A towering figure in sports television passed away Tuesday.
Steve Sabol, whose fifty-year NFL broadcasting career included more than a quarter-century as president of NFL Films, died on Tuesday at age 69.
The news came more than a year after Sabol was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Sabol began his association with NFL Films from the very beginning, working the 1962 Packers/Giants NFL Championship Game as a cameraman. He became president in 1985, and as the Schenectady Daily Gazette noted, hosted several NFL Films specials throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
(Tuesday’s news from NFL.com, with additional information from the Schenectady Daily Gazette)
