NFL Films production of "A Football Life" is back for a fourth season of NFL Network. I've said it before and I'll say it again and again and again. These programs are fantastic. Which is hardly a surprise as everything that NFL Films touches is magic.
The name for the series comes from a Steve Sabol quote:
"For a company that prides itself on telling good stories, this is one hell of a story. Dad makes the Hall of Fame. Son's going to be the presenter. Son gets a brain tumor. Now the story is, Is the son going to be there? Will the son make it? Who knows? I could be around until the Super Bowl in New York. But, I've had a lot of time to think...
So, they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But, I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect."
I miss Steve Sabol. He did sell his NFL Films a little short. They tell great stories.
Season 1 brought us these football lives:
Bill Belichick
Reggie White and Jerome Brown
Kurt Warner
Walter Payton
Ed Sabol
Mike Ditka
Tom Landry
Al Davis
Season 2:
Faces of Tim Tebow
Ray Lewis
Tom Coughlin
The 1995 Cleveland Browns
The Fearson Foursome
Steve McNair
Eddie DeBartolo
Chris Spielman
Jimmy Johnson
John Riggins
Barry Sanders
Marcus Allen
Immaculate Recpetion
Season 3:
LaDanian Tomlinson
Don Shula
Darrelle Revis
Derrick Thomas
Steve Sabol
Matt Millen
Michael Strahan
Pat Summerall
Warren Sapp
Randall Cunningham
Cris Carter
The Forward Pass
Steve Gleason
The Great Wall of Dallas
Houston '93
Marty Schottenheimer
Vince Lombardi
Tiki and Rhonde Barber
Bill Parcells
Jerry Smith
Jerry Rice
Each episode of Season 4 premieres on Fridays at 9pm EST. The episodes are then replayed several times.
So far this season we've been treated to these football lives:
Joe Greene
Brandon Marshall
Sean Taylor
Warren Moon
Eric Dickerson
This Friday is Doug Flutie's time.
In the coming weeks, we'll see these football lives:
Terrell Davis
Ricky Williams
Earl Campbell
Csonka, Kiick, and Morris
Lyle Alzado
Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers
Every show is a keeper.
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