NFL Films

NFL Films is a Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based company devoted to producing commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentaries on the National Football League. Founded as Blair Motion Pictures by Ed Sabol in 1962, and now

Controversy

Although NFL Films is trusted by nearly all the players and coaches of

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the NFL, some have said this is because that they almost never show

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those interviewed, or the league itself, in a poor light. Many

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criticize it for not showing the seedier side of pro football,

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including promiscuity, excessive violence, and heavy drug use. Sports Illustrated once called NFL Films "?perhaps the most effective

Related Topics:
Drug - Sports Illustrated

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propaganda organ in the history of corporate America."

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Steven Sabol counters these arguments by saying:

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::"That's not what we do. That's being done by others. Why should we join that group?...There's newspapers, and tabloids and television. They're doing that. So I don't contribute, and just follow along. The game is beautiful and I love it, and that's the way I want to portray it." http://www.fortune.com/fortune/smallbusiness/managing/articles/0,15114,361371,00.html

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