DOUBLEHEADER OF NEW A FOOTBALL LIFE EPISODES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 ON NFL NETWORK
Friday, December 5 on NFL Network –
‘Roger Staubach: A Football Life’ at 9:00 PM ET
‘Dick Butkus & Gale Sayers: A Football Life’ at 10:00 PM ET
NFL Network’s documentary series A Football Life returns with a doubleheader of new episodes Friday, December 5. At 9:00 PM ET, A Football Life profiles Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach, followed by legendary Chicago Bears teammates Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers at 10:00 PM ET.
Emmy-nominated actor Josh Charles narrates both episodes.
Following the premieres of Roger Staubach: A Football Life and Dick Butkus & Gale Sayers: A Football Life on NFL Network, the episodes – along with the entire A Football Life series – will be available on NFL Now, the League’s next-generation video service. Providing fans access to the largest digital library of NFL video anywhere, NFL Now dynamically personalizes each fan’s viewing experience, allowing them to follow their favorite NFL teams and players. Visit NFL.com/now for more information.
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Roger Staubach: A Football Life includes interviews with the following people and more:
Roger Staubach
Marianne Staubach – Wife
Jennifer Staubach Gates – Daughter
Jeff Staubach – Son
Michelle Staubach Grimes – Daughter
Amy Staubach Mentgen – Daughter
Stephanie Staubach Phillips – Daughter
Troy Aikman – Former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback
Bill Belichick – New England Patriots Head Coach
Gil Brandt – Former Dallas Cowboys Vice President of Player Personnel
Bob Lilly – Dallas Cowboys Teammate
Brad Sham – Dallas Cowboys radio announcer
Mike Ditka – Dallas Cowboys Teammate
Craig Morton – Dallas Cowboys Teammate
Charlie Waters – Dallas Cowboys Teammate
Drew Pearson – Dallas Cowboys Teammate
Steve Young – Hall of Fame Quarterback
John Elway – Hall of Fame Quarterback
Chris Christie – Governor of New Jersey
Provided below are select quotes from Roger Staubach: A Football Life:
– “All of us quarterbacks who have come since Roger, we’ve been playing catch up trying to live up to an image and to a position that he helped create.” – Troy Aikman
– “That’s what made Roger great. He would feel you coming and he would just spin out like he had eyes in the back of his head.” – Bob Lilly
– “I did not fit his ideal, perfect quarterback because I did run quite a bit. But he also saw that I would figure out how to win.” – Roger Staubach on how his style clashed with Cowboys head coach Tom Landry
– “Right now if you asked us it’s your dad versus Kevin Durant in a free throw competition for one shot. You have to make one and if you don’t, you lose a million dollars. We might take Dad.” – Jeff Staubach
– “He’s the kind of guy that when you got in a huddle, you wanted to follow him. It’s that simple.” – Mike Ditka
– “Roger brought out the hero in all of us.” – Drew Pearson
– “He’s everything that people think that he is and that’s rare. Roger is held to such a lofty standard that it would be hard for anyone to be able to live up to that, but he does.” – Troy Aikman
Dick Butkus & Gale Sayers: A Football Life includes interviews with the following people and more:
Dick Butkus
Gale Sayers
Ricky Butkus – Dick’s son
Nikki Butkus – Dick’s daughter
Matt Butkus – Dick’s son
Helen Butkus – Dick’s wife
Gaylon Bullard – Gale’s son
Ardie Sayers – Gale’s wife
Mike Ditka – Chicago Bears teammate
Jack Youngblood – Hall of Fame defensive end
Rick Telander – Chicago sportswriter
Dan Pompei – Chicago sportswriter
Ed O’Bradovich – Chicago Bears teammate
Doug Buffone – Chicago Bears teammate
Provided below are select quotes from Dick Butkus & Gale Sayers: A Football Life:
– “Chicago is a city of iconic images often paired together…The Windy City rests on the shoulders of two legends with two football lives that will be forever intertwined.” – Rick Telander
– “They provided an incredible yin and yang. From Butkus you have this great brutality. From Sayers you have grace.” – Dan Pompei
– “I played against him every day in practice. There is nobody, no one as tough as Dick Butkus. The only advice that Coach Halas gave to me was to watch out for him.” – Gale Sayers
– “You didn’t talk about the interceptions he made or the way he could drop into coverage or all of those things. He was a complete football player, but what people remember about him was the contact part of it.” – Mike Ditka on Dick Butkus
– “People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.” – Gale Sayers
This season, A Football Life airs Friday at 9:00 PM ET on NFL Network. Below is the broadcast schedule for upcoming episodes of A Football Life:
- December 19 – Keenan McCardell & Jimmy Smith
- January 2 – The 2006 Rose Bowl
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