The Autumn Wind is what we officially have now.  It’s football season.

Which reminds me.

Steve and Ed Sabol, recipients of an astounding 87 Emmy awards.  Does Steve, at this age, remind anyone besides me of Mark Wahlberg?

Persons of a certain age, myself mostly included, remember the great celluloid created by NFL Films, the brainchild of Ed Sabol and later helmed by his son, Steve Sabol.

Ed recently passed away in February of 2015 at age 98, and his son Steve in 2012 of brain cancer, at age 69.

But most closely associated with NFL Films was “The Voice of God,” that of John Facenda, who passed away in 1984 at the age of 71.

Facenda was associated as narrator of NFL Films as Don LaFontaine was to movie trailers — both voiceover men of extreme talent.

Here, as a memory of days gone by, is The Autumn Wind, written by Steve Sabol in tribute to the football season — and picked up and embraced by the Oakland Raiders as their unofficial team anthem, beloved by Al Davis.  This tribute was produced in 1974.

There will never be another John Facenda or the ground-breaking creativity of NFL Films.

BZ

P.S.

For more memories, let’s try The Power and the Glory by NFL Films and narrated by John Facenda.  Sure to bring back a flood of them.