nfl films

In 1962 NFL Films was created by Ed Sabol, a seasoned coat salesman and former vaudeville singer. It all started when Sabol paid $3,000 for the rights to film the 1962 NFL championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants.

Sabol was soon editing his game footage into feature-length productions and showing them at the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs. The stylistic hallmarks of NFL Films quickly emerged: microphone wearing coaches and players, slow-motion photography, blooper segments, and melodramatic narration like "the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field."

NFL Films has sent at least two camera operators to every regular and postseason game for the last forty five years. After watching a documentary with footage from almost five decades of NFL Films' output, you start to think that the Sabols are the reason football is the most-watched sport in America. "Before we started, the NFL had a tradition like baseball has a tradition," Steve Sabol says. "What we did was give football a mythology."

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