{"id":24840,"date":"2024-02-25T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test11.f5test.in.ua\/personal-stories\/football-in-america-doc\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:12:28","slug":"football-in-america-doc","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/concussionandcte.org\/en-ca\/personal-stories\/inspiring-stories\/football-in-america-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Documentary: &#8220;Football in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted: November 20, 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I submitted this film to the Sports Emmy group back in 1982. I was amazed when it got nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming and shocked when my brother in law called me to say he had accepted the award for me. Our small crew consisted of me as director\/cameraman\/interviewer, and an assistant\/sound person. Funding for the film was a PBS grant out of WNET in New York City. What was most telling to me was that the sports industry was acknowledging that there was a problem with the game of football and it deserved attention. 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