Featured Highlight - Cardinals @ Bengals, 1997
*SONG IDENTIFIED* - 12/17/21
1997 was the last year where the NFL Primetime producers attempted to do a large-scale overhaul of the show's music. I say "attempted," though, because most of these new tracks didn't stick. Week 1 of '97 was particularly bizarre. There were 13 highlights that week (not counting the SNF recap on the non-live broadcasts); more than half of them used songs that were, to my knowledge, never used any other time on the show. Most of these tracks just didn't work, so kudos to the producers for both realizing that early and for replacing them with better new songs later (like Total News).
The very first Primetime highlight of 1997, featuring two teams that would not end up winning a lot of games, sadly includes one of the better oddball songs of Week 1. I apologize for the video quality of these Oddball Week clips in advance. Fortunately, the audio quality does not suffer nearly as much.
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