NFL Films Music, Sam Spence, Classic NFL Music, The Over the Hill Gang, Autumn Thunder 

THIS is the reason the NFL became the phenomena it is today. The music that shaped our youth.

Maybe it's because I was a kid and nothing else mattered but this is when I enjoyed football the most.

Childhood memories of the 70s ,every Saturday night at 7pm, This is the NFL!

RIP Sam Spence!! Thanks for all of this iconic music!!

It doesn't get any better than this music and memories of nfl highlights

Who needs caffeine when you listen to this beautiful music!!

Early 70s was the high water mark of NFL films music.

I use to listen to this great music when I use to get ready to play high school and college football. Great music to listen too while training 🏈

Brings me back to my childhood when I first starting watching NFL highlights, NFL Game of the Week and This Week in Pro Football.

My eyes water, I get chills up and down my spine and goosebumps all over whenever I hear this music. GREAT STUFF!!! Thanks!

Me and my friends in our neighborhood would watch NFL highlights with this music and when it was done we were so motivated we could not wait to get outside to play. We played from 9 in the morning till almost 7 at night on Saturdays. Some of the greatest times of my life and why I've played football for over 50 years now. (side note...loved the over the hill gang...favorite player Larry Brown)

This brings me back to a better time. Watching my real Oakland Raiders on Sunday. It was dark here in NYC but the sun was shining bright on the west coast. And then begging my mother to let me stay up and watch MNF even though I had to get up 6am to get ready for school the next day. That is why I will always and forever by a NFL fan. Thank you to all who are and was associated with this wonderful organization. Thanx for the music and the memories.

I never thought that I would be able to download this song; it’s available on the iTunes Store; and I’m going to download it! I’m 62 years old; and I remember listening to this song in the late sixties, and early seventies!

I could not wait to watch this week in pro football with pat sumerall and tom brookshire at 4pm evry Saturday and followed with nfl game of the week back in the 70s

I grew up listening to this music. Still gives me goosebumps. Nothing will top it!!

Steve you changed the way fans look, think and feel about football. I personally and thousands even millions of fans are forever in your debt. You will live on through NFL films forever. RIP to the best Steve Sabol...

I also grew up watching NFL Films and the accompanying music as well. The memories I have , will take to my grave I promise. With many of us.....it's almost as if it was a religion, a brotherhood of sorts. Have had countless discussions about the times and the players of back then here on RU-vid. I NEVER get tired of hearing/watching !!

This brings back great memories. Growing up in late sixty, early 70, NFL game a the week highlights with Pat Summeral Tom Brookshire. John Fucenta...Slow mo, great stuff. ...Me, kenny Fitz, Ricky Collins, John Milner,, loved it....Incredible to this day. Gives me chills listen, man, great stuff

Rainbows in the End Zone.Good gracious ! I think back to 1973, when my beloved Vikings won to finally reach the Superbowl.I had waited 4 long years for this.At the time it was almost half a lifetime, and now they where back in it.Granted it was 39 years ago, but I've never forgotten a more perfect feeling, such a thrill to be alive.It was that big of a deal for me.This track takes right back to those times, very fortunate to be able say/type that.

I grew up as a kid in the '60s and '70s playing sports and these songs are a part in a perfect blend of music to the times and expresses how the game was seen by fans and the passion the players on the field had for the game. And yes, it is an Era gone by ...but what an Era it was!...Rainbows to the End Zone is a fitting finale

Thank you Sam Spence for the music. The memories of your music and Ed Sabols film will be with me always.

Reminds me of the old Miami Dolphins teams of the early 70's. Super memories!!!

You hear these songs and in your mind you see Unitas setting up to pass, Jack Lambert crushing a runner, Larry Csonka crashing through the line for a 5 yard gain, or Gale Sayers returning a punt for a TD...poetry in motion!

As a you kid I remember listening to this great music watching slow motion highlights. Great memories that I recall to this day. Thanks, Sam for giving so much enjoyment to many boys back in the day.

I am an Over-the-Hill Gang fan. I loved Coach Allen.s teams. I loved the era. Nothing better than a Redskins - Cowboys game. Allen vs. Landry. I miss those days so very much. I am 59 and it is not the same. Thank you. Robert Capen

RIP Steve - What a great contribution to the the league and fans. You will be missed good sir.

I love music from NFL films. The music from NFL films is what makes football so awesome, and prepares the fans for the season

Loved the music as background for NFL highlights back in the 70’s. Still gives me goosebumps!

I've listened to this music and appreciated Sam Spence's talents for over 40 years,is orchestra is magnificent I wish there were more background information on them.

Couldn't get enough of this when I was a kid...I lived for football back then...it seemed so much more about the game than it does now...I really miss those days...this music is second to none..

I don't know how you could overestimate the contribution this music made to the growth of the league... when I was a kid in the 70s, we used to sing these songs to our own "championship plays" in backyard pickup games.

The weather, the field conditions, tough players back then. A difference between tough and strong. Tough engages and strives regardless of any factors.

