Mediagazer: The future of NFL Films looks bleak (Robert Weintraub/CJR)

6:00 AM ET, September 24, 2012

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Robert Weintraub / CJR:

The future of NFL Films looks bleak — With Steve Sabol's untimely death, there's no one to protect what he built from the cheapskates at NFL Network — Steve Sabol died on Tuesday from brain cancer at age 69. The president of, and artistic sensibility behind, NFL Films since the late 1960s …

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