NFL on CBS - 1998 Week 1 The NFL Today 4pm Intermission Show

First week of the NFL on CBS. This is The NFL Today show that aired for markets that only received a late 4:15 p.m. game. Jim Nantz anchors, with Marcus Allen, Brent Jones, George Seifert as commentators.

[@JohnDoe-gk7ok]

This is why KZbin is so awesome: You can relive things like the moment before Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning began their notable (for obviously different reasons) careers. Also, we get to experience Seifert’s infamous broadcasting career.

[@otaviofrn_adv]

I was young to witness what seems to be a tirefire of a journey. But he barely talked, and when he did he seemed drunk or uniterested. The drunk criticism was made to Summerall also, but he was interested in the game at least. George couldn't care less, riding the coattails of a great team that fgell on his lap once Bill Walsh retired

[@victoruribe2465]

CBS’ return to the NFL brought back the network’s former glory.

[@ntcw]

Great clip! I do have a correction though, CBS had the doubleheader in Week 1 of the '98 season. I remember the CBS station in my area showed Oilers Bengals and then the Jets/49ers. This intermission show aired between games for those 1 PM games that had ended.

[@ArshadKhan-ys9ey]

4 years later, Brad Johnson leads the Bucs to Super Bowl 37 trophy 🏆!

[@epzik8]

This was CBS's very first NFL Today as the AFC network after they picked up that package from NBC.

[@thedude19766]

+epzik8 I read on Wikipedia that NBC and CBS traded each others sports rights in 1998 after the season (1997 NFL season) that NBC and CBS wanted trade: NBC got 2002,2006 and 2010 winter Olympics for CBS carried the AFC rights that they hold to this day, and is a win-win for both NBC and CBS and FYI love the 98 NFL Today set!

[@bradjames891]

that's true. All of my life before this, the AFC games were on NBC. Broncos-Packers in Super Bowl 31 was NBC's last NFL broadcast with the AFC contract

[@allengreene9954]

+Brad James Although CBS has done great with the AFC, it's still strange not to see the NFC on CBS and the AFC on NBC. Plus Monday Night Football on ABC.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

Allen Greene Throughout most of my life it was CBS w/ AFC and FOX w/ NFC

[@otaviofrn_adv]

@@bradjames891 Super Bowl 32 no?

[@jamallugo6544]

I remember Watching Jets-49ers game on WCBS TV NYC

[@richiebee1984]

By the way who won.just asking I'm a huge giants & jets fan

[@HowardLive]

richie bee 49ers won it 36-30 in OT, when Garrison Hearst broke off a 96-yard gallop to end it. That game was a serious barn-burner; Jets lost, but for CBS it was a great and entertaining way to relaunch their NFL coverage.

[@jamallugo6544]

@@richiebee1984 Giants won and Jets loss in Overtime to the 49ers

[@Mario-cv5el]

Love that they used the old NFL Today theme

[@JHollowayNetwork]

That's the 1998 version of "Horizontal Hold", then for the 1999-2000 season they used another remix of the theme and then they made the NFL on CBS theme also serve as the theme for The NFL Today respectively for the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons respectively before bringing back the 1998 theme for the 2002-03 season then paving the way of "Posthumus Zone" (which served as the theme for both The NFL Today and NFL on CBS since '03).

[@kristopherversteegt2939]

​@@JHollowayNetworkThere was also a hip-hop version of "Zone" that was also used until 2010.

[@zechariahcameron3645]

I miss Jim Nantz in the studio lol.

[@MrBowtie1982]

surprised cbs send the audience joining at 4P out to Jax/Chi ending. this was the debut of double header games starting later at 415 (later 425).

[@vdubproductions2646]

Seifert was such a disaster in the studio.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

He was dismissed before the regular season ended.

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

The Jets-49ers game aired on KPIX channel 5.

[@TheAlfrulz]

@9:20 - lol as I'm reading the graphic. Well that's a long awkward name for a stadium.

[@cfoster81]

Yeah, it didn't sound right back then since it was next to Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Also some guy named Harbaugh would be a Raven 10 years before his Brother would coach us

[@yourboyken7871]

M&T BANK Stadium's first regular season game. That is a weird naming

[@otaviofrn_adv]

they did not have a naming rights deal locked yet. And when they locked one, it was a disaster (PSINet, dotcon bubble). Now they are stable with M&T Bank

[@DeAngeloStevens]

Jennifer "Jenny" Foxworth's first day in College at Columbia College in New York City, New York.

[@Mario-cv5el]

I like the look of the AFC Seahawks

[@blobulous3500]

Why don't they bring back these graphics

[@marlonnicholson8410]

NBC was better

[@damienkirksey7026]

I agree

[@BigDave50]

I agree to

[@davidford3968]

The 98 season was just weird all the way around

[@owenpeterson]

Marcus Allen's in the Hall of Fame. Brent Jones has won 3 Super Bowls with the 49ers, and 2 of them were under George Seifert's tenure as 49ers head coach. Do you think Brent and George should get Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions?

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

owenpeterson they're not more deserving than Cliff Branch and Tom Flores.

[@owenpeterson]

I have nothing against inducting them. Quite a few legends who have yet to be inducted.

[@AlextheSportsFan]

Yes and Yes

[@otaviofrn_adv]

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Tom Flores finally in

[@TimmyTickle]

Word is Seifert’s stint with the Panthers (especially their God-awful 2001 season) ruined his hopes of making it into Canton

[@Mario-cv5el]

What kind of oil are you getting from those Tennessee oilfields

[@stantheman8609]

Stolen history.

[@fromthehaven94]

Music notes?

[@andymotl]

Minnesota @ 7:41

[@kenp7814]

The big News ... the Browns didn't lose !!

[@fromthehaven94]

A relatively meaningless Steelers Ravens game. I miss that.

[@raekwonparker3793]

the NFL today Phil Sims

[@joebradio]

That Leaf guy will go places, don't expect much from that Manning guy

[@ryanstrnad8442]

+joebradio Yea, Leaf will go to places (in the back of police cars). And what was his name? Manning? Yea, he didn't do much...In one of the four Super Bowls he led his' team to. SB 48. Losing 43-8.

[@Rebmetpes4]

Wiow! Imagine that!

[@allengreene9954]

+Ryan Strnad Well now he's a two time Super Bowl champion.

[@ryanstrnad8442]

Back when Peyton won his first Super Bowl. he hosted Saturday Night Live, and during his monologue there, he said that he was asked, "What does Tom Brady and the circus have in common?" Answer; "They both have two more rings than (Peyton Manning)".

[@Haurko01]

6:00 I loves me some old-school Seahawks highlights.

[@joejay4646]

Yeah especially getting to see Bobby Galloway play.

[@TrentonMatthews]

Fun Fact: KZbin for awhile blocked this video in the USA, do to said theme song. Me wonders how in the world this was able to be reinstated? Hmmm... Also, it may have been CBS's doing.

[@AlanFernandoGamino]

Peyton Manning the living legend NFL QB

[@kevinthomas2906]

Jim Horribaugh

[@Mario-cv5el]

These nfl pre game shows suck now. There are too many people at the table saying too much non sense. It was way better when it was a 30min show with 2 maybe 3 guys talking. Now you have 5 or 6 guys can barely fit everyone on the set and it's all scripted

[@hiker-uy1bi]

what cringey interactions between all these guys...