Steve Sabol

via HERE:

I've seen NFL Films dismissed as PR for the NFL economic monster. OK, it serves that role, but I also see NFL Films as football's epic poet, its major productions as the closest thing the sport has to an Iliad or Odyssey. A PR man couldn't produce those films; they required an artist who loved the sport, surrounding himself with talented and creative people who loved it just as much.

Interesting, his dad is still alive. 96 years old.