Monday, May 13, 2013
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 …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
The NFL Films founder, a former Moorestown resident, died last fall.
Sens. Diane Allen and Dawn Marie Addiego (both R-Burlington) will introduce a resolution Feb. 4 to honor the late Steve Sabol, naming Oct. 2 as "Steve Sabol Day." Sabol, a former Moorestown resident, was the president and co-founder of Mount Laurel-based NFL Films. He died in September 2012 after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. Roger Goddell, the NFL commissioner, called the move "a great honor." “Steve Sabol was a creative genius who changed the way we look at football and sports,” Goodell said. “This is a great honor that I know Steve would proudly share with all of his colleagues at NFL Films headquarters in Mount Laurel.” Allen said Sabol's filmmaking documented the "intellect, emotion and humanity" of football. Addiego said …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
For 50 years, the Moorestonian helped transform football into the most popular game in America. Sabol died Tuesday after an 18-month battle with brain cancer.
Before you read any of these words, please, take a moment to watch one, or two, of the above videos. Let them take you away to an earlier, bygone day, if they can. To a time before Sundays were dominated by ads for light beer and Toyotathons; a time before the concepts of fantasy sports and football widows. A time when football was a fun way for high school and college kids to spend their Saturday mornings, and not the billion-dollar bulwark of the American sporting landscape. A time before those afternoon contests were elevated to the stuff of Viking legend. A time before your mind's eye could picture "the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field"—words never actually uttered by the immortal Jon Facenda—or before your ears beheld the couplets of …
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 ›