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September 21, 2012 07:10 AM
The future of NFL Films looks bleak
With Steve Sabol's untimely death, there's no one to protect what he built from the cheapskates at NFL Network
Steve Sabol died on Tuesday from brain cancer at age 69. The president of, and artistic sensibility behind, NFL Films since the late 1960s, Sabol essentially created the myth and glamour of the modern National Football League, through the use of cinematography, music, wireless microphones, humor, poetry, and an innate belief that every football game was 60 minutes of savage...
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