Steve Sabol
Steve Sabol
Stephen Douglas "Steve" Sabolwas an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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I've always believed in that famous quote from Karl Marx, something like; 'Men make history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.
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Everything Lombardi stood for, everything that the Packers accomplished, all the principles that Lombardi has espoused for the last five years would be tarnished if they lost. He was as crabby and cranky and miserable as I'd ever seen him.
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The Super Bowl is such a corporate event that even the crowd doesn't have the same intensity.
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Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything.
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We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
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So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
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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.'
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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.
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How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
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There's no comparison. One of the tenets of football, its essence, is triumphing over adversity. That can be your opponent, your shortcomings or it can be the weather.
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The pressure is suffocating down there; there's no air to breathe. You make a mistake or come up just short in the Super Bowl, and it feels like the end of the world.
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No one used to care about halftime. But the Super Bowl has gone from a game, to an experience, to an event, to a holiday.
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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.