Steve Sabol

SHARK · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:32 pm

If you watch all those NFL Films Productions on ESPN & NFL Network, you might know the name Steve Sabol. SHARK has learned that Steve, longtime President of Mt. Laurel, NJ-based NFL Films, passed away this afternoon at age 69 due to brain cancer, just weeks away from his 70th birthday. The story can be found here:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000 ... line_stack

denisdman · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:46 pm

SHARK, I wish you were assimilated into the Borg collective (Star Trek) so that SHARK would know all as soon as it happens.

Brian's Mojito · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:17 pm

His dad might have created the company, but Steve Sabol was the lifeblood of NFL Films.
His perspective was crucial to the emergence of the medium. He filmed games, worked in the studio with John Facenda and then emerged as the face of the product in the 80s and forward.
I understand why his father is in the Hall of Fame, but NFL Films is nothing near to what it is now without Steve Sabol's leadership.

SHARK · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:22 pm

I could watch those NFL Films productions for hours at a time, regardless if they're on ESPN or on NFL Network.

jimmypasta · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:25 pm

SHARK wrote:

I could watch those NFL Films productions for hours at a time, regardless if they're on ESPN or on NFL Network.

You and me both.

I just posted this a little while ago:

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=73020

Eaglo Jeff · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:16 pm

SHARK wrote:

I could watch those NFL Films productions for hours at a time, regardless if they're on ESPN or on NFL Network.

Me too. I have hundreds of various NFL Films shows I recorded through the years.

I hope that Showtime and the crew on Inside the NFL eulogizes him in their show tomorrow and that they talk about how important he is to football in general. Same goes for all the studio shows this weekend. R.I.P., Steve.

jimmypasta · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:06 pm

If the NFL wanted to have a moment of silence for him,I think that would be fine. I heard somewhere,The NFL Films product was so good other sports hired them out for their events.

sjboyd0137 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:08 pm

Just had the pleasure of explaining the significance of Ed and Steve Sabol to the fiancee when we were in Indy on Sunday.

Best marketing vehicle ever.

RIP

beni hanna · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:19 pm

She got it? That's a keeper.

sjboyd0137 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:22 pm

beni hanna wrote:

She got it? That's a keeper.

She likes football. Just didn't know about NFL films. She was a keeper from the moment she said she liked the game.

cpguy · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:41 pm

Very sad. Tough way to go too.

RIP.

newper · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:47 pm

I've got a 15 DVD collection of Superbowls I - XXX -- each one has about a half hour recapping the regular season and then a half hour on the Superbowl. All from NFL Films... it is really awesome stuff. Each one also probably has 20-30 minutes of extras where they do deep dives -- the Kezar Stadium in SF mini-documentary was really awesome. It is nice to have the history of the league preserved in the detail that they have.

I've got a close relative with brain cancer -- it's not a fun thing. Most tumors are benign and you can cut them out, but when they aren't, you have some issues... with many of the other cancers you have some options for cutting out the organ entirely, but you can't really do that with the brain. Hard to live without one! It sounds like he truly enjoyed his life and I guess at the end, that's what you're hoping for.

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