Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media

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Index ABC Sports, 131–33, 145–46 ABC’s Wide World of Sports, 131, 133–34, 146 aesthetic practices, NFL Films, 3–4, 5, 49, 59, 95, 158, 179. See also close-ups; graphics ; ground-level cameras; multi-camera; montage editing; narration; 16mm film; slow motion; sound, on-field; tight on the spiral; wireless microphones AFL-NFL World Championship. See Super Bowl Aimee, Inez, 137–38 Ameche, Alan, 42 American Armed Forces Motion Picture Service, 208n31, 210n56 American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 40, 63, 131, 134, 145, 147, 149, 154–55, 209n41, 210n50, 211nn10–11. See also ABC Sports; ABC’s Wide World of Sports; Monday Night Football American Film Institute (AFI), 105 American Football League (AFL), 48–49, 196n54 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions, 56–57, 69, 162, 197n65, 213n39 Anatomy of a Championship, 15 Anspaugh, David, 33 archives, 79–80, 87–88, 200n4. See also NFL Films archive Arledge, Roone, 30, 104, 131–33, 145–47, 182 art, 99–102, 104, 107, 112–13, 122–23, 125, 203n10; artworlds, 100, 106, 113, 114; and the Sabols, 11, 114–20 Atkinson, George, 62–63 Autumn Ritual, 27, 154, 211n8 Bahamas Bound, 7 Baltimore Colts, 42, 62, 64 Baltimore Ravens, 69 Bell, De Benneville “Bert,” 39–42 Big Blocks and King Size Hits of the NFL, 65–66 Big Game America, 23–24, 51–53, 136 biographies, 26, 42 Birth of the Bucs, 173 blackouts. See television Black Star Rising, 67–68 Black Sunday, 114 Blair Motion Pictures, 7–9, 11, 15–16, 121, 190nn17–18 bloopers. See follies bobblehead dolls. See merchandising Boggs, Hale, 48 234 Index Bornstein, Steve, 152, 161 Butkus, Dick, 22, 136 Carr, Joe F., 38 Casey, Bernie, 141, 208n37 “The Catch,” 3–4, 77–78, 89, 180. See also Clark, Dwight chalkboard programs, 27, 154, 165 The Championship Chase, 23, 108 Champions of the Gridiron (1938), 38 Champions of the Gridiron (1939), 84, 193n10 Chandler, Don, 62 Chicago Bears, 65 Childress, Brad, 74 cinephilia, 107, 120 Citizen Kane, 107–8 Clark, Dwight, 2–4. See also “The Catch” Cleveland Browns, 40 close-ups, 20, 21, 65, 76, 112, 129 college football, 9–11, 38, 48, 132–33, 197n62 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 45, 135, 143 compilation film, 85 corporate sponsorship, 65–66, 202n35 Cosell, Greg, 172 Cosell, Howard, 146–47, 148, 207n24, 210n54 Cronkite, Walter, 134–35 Crunch Course, 70, 75 Cunningham, Randall, 111 Curry, Bill, 56, 181 Dallas Cowboys, 3, 4, 64, 177 Dancing with the Stars, 97 Davidson, Ben, 140 Davis, Willie, 56 Dawn of a New Day, 74 Deadline to Glory, 15 Disney, Walt, 115, 116. See also Walt Disney Company Disney World, 144–45, 209n48 documentary, 61, 63–65 Dream Season, 75–76 Duchamp, Marcel, 109–10 Duel in the Sun, 112 Duluth Eskimoes, 38 Eastman Kodak, 25, 187 Ed Sabol: The King of Football Films, 7, 183–84 Eller, Carl, 140 Elway to Marino, 212n16 Enberg, Dick, 23 Endy, Dan, 9 epic histories, 26, 103, 175 Era of Excellence: The 1980s, 55, 59, 75 Ernst, Ernie, 20–21 ESPN, 30, 78, 151–52, 153–57, 161–62, 170, 209n43, 211nn11–12; ESPN Classic, 156, 157, 212n14; ESPN Films, 126, 157, 212n16. See also SportsCenter ESPN Sunday Night Football, 155, 211n11 Facenda, John, 23, 25, 49–50, 116, 143, 204n33, 215n6 fantasy football, 171 The First Fifty Years: A Celebration of the National Football League in its Fiftieth Season, 46 follies, 26–27, 75, 87, 109–12, 151 The Football Follies, 26, 109–10 A Football Life, 88 Foreman, Chuck, 65 Franza, Dave, 92 Friday Night Lights, 32 gambling, 38, 40, 45–46, 171, 194n21, 195n41 Game of the Week, 16, 26, 59, 72–73, 138–39, 156, 162, 164, 171, 197n59, 198n9 Garrison, Walt, 140 General Mills, 38, 193n9 George, Phyllis, 143 Gifford, Frank, 13–14, 146–47 Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, 129, 131 The Gillette Company, 129 Grange, Harold “Red,” 85 graphics, 27, 62, 106, 130 The Greatest Adventure: The Story of Man’s Voyage to the Moon, 176 “greatest game ever played,” 42. See also National Football League championship (1958) Greatest Moments in Dallas Cowboys History , 59 Greatest Moments in Super Bowl History, 60 Greatest Moments of the Super Bowl, 75 235 Index Greatest NFL Rivalries, 169 Green Bay Packers, 11–14, 38, 52, 56, 61–62 Greenburg, Ross, 66, 157–58 ground-level cameras, 3, 14, 20, 33, 129, 149 Gunsel, Austin, 40, 194n22...