MINNEAPOLIS — Ask Bob Angelo when he was hired by NFL Films, and he’ll give you not only the date but also the exact time of day.
“June 6, 1975, 1:35 p.m.,’’ he said proudly.
You don’t remember the time of day you were hired 42 years after the fact unless you really love your job. And Angelo, like most of the people who have worked for the company founded by the father-son team of Ed and Steve Sabol, really, really does.
He started writing please-hire-me letters to Steve when he was an undergrad at Penn State and continued to pester him as a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.