Posted on 09/18/2012 11:04:17 AM PDT by mc5cents
Growing up in Philly, I can still hear Facenda's voice on the news broadcast...
I think you are right about that.
Harry Kalas, followed Facenda as NFL Films primary voice
I think all of the narrators, including Facenda and Kalas, were from Philly.
He will be missed may he rest in peace. He set the standard for NFL films.
Considering there is no tundra anywhere in the state of Wisconsin, I'd say Facenda did a marvelous job.
Facenda never said that, it was derived from dumbass Berman, doing it in a Facenda tone of voice.
Over 100 Emmy awards. What a career!
RIP Mr. Sabol. Heck of a run Sir! You will be missed!
Facenda may have never actually said it, but it still is associated with Facenda’s style. And by the way, Chris Berman is not a dumass.
The visionaries that built this mighty league are almost all gone now.
But he didn’t build that.
Obama did.
/Feeling the Mr. Crankypants Junior today
Seriously Mr. Sabol, rest in peace, and I pray you were fortunate enough to hear “Well done, my good and faithful servant”.
Those were great films. And in many ways the music he chose became the soundtrack for our lives.
Very sad news. RIP.
Steve’s father Ed is still alive. He just turned 96.
Not a Raiders fan, but my favorite from NFL films was “The Autumn Wind”, a poem actually written by Sabol (RIP), and fittingly narrated by the fabulous Facenda:
The Autumn wind is a pirate
Blustering in from sea
With a rollicking song he sweeps along
Swaggering boisterously.
His face is weatherbeaten
He wears a hooded sash
With a silver hat about his head
And a bristling black mustache
He growls as he storms the country
A villain big and bold
And the trees all shake and quiver and quake
As he robs them of their gold.
The Autumn wind is a Raider
Pillaging just for fun
He’ll knock you ‘round and upside down
And laugh when he’s conquered and won.
The entire style we know as NFL films (and I think the narration was Sabol.
The whole slo-mo choreographed to music (with the classic symbol hit to correspond to hits on the field) was his idea.
A brilliant visionary who helped make the NFL what it is today.
RIP — gone too young.
I used to watch Monday Night Football only to see the summaries of the games that he did (back in the Seventies)
Thank you, Mr. Sabol. May you forever recover that giant key fumble in the sky...:)
Great stuff.
My absolute all time favorite was “The Lineman”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yprqSr1-v3o&playnext=1&list=PL28B5A855C8F3386B&feature=results_main
That epitomized football for me.
Now when most people hear that, they think of “Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy”.
I don’t know the name of this one, but it was another of my favorites...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyIHELHwq6I&feature=related
Oh, Good God.
I had no idea what that was, and had to Google it.
I haven’t watched any real television for going on 15 years now (outside of NFL) so I had no idea.
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