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
art develop frozen game helped nurture sports traditions
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.
football player games
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,
team games america
That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
sunday games nfl
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.
movie football games
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.
cranky five last miserable principles seen stood
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.
bid double guy huge money nfl relatively rights seemed spend willing worthless year
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?
bowl care gone super
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.
human pass pro war
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.
adversity
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.
bowl corporate crowd event super
The Super Bowl is such a corporate event that even the crowd doesn't have the same intensity.
covering easiest miss people
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.
believed conditions famous karl quote
I've always believed in that famous quote from Karl Marx, something like; 'Men make history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.
angles cut except image looking multiple picasso shooting single taking time treatment
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.