RIP Steve Sabol

[BigBoi23]

So sad. Here's one of my all-time favorite NFL Films vignettes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEELeovGCa8

[RJTurneR]

It really is hard to imagine NFL Films without both Steve and his father Ed. I just hope it never loses the vision which both men put forward, both worked so hard to achieve.

In a way.. NFL Films also loses a little bit of its magic just because of the passing of Steve.

Throw your rivalries and match ups out the window. The next week should be spent honoring the Sabol name.

[oneamongthefence]

Wow... He's the voice of NFL films. RIP

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[jarod43]

Sad to see him go, I loved Nfl films too. R.i.p steve sabol.

[spacefunk]

Very sad day. He started my love of the history of the NFL by doing the intros on the old "This Is The NFL" 25 or so years ago. He practically did everything at NFL Films from writing the scripts John Facenda so eloquently read to giving the ideas to what he wanted Sam Spence to use for those iconic songs. He just seemed like a regular guy that loves football. Like me. R.I.P.

[RJTurneR]

Quote:

He just seemed like a regular guy that loves football. Like me. R.I.P.

I think that's one of the reasons why we're all going to miss him so much. He wasn't one of these owners or someone who just did it for money, he did it because he loved football. And football loved him.

He was just one of us, a fan of the game. Just watching NFL Network, seeing Rich Eisen almost in tears.. I'm finding it hard myself to hold back.

[ochoco]

You brought so much of the game to me that I would not have seen otherwise. You will be missed.

R.I.P.

[SPTO]

Truly a giant in his field while NFL Films has been known to warp history a bit there`s still a lot of greatness attached to it. The narrative and the sense of something epic due ot the use of film rather than video tape made it special and you couldn't do any better than some of the voices that accompanied it with John Facenda and Harry Kalas. Unfortunately it seems the NFLN has usurped what NFL Films was all about and the endless pontification has gotten old fast with the "top 100 of (insert year)" though a lot of people seem to like it.

Even though NFL Films still does fantastic stuff on the sidelines with the open mics and the unfiltered access it just feels soulless today for some reason. At least Sabol gave us the monumental America`s Game series as his last great achievement. It`s a shame he never got his wish to do a full show of all the SB losers though. I think that would've been fascinating as the Missing Rings shows were interesting in their own way.

R.I..P.