Tag: Ed Sabol
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How the Super Bowl got its superpower | Vince Bzdek
The summer of 2015, just before the magical season when Peyton Manning took the Broncos back to the Super Bowl, my 13-year-old son and I decided to watch every single Super Bowl game in history. We started with the Broncos’ 1998 and 1999 victories under John Elway, because I felt it was my duty as…
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Former Colorado College running back, NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame
Steve Sabol was the subject of a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in November 1965. That issue, which featured Muhammad Ali on the cover of the weekly magazine, told the story of how Sabol, a Colorado College running back via Philadelphia marketed himself as “The Tot from Possum Trot,” a fictional town in Mississippi, “The…