You might not know the name, but you know the voice. John Facenda is the voice of NFL Films, and although I can't find any NFL Films videos he narrates (NFL Films goes after YouTube like a pit bull on a poodle), here's a college football video he narrated:
Facenda has died, but his famous voice lives on, and now it's the subject of a lawsuit. Facenda's voice was used in an hour-long show on NFL Network promoting Madden 2006 without his family's permission. I don't know all the details of who owns the rights to his voice, but I do know that Facenda's voice is football, and I support anything that allows younger fans to hear it.
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Family of John Facenda Sues NFL Films
Posted Apr 10th 2007 7:42AM by Michael David Smith
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4-10-2007 @ 9:10AM
matt said...
I am assuming that the family owns the right to his voice and I am against the NFL using his intellectual property without the express agreement of the family. The NFL is one most diligent companies when coming to protecting their copy written properties so why should they be above the law. The blog is right his voice is synonymous with football and it would be great for younger fans to hear it, to experience how his diction and tone in describing the game helped make so many people love the game of football. Yet that does not give a multibillion dollar industry the right to use it. They should have to the family and gain the legal permission to use it. If not they could have found a person with a close imitation of his voice. This legal battle is not about what would fit the NFL, big business, needs it is about the right of the individual.
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