Field.

[@cwc8979]

The good old days.... I miss those days

[@BrianRetro]

My first exposure to this song was through the Cubs broadcasts on WGN. Had no idea who Van Halen was until years later. When I heard "Jump" for the first time with the lyrics I was like, "That's the Cubs theme!"

[@andrejg4136]

I mean being younger, I obviously had the opposite reaction. "How did the Cubs get the rights to 'Jump' by Van Halen?" By time I became a Cubs fan, WGN had gone to straightaway custom production themes again (1996).

[@djeanpierre]

I thought the same thing. I had no idea it was Van Halen until later down the line. I didn’t even know about David Lee Roth until 1985. Now every time I hear the song I think about the 1984 Cubs...lol

[@Whistler33]

My first exposure to this song as well

[@rockvilleraven]

In Washington, DC that last year of the Senators TV games there, they used the insturmental of Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4. I thought that was the Washington Senators theme before they moved to Arlington, Texas.

[@adamNDkipker]

Same here, 💯

[@brandonbond769]

I grew up in southwest Michigan and it was 95% Chicago fans and this hits hard. Millions of memories. Jody! Jody! Jody!

[@smill1985]

I live in Southwestern Michigan now--Kalamazoo.

[@grantbusse9073]

@@smill1985 Battle Creature right here!

[@smill1985]

​@@grantbusse9073 Battle Creature, lol! 😆

[@timburr4453]

and it should've been Cubs/Tigers 1984 WS Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, Portage...always lots of Cubs fans there

[@Cbear3450]

1984, that was a special season. Just wish it could have ended better. Something I’ve said about a lot of prior seasons before 2016 rolled around.

[@JH-lu9lx]

I agree, but think of it this way, the 1984 season ending the way it did just made 2016 all the more special.

[@djeanpierre]

I remember this as a 6 year old in 1984 growing up on the south side of Chicago. Good memories.

[@BigAl1976]

I turned 8 in 1984, and I lived on the north side, near the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (my dad was in the Navy). Good times.

[@Clark7466]

I had a coworker here in Indianapolis who also grew up on the south side of Chicago. He told me he and his mom were big Cubs fans despite being so close to Comiskey Park.

[@airfiero4772]

The Cubs were fun to watch in 84. This brings back good memories, thanks!

[@MrCHITOWN247]

I was 7 back then..and very much into baseball (especially the cubbies)...but I appreciated the road games more...because when the cubs played at home...I couldn't watch Heathcliff or the Transformers...Good ol weekday afternoon baseball.😁

[@victornewman06]

I remember this!! Summer of '84!

[@That0neMonkey]

Great memories of "the boys of summer". Another song that reminds me of the 1984 Cubs is John Fogerty "Center Field" as they always played it at Wrigley, esp during batting practice. It makes me so nostalgic...Baseball has changed so much since those days.

[@Dave-kz3uk]

zia1117 yah ok champ. Do u really think no other teams played "centerfield" at the ballpark or your team was the only one?

[@jestersfolly]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS! I grew up in the New Orleans area, but we had cable (thankfully), and they included WGN Chicago in the channel lineup. Because of this, many of my friends and I grew up watching the Cubs, and are still fans to this day. Thank you for posting this! The memories will never die. :)

[@chrisb8655]

I grew up 3 hours north in Jackson, MS, and had the same experience. I loved Channel 9, WGN, The Cubs, and Van Halen also.

[@brinagonzalez9104]

This version of Jump is still the timer music on my phone after all these years.

[@cupcakezinger717]

I remember this. Now I feel OLD.

[@That0neMonkey]

Awww man such memories! The Cubs had one helluva broadcast team back then with Harry, Steve Stone, Milo Hamilton and Lou Boudreaux. Can’t forget about Arnie Harris who put it all together!

[@donaldcasalone4243]

RIP (Rock In Paradise), EVH. "Jump" was the theme from the Cubs telecasts.

[@mitchl847]

Damn, that was a hell of a year for the Cubs!!!

[@torgerson5150]

I miss the old cubs like ryno, the hawk, dunston, back in the 80s

[@txmade8235]

I was 10 years old growing up in Texas Harry Carey was the reason I became a cub fan

[@marioaguileraiii8181]

Rest In Peace Edward Van Halen! Life long Van Halen fan and lifelong Cubs fan!

[@korpus10p]

Loved that pregame stuff from that era! Thanks for the post!

[@vmf226]

Cubs Win!!! Cubs Win!!! Cubs Win!!!!!!!!!!

[@GodfatherAstro]

we did it!!!

