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IN THE BEGINNING, there was just a father, a son, a projector, a reel of film and a puddle of cocktail sauce.
In 1962, a frustrated Philadelphia overcoat salesman by the name of Ed Sabol and his son Steve paid the NFL $3,000 to film the league's championship game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants. Held the premiere of the highlight film of the Packers' 16-7 victory at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan.
"Halfway through the screening, a waiter knocked the cord out of the wall and the projector went flying," Steve Sabol says. "We had all the top sports writers from that era there to watch it. Dick Young, Red Smith, Hugh Brown from the Bulletin. And there was our film, laying in this big pile of cocktail sauce....
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IN THE BEGINNING, there was just a father, a son, a projector, a reel of film and a puddle of cocktail sauce.
In 1962, a frustrated Philadelphia overcoat salesman by the name of Ed Sabol and his son Steve paid the NFL $3,000 to film the league's championship game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants. Held the premiere of the highlight film of the Packers' 16-7 victory at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan.
"Halfway through the screening, a waiter knocked the cord out of the wall and the projector went flying," Steve Sabol says. "We had all the top sports writers from that era there to watch it. Dick Young, Red Smith, Hugh Brown from the Bulletin. And there was our film, laying in this big pile of cocktail sauce....
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