NFL Films President Steve Sabol hospitalised in Kansas City after seizure
Steve Sabol, president of the National Football League (NFL) Films, suffered a seizure on Saturday night and is now in a Kansas City area hospital in stable condition.
The 68-year-old filmmaker was attending the 101 Awards in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Committee of 101 Awards started handing out awards in various categories back in 1969. These include Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year Awards, Coach of
the Year Awards and the Lamar Hunt Award. Sabol was in Kansas City to accept the Lamar Hunt Award for professional football for NFL Films when he suffered a seizure.
Sabol was rushed to an area hospital and was subject to a number of tests over the weekend. He was awake and alert as of Monday.
Steve’s father, Ed Sabol, is the founder of NFL Films which Steve now heads. Ed Sabol was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in February in the Class of 2011 along with defensive end Richard Dent, running back Marshall Faulk, linebacker
Chris Hanburger, guard and kicker Les Richter, cornerback and kick returner Deion Sanders and tight end Shannon Sharpe. Ed Sabol has won 91 Emmy Awards on behalf of NFL Films and also won a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2003.
Steve Sabol founded NFL Films with his father. He is currently the president of the company and worked as a cameraman with his father after he graduated from Colorado College. Both father and son worked under acclaimed sports filmmaker Dan Endy. NFL Films
started as Blair Motion Pictures with their first major job being to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants in New York’s Yankee Stadium. In 1964, the company changed its name to NFL Films after becoming the sole
film producer for the NFL.
Steve once said, “The only other human endeavour more thoroughly captured on 16-mm film than the National Football League is World War II.”
Steve later became an on-air personality after ESPN signed NFL Films as a production company. A documentary was made about him, titled
Tight on the Spiral, as well as having won several Emmy Awards himself and on the behalf of his company. He also helped found the NFL Network, which broadcasts both NFL and Canadian Football League games.
He also made a voice appearance in the Madden NFL 2006 and Madden NFL 2007 video games. In addition, his likeness and voice appeared in the NFL Head Coach video game. He is also the author of “The Autumn Wind,” a sports-themed poem and has been dubbed as
“The Battle Hymn of the Raider Nation” since it is synonymous with the Oakland Raiders football team and has become their unofficial team anthem.
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