NJ Senate Approves Steve Sabol Day
The late Sabol, a Moorestown resident, co-founded NFL Films and is credited for changing how fans watch and understand football.
New Jersey is one step closer to memorializing a Moorestown man who changed how America watches football. The state Senate approved a resolution naming Oct. 2 as Steve Sabol Day. Sabol is the late president and co-founder of NFL Films, based in Mount Laurel. Sabol died in September 2012 after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. Sabol’s NFL Films captured football action on and off the field as no other. Sabol helped humanize football, and its players, to the nation. While his footage used techniques—slow motion, extreme close-ups—that viewers previously didn’t see, Sabol’s storytelling was at the heart of his clips. For more on Sabol's life and work, read Remembering Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films The New Jersey Senate on Monday …
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Stan Kovalesy
10:47 am on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
For some reason, I always remembered a Sports Illustrated article about Steve Sabol's clever self-promotion of himself as, "Sudden Death Sabol" while playing for Colorado College. Thanks to SI for making archives available: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1077923/1/index.htm more ›