Thank you, Kaz Maeda, for posting my very first film featurette that I edited for NFL Films in 1969, at our 13th & Vine St. studios in Philadelphia. I haven't seen this in decades. I'd been pulling footage for stock film, commercials, highlights, etc. since I was hired after graduating Indiana University's Radio, TV & Film Department (now called Media Communications) in 1968, and finally got my own film to create. They gave me scrap film with which to make it (16mm master & release prints). So when a friend of Big Ed (Sabol)'s on the Academy saw it, she called him to put it up for a Live Action Short. No one ever told me I was almost nominated for an Oscar for this, but our VP of Marketing Inez Aimee, in the NFL New York office, told me about it when we were on the yacht of a friend of Big Ed's at the Miami 1970 Super Bowl. After all, I was only a girl... their first female film editor! I put shots of my IU buddies Doug Crusan (Dolphins OT #71) & Terry Cole (#34 Colt leading out of the tunnel) in this! We all went to the NFL after the '68 Rose Bowl semester!
@lavonnebeblerjohnson4855 this was great work, not seen anymore in mainstream video. This hit when I first watched and I wish they still had more meaningful content like this. You did amazing work and I hope the nfl sits down with you or honors you and the others who worked on projects with the Sabols in some way
John Facenda was an excellent broadcaster and gentleman. I was a young kid growing up in Philadelphia and our home always tuned into Mr. Facenda for the news. At the end of the each broadcast he would sign off saying “ have a good night and a better day tomorrow”.
"and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breath a word about your loss". I was 50, fired, and broke. I did what I did when I was 23, I cowboy-ed it to a new town, new job and started over. Luck finally struck me, I went on the roll of my life and now 4 years later am living my dream.
My favorite poem, written by my favorite poet, read by one of if not the most epic narrators of all time. How did I not know this existed until just now?
"Pro football is a game, not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death. But say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs and a season is at stake." - John Facenda
Whenever I am feeling down, watching this video makes me feel better. John Facenda just brought Kipling's poem to another level and the cinematography by NFL Films was perfect
That guy could've made my trip to the grocery store sound cool "Mrs G unable to find hehr favorite braaaaand of maaagarine, had achieved a dignity in failure, she haaaaad nevaaaah achieved in success."
Yes that would have been brilliant. I haven't seen this film in about 50 years. I am 63. Someone gave me a generic plaque of IF in the late 70's without the last line which didn't make much sense except for the fact they didn't want to offend women.
Si puedes mantener la cabeza en su sitio cuando todos a tu alrededor la pierden y te culpan a ti. Si puedes seguir creyendo en ti mismo cuando todos dudan de ti, pero también toleras que tengan dudas. Si puedes esperar y no cansarte de la espera; o si, siendo engañado, no respondes con engaños, o si, siendo odiado, no incurres en el odio. Y aun así no te las das de bueno ni de sabio. Si puedes soñar sin que los sueños te dominen; Si puedes pensar y no hacer de tus pensamientos tu único objetivo; Si puedes encontrarte con el Triunfo y el Desastre, y tratar a esos dos impostores de la misma manera. Si puedes soportar oír la verdad que has dicho, tergiversada por villanos para engañar a los necios. O ver cómo se destruye todo aquello por lo que has dado la vida, y remangarte para reconstruirlo con herramientas desgastadas. Si puedes apilar todas tus ganancias y arriesgarlas a una sola jugada; y perder, y empezar de nuevo desde el principio y nunca decir ni una palabra sobre tu pérdida. Si puedes forzar tu corazón, y tus nervios y tendones, a cumplir con tus objetivos mucho después de que estén agotados, y así resistir cuando ya no te queda nada salvo la Voluntad, que les dice: "¡Resistid!". Si puedes hablar a las masas y conservar tu virtud. O caminar junto a reyes, sin menospreciar por ello a la gente común. Si ni amigos ni enemigos pueden herirte. Si todos pueden contar contigo, pero ninguno en exceso. Si puedes llenar el implacable minuto, con sesenta segundos de diligente labor Tuya es la Tierra y todo lo que hay en ella, y -lo que es más-: ¡serás un Hombre, hijo mío!
If- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And -which is more- you'll be a Man my son!
This has to be 1970 because Tom Brookshier mentioned that the Lions played the Saints the previous week. They played at Tiger Stadium in 1968, a 20-20 tie. But it can't be that because they showed a lot of clips from 1969. The Lions played the Saints in 1970. Tom Dempsey kicked his 63-yard FG. I've always wanted to see the highlights of that game on TWIPF but can't find it. Do you have the complete show?
