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NFL Films

"The game of football is what it is today, because of NFL Films." - Andrea Kremer
Bryan Cranston
Rich Eisen
Trey Wingo
Ron Jaworski
by Bryan Cranston Rich Eisen Trey Wingo Ron Jaworski

Since its founding in 1962, NFL Films has created documentary movies and TV programs that have transformed how people watch and experience football. Productions have included theatrical, popular, and scored music over highlights, and for decades included the authoritative and dramatic narration from the "Voice of God," John Facenda. They’ve also featured slow motion replays, close-ups that follow the flight of a spiraling football, and audio capturing the game’s raw sounds, such as grunts and the cracking of pads and helmets. The effect is like that of a Hollywood movie and in many cases, these NFL Films productions elevated football to an art form. NFL Films was first launched as Blair Motion Pictures by Ed Sabol, who created a highlight film of the 1962 NFL Championship Game. By 1965, NFL Films was attaching microphones to players and coaches during live action, with one shining example in Super Bowl IV when NFL Films mic'd Chiefs head coach Hank Stram. The company has passionately preserved the history of the NFL, while winning over 100 Emmy Awards. In 2002, NFL Films opened a 200,000 square foot production space where it houses its archives in a massive film library, and produces content for the NFL Network and other media outlets.

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Bryan Cranston
Bryan
Cranston
Bryan Cranston is an actor who won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Walter White in “Breaking Bad.” He has also won a Tony Award for his role as President Lyndon Johnson in the Broadway play, “All the Way.” Before all that, he appeared in “Malcolm in the Middle” and “Seinfeld,” in which he played a dentist, Tim Whatley. A Hollywood native, Cranston rooted for the Los Angeles Rams in his youth, and has fondly recalled watching their “Fearsome Foursome” defensive line of the 1960s and 70s. Cranston has said that when the Rams moved to St. Louis in 1994, it was like “being dumped for another city.” When they returned in 2016, Cranston was “a little standoffish at first,” he recently said, but that eventually, “they won me back.”
Profession:
actor
Preferred Team:
Los Angeles Rams
Rich Eisen
Rich
Eisen
Rich Eisen is a broadcaster who is a studio host for the NFL Network and for The Rich Eisen Show. He previously worked for ESPN as a reporter and anchor, and hosted “Beg, Borrow, and Deal,” a reality show. A Brooklyn native who grew up in Staten Island, Eisen is a longtime Jets fan. Every year, at the NFL Scouting Combine, Eisen runs the 40-yard dash in a business suit, which he calls “my uniform.”
Profession:
reporter
Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, NY
Preferred Team:
New York Jets
Trey Wingo
Trey
Wingo
Trey Wingo is an ESPN host for the shows “NFL Live,” “NFL Primetime,” “Sportscenter,” and “Golic and Wingo.” Wingo, whose voice is used in multiple NFL video games, grew up rooting for the Cowboys. His entire family is from Texas; during the first game he ever watched on TV, a Monday night came between St. Louis and Dallas many years ago, he asked his father about the blue star that graces the Cowboys’ helmet – and consequently became a fan.
Profession:
reporter
Place of Birth:
Greenwich, CT
Preferred Team:
Dallas Cowboys
Ron Jaworski
Ron
Jaworski
Ron Jaworski was a longtime starting NFL quarterback in the 1970s and 80s, primarily with the Eagles. The NFC Player of the Year in 1980 and a member of the Eagles Hall of Fame, Jaworski, nicknamed “Jaws,” later became a color commentator for Monday Night Football and an NFL analyst for ESPN. Jaworski was born and raised in the Buffalo area as a Bills fan. As a senior at Youngstown State in Ohio, he and some teammates drove to Buffalo and scalped tickets to a Bills – Jets game. He remembers watching Joe Namath throw – Jaworski had never seen a superstar player that close before – and the incident gave Jaworski confidence that he could throw like that too.
Profession:
reporter
Place of Birth:
Lackawanna, NY