This music from NFL films has been very helpful in relieving me of my stress. Its also helping me think about football season

Nothing says NFL more than this music. I would watch the pre-game videos back in the day with the guys looking rough and tough, blood streaming down the faces of the athletes and hearing the music in the background sometimes I would tear up. Thank you Sam RIP.

The 70's beyond a doubt the best generation and most important in nfl history. Raiders,steelers,cowboys,dolphins,rams and vikings.Games played in the snow , hard hits , hall offamers great coaches and mnf wow.

The 70s were the golden age of NFL Films.Before ESPN came along,the only way to see highlights of NFL games was through their two weekly shows-This week in the NFL with Pat Summerall and Tom Brooksheir and The NFL Game Of The Week with Ray Scott.This memorable music was part of the whole weekly package.

I'm 64 and I remember all this songs brang back a lot of good memories I loved football and still do

RIP Sam Spence :( What a great legacy in music.

I love listening to this music. It brings me back to my youth watching NFL highlights from NFL films. I can hear the voices of John Facenda and Harry Kalas without them speaking as I listen and see old time greats on the gridiron in my mind. Amazing!

Absolutely 6400.I'm 47,been a football fan my whole life.I may be biased because I'm a Steelers fan, but I think the 70's were the greatest football decade and the music NFL used back then is the absolute best!

As a youngster growing up in the 60's and 70's I couldn't wait each week for the weekly highlights shown on NFL Films just so I could listen to this great composition of great music. Thank you Sam Spence...RIP

This is the music which inspired me to play touch football during my free time. This music should be a team requirement to listen to for every NFL team.

Not many joyful memories from childhood, but watching NFL highlights once a week with this music in the background is one of them. The NFL was rare and special in those days. Fourteen games per team in a season, only two televised games on Sunday per region - the rest of the games by highlights only -, one game on Monday, making the Saturday games in the last two weeks of the season even more special, and then the playoffs concluded by the end of the year, the Super Bowl often being anti-climatic. Joyful, rare and special, as are the memories evoked by this music. two

Classic music from weekly NFL highlights/game of the week. Back in the day. :-)

It's like I'm playing Madden 2007 again. This music makes me want to watch a game. And it's the perfect time of year!

I wish the NFL would go back to these old songs when they show highlights of the games. This was the original Best Music of the NFL.

The early 70s was the golden age of NFL FILMS.

Just Awesome. Each week we would sit and listen to this as broadcast "This Week in the NFL". There was no ESPN, so this was how we got our highlights for that Sunday"s games.

For someone who grew up in the 70's this is GREAT SHIT!!!!

Like the sense of smell, hearing this instantly brings me back to a place that will never exist anymore: the field where it all happened. A place where not only we played football as kids, but acted out each of our pro football heroes' greatness and athleticism. Would we have dove for the ball or stopped the rush as fiercely if we hadn't watched the Sat. show "This Week in Pro Football" earlier that morning? I doubt it. Football on those Saturdays was our Ticket to Freedom and man, did we flew high! People ask me why I don't watch the NFL today...it's bigger, has more skilled athletes, and is a lot more entertaining. I just shrug my shoulders and say, "Cuz it bores me." And it really does. Every time I sit and try to watch a whole game, I think back to the games of the '70's. Before long, I'm watching something else. I think the sport of Football and its world class athletes back then was born by accident - simple, tough, real - and not created by the marketing Gods of today. Money found Football and changed it forever. Thank God I got a peek of the real deal when I was young. RIP Sam Spence and thanks for posting/ reading this.

Some of the greatest music ever made !

6/25/21 still the best NFL music RAINBOWS TO THE ENDZONE!!!

Holy crap! This music takes me WAY back to a good place and time! :-)

Talk about setting the bar high with the first selection!; The OTHG makes my hairs stand on end--But Rainbows To The Endzone makes them come out of my skin!

Ah bro, bless you for those songs. I have been looking for those for so long. Reliving my childhood with long high white socks, catching imaginary touchdowns as Drew Pearson over the Steelers on my mother's sofa.

The Over the Hill Gang is, in my opinion, the best song on the Autumn Thunder collection. As a lifelong Washington Redskins fan it has added significance as the title is the nickname given to George Allen's Skins teams of the 1970's. "Just Remember This, Forty Men Together Can't Lose" 12/31/1972 George Allen

This is The Music That Made Me Fall In Love With Pro Football!

Love this!!!! Takes me back to my childhood playing football on a vacant lot in the cold on a late fall evening after watching your favorite team play on tv. Whens the last time you saw kids playing sports on a vacant lot?

very fond memories of this when I was a kid, but this is presently my 'get swole' music... RIP Steve Sabol

RIP Sam Spence (d. 6 Feb 2016, age 88...the day before the 50th Super Bowl).

Thank you.....a fellow member of the fraternity I pressume.

Beautiful musical memories .....

You got that right. Sometime I play this on evenings and weekends when i'm at the office working. These kids that work for me, when they dane to come into the office at those same times, just look at me with blank stares when I try to explain to them why I love it so much. They don't understand that Fran Tarkenton dodging defensive ends in slow motion to the music of Sam Spence and the voice of John Facenda at 9 am on a Sunday morning is 12 year olds idea of art. STILL IS!

