Even after brain cancer stole both his mobility and his instantly recognizable nasal voice, Steve Sabol would occasionally roll his wheelchair through NFL Films' corridors, adding art or a newly discovered artifact to the walls, checking in on a Hard Knocks soundtrack, leaving inspirational messages for producers he'd helped prepare for a day they understood was coming too soon.
"When he was dying, I came in and he'd left this note on my desk," said Keith Cossrow, a senior coordinating producer for the iconic company Sabol and his father built. "It said, `There's no future in any job.