FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


 
NFL FILMS
Returns To
Pottstown, Pennsylvania,
30 Years Later…
To Find “The King”
in
LOST  TREASURES OF NFL FILMS:
Pottstown Revisited
Volume VII of the Critically Acclaimed Series

PREMIERES ON ESPN CLASSIC  Friday, October 27 @ 9-11 PM (ET)


 

October 26, 2000


 30 years after producing a documentary film
about a semi-pro football team called the
Pottstown Firebirds, NFL FILMS returns to Pottstown, Pennsylvania in search of the
“The King” in Lost Treasures of NFL FILMS:
Volume VII ? Pottstown Revisited, hosted by
Steve Sabol.
 

This two-hour special of the critically acclaimed series for ESPN Classic premieres Friday, October 27 at 9 PM (ET)
The first part of the special is devoted to Pro Football: Pottstown, PA,
an NFL FILMS documentary that was produced in the early ‘70s byLost Treasures of NFL FILMS senior producer Phil Tuckett and filmed by Sabol.  The film profiled the 1970 Pottstown Firebirds, a minor-league football team made up of former NFL players and men who could not let go of the game, even if the game had let go of them.
In the second part of the special, Tuckett and Sabol return to Pottstown ? and stops in between ? to track down several of the players profiled in the original film, including the elusive "King" Corcoran.
 
The Lost Treasures of NFL FILMS series was created entirely from 400 hours of retrieved 16mm film footage that has never been previously aired. In 1962, before they became the premier filmmakers in sports, before they were even called NFL FILMS,
NFL FILMS was just a few men who loved making movies and loved professional football. Back in those days, when no one ever heard of “sports-programming,
” NFL FILMS’ only priority was to convince some Kiwanis clubs around the country that a few minutes of NFL FILMS highlights would show pro football in a radically new and exciting way.
Almost forty years later, NFL FILMS has produced
a million times over those original few-minute highlights.  However, Tuckett asked, “What happened to all sound and film that never made
it into those “first few minutes”?
 
In sifting through the NFL FILMS film archive ? the world’s largest sports film library ? not only did Tuckett discover the history of the NFL in the 1960s and some of the era’s lost players, but he also discovered the early beginnings of NFL FILMS.

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