I Blew The College Boards,

To Me, Football Is Very Personal. Even As A Kid, I Looked At Football In Dramaturgical Terms. It Wasn't The Score That Interested Me, It Was The Struggle.

If You Can Show Something As Complicated As Two People Falling In Love With Just Music And Camera Angles, Well, Just Think About What You Can Do With Football.

Look At A Football Field. It Looks Like A Big Movie Screen. This Is Theatre. Football Combines The Strategy Of Chess. It's Part Ballet. It's Part Battleground, Part Playground. We Clarify, Amplify And Glorify The Game With Our Footage, The Narration And That Music, And In The End Create An Inspirational Piece Of Footage.

I Have Loved Football As An Almost Mythic Game Since I Was In The Fourth Grade. To Me, The Game Wasn't Even Grounded In Reality. The Uniform Turned You Into A Warrior. Being On A Team, The Mythology Of Physical Combat, The Struggle Against The Elements, The Narrative Of The Game.

There Have Been Nine Super Bowls In New Orleans, And Not All Of Them Have Brought The Best Of Luck To Nfl Films. We Got Robbed Twice There, Got Food Poisoning, And My Hotel Room Was Broken Into On The Day The Bears Played The Patriots In January 1986.