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'It Starts With A Whistle And Ends With A Gun.' And That Started It All
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Dead: Ed Sabol, founder of NFL Films, at age 98. This is important in that without Ed Sabol and his late son Steve, the NFL may not have caught on to become the biggest sport in America. Think about it -- it was those highlight films, the music, the field mics, John Facenda intoning "the frozen tundra"... that was the romanticization of the NFL, and while there were other sports doing highlight films (notably Lew Fonseca's World Series highlight films, the NFL's in the '60s and '70s defined how people perceived the sport. (ESPN)
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