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Steve Sabol
American
Director
Born:
Oct 2
,
1942
Died:
Sep 18
,
2012
Football
Game
Me
Music
People
You
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Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
Steve Sabol
Inspirational
Music
Game
Theatre
Big
Field
Strategy
Our
Battleground
Clarify
Footage
Football
Part
Football Field
Like
Look
Piece
Looks
Glorify
Narration
Ballet
Chess
End
Big Movie
Screen
Movie
In The End
Create
Amplify
Playground
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
Steve Sabol
Heart
November
Pumping
Magic
Remains
Football
He
Name
Still
Lingers
Very
Pro
Snow
Pro Football
Mud
Certain
Hard
Speaks
Many
Now
Right
We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
Steve Sabol
Art
Game
Nurture
See
Only
Develop
Mythology
Catch
Sport
Traditions
America
Frozen
Us
Much
Team
Helped
I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
Steve Sabol
Remember
Citizen
Gun
First
Starts
Our
Citizen Kane
Football
Remember When
Call
Making
Line
Were
Pro
Pro Football
Ends
Which
Kane
Whistle
The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
Steve Sabol
Language
Signs
New
Importance
Artist
Bringing
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
Steve Sabol
Me
Struggle
Kid
Football
Looked
Terms
Score
Very
Personal
Interested
Even
I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
Steve Sabol
Made
College
Ease
Harvard
Tour
Blew
Boards
Europe
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
Steve Sabol
One Thing
Being
Noticed
Stand
Thing
The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol
War
World
Endeavor
Other
More
Only
Football
Pass
Than
Pro
Pro Football
Going
Human
Which
Film
World War
World War II
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?
Steve Sabol
Time
Woman
Thought
Face
Single
Same Thing
Though
Would
See
Three-Dimensional
Through
Picasso
Football
He
Almost
Look
Well
Always
How
Been
Same
Flat
Canvas
Perspectives
Separate
Fascinated
Moments
Multiple
Even
Why
Play
Thing
Image
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol
Mind
Job
Picture
Sold
Hat
Hated
Brothers
Only
Marx
Ritz
Had
He
Failed
Like
Make
Him
Always
Were
His
Wanted
Movies
Working
Dad
Straw
Career
Below
When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?
Steve Sabol
Game
Rights
Money
Father
Year
Before
Relatively
Spend
Willing
Worthless
Seemed
Guy
Like
Bid
Huge
Huge Amount
So Much Money
Double
Much
Who
Amount
Championship
I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol
Always
Fascinated
Neat
Nicknames
I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.
Steve Sabol
Sunday
Take
Ticket
Because
Go
Notes
Much
Used
Games
Watch
How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
Steve Sabol
Music
You
Films
Everything
About
Throat
How
Hear
Deep
All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.
Steve Sabol
You
Technology
Business
People
Father
Films
Changed
Approach
Our
Way
Out
Touch
Reach
Does
Still
Yes
Same
Process
Now
Button
Started
Millions
Millions Of People
NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.
Steve Sabol
Creative
People
Vision
Films
Back
Had
Mythology
Like
Read
Go
Years
Continuous
Timeless
Greek
Greek Mythology
Just
Stories
Capture
Things
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.
Steve Sabol
Me
You
Game
Struggle
Reality
Warrior
Physical
Mythic
Football
Mythology
Almost
Combat
Since
Narrative
Grade
Being
Loved
Against
Uniform
Turned
Team
Grounded
Even
Elements
Fourth
You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol
Life
Hope
You
Old
Tell
Super
Super Bowl
Crosby
Morocco
Road
Buddy
Name
Like
Know
Bowl
How
Came
Go
Up
Done
Movies
Bob
Bob Hope
Homage
Whole
Zanzibar
Bing
Bing Crosby
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