Last week NFL Network premiered NFL Film's most recent America's Game. As with everything created by NFL Films, it was tremendous. Despite profiling the Green Bay Packers and their fourth Super Bowl win and thirteenth NFL title. I can't wait for NFL Films to put the exclamation point on the Minnesota Vikings first Super Bowl victory. I will be one silly idiot.
NFL Films never ceases to amaze. The America's Game series is just beautiful. They wrap the stories of three players or coaches into one fantastic story of the team winning it all. They bring in a celebrity with a distinct voice to narrate. John Slattery of Mad Men narrated the Packers' season. Gene Hackman, Alec Baldwin, Jon Hamm, Brad Pitt and Donald Sutherland have done some of the previous episodes. The three members of the team chosen to personalize the story are interviewed in such a way that it feels they are speaking straight to the audience. It's just them, always individually, and the camera. The camera is us. Aaron Rodgers, Charles Woodson and Mike McCarthy were the three Packers chosen. The choices are often predictable, but they are always perfect. They all tell their own story as a summation of the whole story. We often get so wrapped up in only that which takes place on the field. We forget about all that it takes to become the best. It's nice to be able to sit back and see some of the small things that make up the players and coaches. The small things that make up a team. Every team has a story and NFL Films, as always, does an incredible job of telling that story. America's Game has become an integral part of a team's championship season. I can't wait for the Vikings turn.
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