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Location: SE
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We've lost a friend....Steve Sabol(RIP)
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09-18-2012, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Oh wow damn.
I really liked his presentation style and loved what him and his father did with NFL Films.
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09-18-2012, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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Whoah, big news. He and his father really had a huge impact on making the NFL what it is today.He'll be missed.
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09-18-2012, 12:40 PM
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09-18-2012, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere More Familiar
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What a loss. I wonder who takes up the reins at NFL Films now? Talk about huge shoes to fill.
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09-18-2012, 12:50 PM
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Location: Oakland, CA
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09-18-2012, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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This is where the phrase, "legendary" belongs. RIP
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09-18-2012, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Big oversight by the Hall voters not to put him in before he died. He and his father are easily in the top ten most influential people in the history of the game. They basically invented modern sports coverage and always kept innovating and incorporating new technology.
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09-18-2012, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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09-18-2012, 02:09 PM
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Location: Madison, WI
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09-18-2012, 02:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Madison, WI
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Here's an interesting clip.
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09-18-2012, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Last edited by Scoobz0202 : 09-18-2012 at 03:06 PM. |
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09-18-2012, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Yeah, didn't know he was battling brain cancer. NFL Films sold me into football when I was younger because they presented the game as if it were a story and I would spend some days even watching some of the classic games told by NFL Films' John Facenda.
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09-18-2012, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Same here. Facenda and the music combined with the plays being in slow motion were just fascinating to me and still are.
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09-18-2012, 04:48 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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This. Thanks for helping start a forty year affair with pro football. You're unique take on the game will be missed.
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09-18-2012, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Man I love the work of the Sabols and Fassenda and I am sorry for the personal loss to the Sabol family.
NFL films as a whole was kind Of a pop icon and I feel melancholy about the end of an era. I think it is interesting the emotional importance we put into popular culture. What is up with that? |
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09-18-2012, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I hadn't seen him in a few years & was shocked at how old he got. RIP.
(Is it just me, or in these recent "old" shots he looks a bit like Colon Powell?) |
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