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

Founding

Founder Ed Sabol was a World War II veteran who worked selling topcoats after returning back to the United States. In his spare time, he often used a motion picture camera, received as a wedding gift, to record his son Steven?s high schoolfootball games. Inspired by his own work, Sabol founded a small film company named Blair Motion Pictures,after his daughter. Sabol won the bidding for the rights to film the 1962 NFL championship game for $3,000, double the bid for the 1961 championship game. The film of that game impressed NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who asked the owners of the NFL to agree to buy out Sabol's company. Although the owners rejected Rozelle's proposal in 1964, they agreed a year later and renamed Sabol's company "NFL Films." He received $12,000 in seed money from each of the league's 14 owners, and in return would shoot all NFL games and produce a highlight film for each team. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/60II/main595946.shtml http://www.fortune.com/fortune/smallbusiness/managing/articles/0,15114,361371,00.html

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World War II - United States - Motion picture - Camera - High school - Football - 1962 - 1961 - Pete Rozelle - 1964

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