No audio or video, but I remember that well, from whatever Hartford channel used to carry the Ch. 38 feed at that the time. My brother used to walk around the house singing it. We thought it was oh-so-clever; put your FEET up, and be a SOX watcher. See what they did there?
 

Cool! Can you remember what year it would have been? And what was the video, just highlights I take it?

And I actually hadn't seen what they did there till you said that, ha.
 

This rang such a bell I had to do some searching.

Check the comment from MJQ: http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=168090&st=0&p=2992787&#entry2992787
 

We posted simultaneously there... Okay so she says '72-'73...we're narrowing it down. I want video!
 

I remember this as being the intro before game coverage began. I can't remember if there was any real video or just station and Sox logo stuff.

(And of course you had to take your shoes off before you could put your feet up and be a Sox watcher.)
 

I found a reference confirming that this was the intro to coverage, and Youtube videos of Ch 38 promos from the 80's/90's ending with "Put on your Sox" which I take as a reference to their old jingle, but no video with the jingle itself - not surprising since this was before the proliferation of VCRs.
 

Thanks.

I know in the 80s they had a "The Game is On" jingle based on "The Heat is On."
 

Oh I remember that jingle well. It was on TV all the time in the local Portland, Maine television station's low-tech promos for their games. I have a vague recollection that it may have been a montage of pictures of the Red Sox doing various baseball-chasing, pitching, and hitting activities. I was a kid and not a fan yet. They played that jingle for a couple of years before I got into baseball. Man, I hope I didn't become a fan *because* of that jingle! Oh man. No, it can't be. I became a fan of the Red Sox because baseball is great, and in retrospect, loving the Red Sox and hating the Yankees were as natural as breathing. The way the Yankees acted! The way Steinbrenner bought his teams! The way Bowie Kuhn prevented the Red Sox from acquiring good pitchers from the A's! Lately the Yankees have almost been behaving themselves, so it is becoming harder to hate them. But that jingle -- that jingle *defined* a certain period of my youth, even before baseball. I would love to have a tape of it.
 

Glad I could help bring back some memories--especially with a 2-year old post!
 

The video was of Reggie Smith running around the bases in slow motion and then sliding in a cloud of dust.
 

Nice, thanks!
 

Chiming in now ten years after the initial post. The jingle was going through my head, did a search, and it brought me to this page (and thanks for getting all 3 'relax'-es into the last line--some commenters on other sites only have it said twice, but I definitely recall three as being accurate).

I didn't start following the Red Sox until '76, by which time the televised games were using a different intro, but I did have elder siblings who tuned in, and I definitely remember that intro. This would have been over the Portland, Maine, affiliate, which I think at that point would have been WGAN (now WGME). I do feel confident that it was still in use up through the season before I became a regular fan, which would have been the 1975 AL championship season (yeah, I know, bad timing on my part), and that it had been in use for a couple of seasons or so before that (I saw another comment here that placed it in the '72-'73 seasons, which sounds about right, I'm just saying I'm pretty sure it was still in use through '75).

Here's what I haven't seen mentioned: While I don't have video clips either, I have a distinct memory that a graphic accompanying the jingle was a cartoon illustration of a generic player wearing a Red Sox uniform, and on his head he was wearing a pilgrim's hat, and in one hand he was holding a pot of Boston baked beans (probably holding a bat in the other hand). I'm not sure whether the affiliates might have varied some in the visuals used in the intro, or if they were uniform across the network. But I do distinctly remember that illustration as part of the intro.

 

Thanks for all that. Glad you found this! (I can't take credit for the relaxes, since it was my co-worker who had sent me that. I think it was Marilyn. Where are you, Marilyn???)
 

Early 70s before 75.
I was in little League.
Tommy Harper was featured in the video aspect of it running around the bases. I'll never forget it...got me hooked forever!
 

Nope..Tommy Harper was the base runner.
 

Cool, thanks for pinpointing the years.
 

I thought it was a commercial. I remember the song and tune, has been stuck in my head for days. I need to see/hear it!
 

From early 70's. Game intro when games were on WBZ channel 4.
 

This is not the video you are looking for, but it is good and won a 1976 Clio award.

https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/s7526w17n
 

Thanks! That is a good one. Reminds me of the book Thee Ballpark in that it shows some of the pre-game prep.
 

Oh wow, there he is! Thanks! (Wish I could show "Unknown," maybe they get the notifications of when comments pop up here....)