Without Pat Bowlen's involvement in NFL broadcasting, David Hill says, you don't get the programming that has dominated American television for two decades.
That was Bowlen's vision as chairman of the NFL Broadcasting Committee in 1998, and he saw it through to completion.
"Pat Bowlen has had an indelible touch on the history of the National Football League," said Hill, former chairman of the FOX Sports Media Group. "When Pat became involved in it … when you looked at it on television terms that the games on Sunday were OK but they weren't barnburners — Pat's involvement and Pat's understanding of the media and what the NFL could do, it was his vision.