Single Wing Productions

Single Wing Productions presents two documentaries that will appeal to sports fans and Rochester history buffs alike! Click below to find out more…

The owner of Sticky Lips BBQ, Howard Nielsen, is an entrepreneur with many interests. One of his loves is producing documentaries. Out of that love, he produced When Football Was Bigger Than Life and Irondequoit: Lacrosse Town U.S.A.

 

When Football Was Bigger Than Life "Irondequoit:

 

1947 Aquinas High School Football Team Starting Line-up

Don Holleder catching the winning touchdown pass vs Manlius Military Academy, Thanksgiving 1951

Aquinas Memorial Stadium opening day cover 1942

Arial view of Aquinas Memorial Stadium, corner of Mt. Read and Ridgeway, in the famed 10th Ward neighborhood, summer of 1949

Stadium could hold 20,000 and expand to 25,000 with end zone bleachers.

Don Holleder posthumously awarded
Distinguished Service Cross
 

Purchase A Spartan Game on Amazon

Single Wing recommends
A Spartan Game, written by Terry Tibbetts,
a biography of football icon Don Holleder.

Purchase the book on Amazon

Single Wing recommends the memoir
of Johnny Antonelli