The Sabols showed us stuff we never dreamed we’d ever see; and the NFL has always been more interesting ever after. That super slow-mo footage had to have taken miles of film over the years. I’ll bet they welcomed the advent of digital.
When they brought in Mel Blanc to do cartoon voices as occasional comedic punctuation, well, that was the piece de la resistance.
The sports-loving world feels a void today.
My all-time favorite NFL Films Feature
Joe and the Magic Bean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sedsNIB2Bjo
Don’t forget Jonathon Winters. He was in a few of the early ones, he and “Maude”.