Featured Highlight - Oilers @ Browns, 1987 (Replacement-Game Week 2)
There have been some odd choices for NFL Primetime highlight songs over the years. Mortal Combat immediately springs to mind, though that was only used once. A few of the songs from Oddball Week (Week 1, 1997) were also rather awkward. I'm not sure any accompaniment choice was more bizarre than the Submix (i.e., underscore) for Action Scene, however. Underscores are supposed to remove things like the melody and/or the high-pitched instruments, but the Submix for Action Scene sounds like someone pointed a full-blast flamethrower at the heart of the song. To call it minimalistic is an understatement, and I'm surprised ESPN actually put it on a football video. I guess it's appropriate that a "replacement" piece like the Action Scene Submix was only used for two 1987 replacement games. The clip below, of the replacement Oilers edging out the replacement Browns in front of the Dawg Pound, was its last use.
As an aside, the Nichion quasi-legal(?) streaming service has been down for a while. I'm still linking it above in case the site comes back, but I'm not sure that's likely.
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