NFL Films on the way out?

The New York Times says NFL Films, the New Jersey-based company that has spent the last 50 years documenting the league’s history, may be on the way out.

The Times notes that NFL Films laid off 21 employees and that the league may have shifted its focus to higher-technology media and toward its own NFL Network.

It’d be a shame. More than once I’ve pleasantly wasted an afternoon I planned to spend working on projects listening to John Facenda narrate the nuances of the game.

Hopefully Patriots owner Robert Kraft was serious when he told the Philadelphia Daily News that NFL Films was a part of both the league’s past and its future.