Film and Video and It’s Place in Pro Sports

“They Call it Pro Football” was the first feature-length film using what is now called “NFL Films-style”. It would launch one of the most recognized film studios in the world –NFL Films. Notice I didn’t say “sports film studios”, that is because they have gone beyond sports with their films with ground-breaking imagery and cinematography. The Sabol’s, Ed and Steve, have created a dynasty in sports like no other.

They turned football into a movie that rivaled those on the big screen, complete with protagonist and antagonists, in-depth plot lines, larger than life characters, and some of the best “on-location” scenes we have ever seen. And it was all real. There were no fancy special effects, no CGI, no stunt doubles. There was no director yelling “Cut” when a scene didn’t go as planned, the “actors” were always going off-script, and even if you knew how the movie would end you were always surprised by how they got theree.

The NFL would have probably still have become the behemoth money-maker that it is today with or without NFL Films, but without them, we may not have some of the imagery and nostalgia that you get when watching an NFL Films piece.

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