I miss the NFL of the 70's. The music of Sam Spence, the NFL pregame shows were better, Pat Summerall and Tom Brooksheir with This Week in Pro Football. The games were usually completed in less than 3 hours, fewer TV commercials, the players weren't trash talking and showboating after every play. The game was much more enjoyable to watch back then. Ah yes, the good old days.

That's not geek. That was the reality of growing up in the seventies. Who cannot envision a perfect slo-mo spiral soaring across a crisp autumn sky while Rainbows to the End Zone is playing. We once embodied our own highlight reels, perfectly constructed in our minds. RIP Steve.

Yes, I was that geeky kid in my neighborhood who would toss the football to himself with the NFL Films music playing in my head after watching "This Week In the NFL" with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. Some of those songs still stop me in my tracks.

Great music NFL Films baby

I know many of you are too young to have heard this but back in the 60's, NFL film was just a fledgling and slow mo highlights were the rage...The funny part was the music that put to the film...One of the classy songs was a semi-jazz version of "WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR"...It was hot!

The Over The Hill Gang. Those were real men!! :)

You HIT the nail right on the head......That's the tune. I thank you very much. This tune is so 1970s Dallas Cowboys for me because of Captain Comback=Roger Staubach. ....Thanks again!

This music is sooooo gooooooood. Chilling.

Memories of this week in pro Football.

All of sudden im 12 years old again. Watching This Week In The NFL,on channel 5. Drinking a Pepsi and eating Dorritos. Cool!

The greatest!!! Watching "This week in the NFL" in the 70"s. Dan Pastorini getting mauled on a sack. Norm Snead wearing that great white Eagle helmet with the green wings. Billy Kilmer with a 1 bar facemask on his helmet -- the old Redskin helmet with the spear.. John Brodie deep to Gene Washington. Put the NFL back on the map. I love it!!

Every Saturday, watching This Week in Pro Football, then playing with the Neighborhood Gang. in those crisp autumn days . I'm not the Man I am now. I'm the Kid I was back then......

Reminds me of John Stallworth making a spectacular TD catch against the Rams in Super Bowl 14.

Love that music! Thanks for sharing!

This was when The NFL was fun to watch. They played to win and not for checks!

Ooo.. my favorite of the Classic NFL films music scores.. Very nice

Steve Sabol will live in eternity thanks to NFL Films!

shiiiiiii...... Jack lambert, Dick Butkus, Deacon jones, Jack Tatum !!! Guys who played!!

The godlike genius of Sam Spence.

This is not only great sports music, it's great music, period! How can 37 people not like this? They must be under 50 years old!

I don't know about you, but I get pumped from playing Tracks 1 & 2 and remembering, but by the time Rainbow in the End Zone comes through, I'm a big mess, weeping aloud from reminiscing about the Football of Yesterday and the endless Saturday games we used to play.

The blood the sweat the tears...Football

God how I love The NFL

Now that's what I'm talking about for this is a must for NFL fans like myself.

Thanks for all the great music in Madden RIP Sam!

My brothers and would play football in slow motion humming this song . It beat playing with a freaking i phone or a computer ..... great memories

Oh, no! ... I hear you brother!... I am the same geeky kid over on the next block doing exactly that!... I loved and still love the drama of those tunes!

Players who I LOVE to watch when this music plays: Ken Stabler, Roger Starbaugh, Walter Payton, Dick Butkus, Fran Tarkenton

Reminds me of when we were kids in the snow.....beating the living Hell out of each other. Frozen Rainbows to the End Zone...Fantastic memories of our own personal sountracks.

still listening in AUG 2020 FFL DRAFT!!!

@targetvideo1 I thought I was imagining a music, that was in my mind as a child. Then I heard Sam Spence's "The Over The Hill Gang" with that Coronet high above, all alone. Equal to Beethoven's 7th & Mozart's Requiem in my mind. Thank You !

Dan Pastorini getting mauled in the backfield ---- Billy Kilmer with the old redskins helmet, and only 1 facebar. Bud Grant on the sidelines. Cool stuff!!!

One of my favorite NFL films song..remember the Over-the-Hill-Gang very well. Jack Pardee, Richie Pettibone, Myron Pottios, Maxie Baughan, Diron Talbert, Tommy Mason, Jeff Jordan, John Wilbur, Boyd Dowler, Verlon Biggs, Ron McDole and in a way Billy Kilmer too.

Music to my ears

It Took Me Forever to find this!! I swear it did!! Especially the first tune(My All Time Favorite!) Man,Memories Of Howard Cosell Doin The NFL Highlites,Memories Of The Chicks In High School, The 70's were the best years,Better Music,songs Real Hamburger Meat In The Mcdonalds,(Now They Use Bone Marrow from the animal to make their Hambuger Meat) Everything sucks today,lots of bullshit goin on from the govt.,all the way to Player loyalty,All sports,Should Never Have allowed Players Gettin Traded!

you too?! excellent - the snow and mud of Boston and the Rainbows - nice one

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!