John Colby apparently loved playing underscores throughout the first year of NFL Primetime. By my count, there were 7 underscores/submixes/rhythm-only versions of songs used at least once throughout the show's 1987 season. In fact, the underscore of Powerhouse was used most every week of 1987 while the regular version was seemingly used just once. The Solar Winds underscore, the only one of those seven that I hadn't posted about yet, was used a couple times during the strike. It's a pretty standard underscore in that it just removes the solo melody parts from the original and leaves the rhythm and bass stuff intact. It's not like the bizarro Action Scene submix that sounds like some sort of abstract experiment in minimalism. The Solar Winds underscore doesn't work with highlights as well as the regular version, but it's passable and not off-putting.
Throughout the 1987 players' strike, NFL fans had a lot of fun coming up with mocking nicknames for the replacement squads. For example, there were the San Francisco "Phoney-Niners," the Miami "Dol-Finks," and—as you'll see at the end of the highlight below—the Los Angeles "Masque-raiders." (credit to this article for giving me the first two). The game itself wasn't that interesting, but at least it had some humor attached.
