Editing Super Bowl XXI (section)

==Broadcasting==
[[File:Super Bowl XXI at the Rose Bowl.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of the game at the Rose Bowl]]
The game was broadcast in the United States by [[NFL on CBS|CBS]]. It featured the broadcast team of [[play-by-play|play-by-play announcer]] [[Pat Summerall]] and [[color commentator]] [[John Madden]]. [[Brent Musburger]] of ''[[The NFL Today]]'' anchored ''[[The NFL Today|The Super Bowl Today]]'' pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. Helping Musburger were reporters [[Irv Cross]] and [[Will McDonough]] and analysts [[Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder]], [[Terry Bradshaw]], [[Joe Theismann]], [[CBS News]] reporter [[Charles Osgood]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=Sold out Super Bowl for CBS|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-01-19.pdf|work=Broadcasting Magazine|access-date=April 5, 2017|page=212|date=January 19, 1987}}</ref> and [[Dan Dierdorf]] (in his final CBS assignment before moving on to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' for the [[1987 NFL season|following season]]; Dierdorf would return to CBS for the [[1999 NFL season|1999 season]]). This was the first NFL game to be broadcast in [[Dolby Surround]] sound and in stereo.<ref>{{cite web|title=Small-format video technology pictured for 1987|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-01-05.pdf|work=Broadcasting Magazine|access-date=April 5, 2017|pages=178–180|date=January 5, 1987}}</ref> 

Nationally on radio, the game was carried over the [[NFL on NBC Radio|NBC Radio Network]]. [[Don Criqui]] served as play-by-play with [[Bob Trumpy]] his color commentator. This was the last Super Bowl called by Criqui, as NBC Radio lost NFL rights following the season and he returned to his secondary play-by-play role on NBC television. Trumpy would call two more Super Bowls for NBC television ([[Super Bowl XXVII]] and [[Super Bowl XXVIII]]) as part of the network's No. 1 broadcast team. In the teams' local markets, the game was carried on [[WBBR|WNEW-AM]] in New York City with [[Jim Gordon (sportscaster)|Jim Gordon]] and [[Dick Lynch]] and [[KOA-AM]] in [[Denver]], Colorado, with Bob Martin and Larry Zimmer.

The game was also broadcast in Canada on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and in the United Kingdom on [[Channel 4]]. The latter had commentary by [[Frank Gifford]], [[John Smith (placekicker)|John Smith]] and [[Don Shula]]. This was also the first Super Bowl to be telecast on commercial television in Asia, as the [[GMA Network]] in the [[Philippines]] aired its first Super Bowl. This game also marked the first Super Bowl to be broadcast live in Rome.<ref name="auto"/>

Super Bowl XXI is featured in ''NFL's Greatest Games'' under the title ''Land of the Giants'' and was narrated by [[John Doremus]].

===Music===

The game is notable for the two intended debuts of musical themes that have become syonymous with the network, for differing reasons. CBS opened the game with the theme music, composed by Lloyd Landesman,<ref>{{cite news |last=Wolken|first=Dan|date=December 9, 2013|title=Lloyd Landesman and the sound that makes the SEC on CBS|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2013/12/06/championship-cbs-college-football-jingle-lloyd-landesman/3875055/|work=USA Today|location= |access-date=}}</ref> that would later be used for their [[College Football on CBS|college football coverage]].

CBS also originally planned to debut the song "[[One Shining Moment]]" during a postgame montage at the end of its coverage. Songwriter David Barrett had originally wrote "One Shining Moment" for basketball, being inspired after watching [[Larry Bird]] play.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Man Behind One Shining Moment|date=April 6, 2013 |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/video/man-behind-one-shining-moment-184500316.html|publisher=Yahoo! Sports|access-date=April 9, 2013}}</ref> For the Super Bowl XXI montage, the lyrics were modified to make football references instead of basketball ones, such as changing "The ball is ''tipped''" to "The ball is ''kicked''". However, both the game and the postgame interviews ran past the expected airtime, and thus the montage was canceled and CBS instead went straight to its [[List of Super Bowl lead-out programs|Super Bowl lead-out program]], ''[[Hard Copy (1987 TV series)|Hard Copy]]''. CBS then asked Barrett for permission to use the song after the [[1987 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game]] on March 30, in which [[1986–87 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|Indiana]] beat [[1986–87 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team|Syracuse]]. "One Shining Moment" was used to close CBS's coverage of the tournament. The positive public response led to it becoming an annual feature on the [[NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship]] coverage ever since.