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

Im a North Alabama Cubs fan. RIP Eddie Van Halen

[@thomascollins4325]

That sure brought back memories!!! Go Cubbies!😊

[@TennesseeTuxedo]

Remembering this special song on the day that Eddie Van Halen passed away.

[@jimmythompson1979]

When I was 4 yrs old, I loved the cubs! And although I grew up in a teetotaler, fundamentalist family, I some how grew up to love Van Halen because of this opening!

[@trevorhembrough1290]

Iykyk. You just had to be there.

[@gomezesmorticia]

Go Cubbies 2016!!!!!!!!

[@82dorrin]

NL Champion Cubbies! Soon to be World Series Champions.

[@saheedalliu2716]

Rest in peace Harry Carry and Eddie Van Halen

[@jackwilson1324]

watched the cubs on cable in new orleans growing up...now 35 yrs later I live in southern Illinois and no Cubs on tv

[@chifanpatt]

badass! Wish I was alive to see this

[@joeferguson2606]

i wish someone had the mid 70s intro with "rocky theme"

[@MatinAmerica]

Just blasted this as we're down 2 going into the bottom of the 7th... Well, that and some Haray Caray "Take..." Rally time!

[@alexmorris6954]

I'm only 15, so I couldn't see this when it aired. But whenever Jump comes on, my dad cites this.

[@JH-lu9lx]

We dont suck anymore

[@samomac817]

The 80s Rock on

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

By 2020, What will WGN have in common with a sterile bear? *NO CUBS!*

[@davidgolden1607]

No cubs. (and that's a take off on an old Harry Caray joke!)

[@coxanovag2833]

R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen 😢 #GOCUBSGO

[@Clark7466]

Did the cubs use Van Halen for several years for commercials and promos?

[@mysoundrights]

Cubs used that intro for many years in a row.

[@sylviadavila4904]

Rest in peace, Eddie Van Halen

[@rds990]

Was at all 3 games in San Diego....bad stuff !

[@JoseTwitterFan]

R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

WGN-TV isn't what it used to be no more, now that there's cable TV doing the telecasting of Bulls, Blackhawks, White Sox and Cubs games as of 2022.

[@livmatrix]

Should have went to the World Series.. got robbed by not having game 5 at home...

[@cubsbearsandbulls]

livmatrix oh it was at home

[@livmatrix]

Game 5 was not at at home. They had to play three straight in San Diego because the MLB Comm wanted night games and Wrigley had no lights at the time.. As I mentioned we got robbed. We had a better record then the Padres that year.

[@cubsbearsandbulls]

thought you meant you not the Cubs

[@dansaint2249]

the rumor was...if Cubs made the World Series....that WS games would of been played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Not sure if it's 100% true but that was the rumors I remember hearing.

[@andrejg4136]

@@dansaint2249 That would have been insane. At least Comiskey (now Garaunteed Rate) is right there in the city and had full lightning if they needed their night games so damn bad.

[@BarryJowers]

My childhood in the 80's

[@pigalow2002]

I want to see a World Series Champs tribute video with this intro(part of it at least, the song for sure, & 1984 graphics)

[@smill1985]

That would be pretty cool. Not a bad idea!

[@pigalow2002]

This '84 team should've been in the WS too, it was their destiny! What a great team & great summer that was. It's like a tear in the fabric of spacetime that this team lost to San Diego! It's not right.

[@vickilevene9205]

RIP Eddie Van Halen and Harry Caray!

[@JH-lu9lx]

We don't suck anymore

[@ryandonato550]

We do now....

[@steveprestegard5151]

This wasn't what WGN used at the start of the year, apparently, but WGN switched to this at some point. Good choice.

[@nicksimon7364]

That’s a great call not many ppl remember that but the switchover was sometime around Memorial Day

[@johnlambert8962]

I used to get this intro when I was a kid!

[@joereece7335]

Wanted the Tigers to play the Cubbies in 84 instead of that Flaky padres

[@AddisonMorris-j6f]

Tomasa Fork

[@2000cobraguy]

Then Van Halen made them stop

[@hoosierflatty6435]

Is it April yet?

[@SamsonRoy-s5k]

2490 Ila Tunnel

[@canyonoverlook9937]

The Cubs ruined the song for me. I don't want to think about the Cubs every time I hear Jump I wonder how much WGN paid Van Halen.

[@scottyblog]

Those were the days. Now they have destroyed baseball. MLB is about pitch clocks, no collisions with the catcher, no chewing tobacco and advertisements on the jerseys. It’s a disgrace…

[@mysoundrights]

R.I.P Eddie Van Halen

[@bobo121476]

RIP Eddie Van Halen