NFL Films' Steve Sabol, 69, dies of brain cancer

gmtaxi27 said:

RIP Steve. I am bummed by this news.

He was pioneer that revolutionized the NFL with NFL films.

There isn't a NFL fan who doesn't love NFL films.

I remember as a kid looking forward to Saturday afternoons to watch NFL films. This was during a time when the only NFL you would see is the Sunday games, and Monday Night Football. Nothing else. No Sunday night football, no ESPN, no NFL Channel. NFL Films was the only glimse I had outside of the Sunday and Monday night football.

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NFL Films president Steve Sabol died Tuesday morning after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. He was 69.

Sabol was one of the driving forces behind NFL Films -- which has allowed fans to see a different side of football for the past 50 years. His father, Ed Sabol, recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, started the company and convinced the league to let him film the 1962 NFL title game. Eventually, Sabol, with help from Steve, started NFL Films, and the league was never the same.

Everything you see on Inside the NFL? NFL Films. Much of what you see on the NFL Network and NFL.com? NFL Films. The wonderful documentaries on football? NFL Films.

Steve started with the company as a cinematographer in 1964, and from there, he began building the company of which he'd eventually become president.

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