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Published 7/27/2007 by Sportsattitude at The Power Alley -- A Blog of All Sports!
... and currently serving as a Senior Producer with NFL Films, recently offered his thoughts about what he missed that has gone away…and what he liked that has changed…within the ...
Bronx Banter: Very Serious
Published 6/8/2007 at Bronx Banter
... . Here is my response: Yo Jay, Dude, one of the main reasons why I loved football so much as an early teenager is because that was also the time I first really started getting into movies, and NFL Films had an enormous impact on me. The way they visually presented the game, the melding of movies and sport, defined the sport for me. It had a reverence for the sport and mocking sense of humor too. We didn't have to just read about Jim Brown or Gayle Sayers, we could see . But we can't see Sandy Koufax or Willie Mays in the same way because Major League Baseball has never had anything close to NFL Films. Part of this is understandable because baseball has such a long season with so many games. You'd go broke if you filmed all of it waiting for a great moment to go down. I understand why it hasn't happened, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't of have, to some extent. The other part is that baseball has simply never been blessed with a crea ...
