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Steve Sabol Bio

As president of the most honored filmmaker in sports, Steve Sabol continues to be the artistic vision behind the studio that revolutionized the way America watches football.

In 2003, Sabol and his father, Ed, were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for “revolutionizing the way America watches football and setting the standard in sports filmmaking.” The Emmy was presented by Tim Russert, the host of “Meet the Press.”

While NFL Films has won 91 Emmys, Sabol himself has received 30 of those Emmys for writing, cinematography, editing, directing, and producing. No one in all of television has earned as many Emmys in as many different categories. Sabol also hosts the studio’s Emmy award-winning series NFL Films Presents.

Building on the entrepreneurial spirit of his father and founder of NFL FILMS, Sabol was named the 2002 Sports Executive of the Year by Sporting News magazine.

Sabol also received the prestigious Pete Rozelle Award, which is presented each year to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the National Football League and to professional football. He joins a select group of honorees including: Vince Lombardi, Dan Rooney, Lamar Hunt, Tom Landry and Don Shula.

Later this season, Steve Sabol will attend his 40th Super Bowl. He is one of 12 people in the world to have attended every Super Bowl.

Steve began his career in 1964 as a cinematographer working for his father and founder of NFL Films, Ed Sabol. As an All-Rocky Mountain Conference running back at Colorado College majoring in Art History, as well as an avid movie fan, Steve was, as his father put it, "uniquely qualified to make football movies."

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