Five quick midweek military sports links, starting with an appreciation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCliUYT6PQc[/youtube] 1. NFL Films and sprint football. Steve Sabol, president of NFL Films, son of its founder and one of the reasons so many people watch professional football on Sundays, died yesterday at 69 after a long fight with brain cancer. Read more about him from our friends at USA Today here. The video above, a 2004 NFL Films short on sprint football, features an Army-Navy showdown and showcases the NFL Films style football fans have come to love — up-close action, a soaring soundtrack, eyeball-gripping interviews, seamless edits, all…
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Cue the melodramatic music and get ready for some awesome slow-motion shots: NFL Films is at Fort Campbell this week to film a piece about the post’s high school football team. Earlier this year, Sports Illustrated wrote a powerful story about the Fort Campbell Falcons, who’ve won three consecutive Tennessee 2A championships. The Falcons, who went undefeated in 2009, are composed of kids whose parents are soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division or the Nightstalkers. Since it’s not uncommon for players on the team to have a parent deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, the Falcons are far more compelling than…
