[10][11] The injuries the Ebersols sustained in the plane crash were extensive,[12][13] but he returned to Notre Dame to finish his senior year and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
[15] The movie received critical acclaim, winning the Toronto International Film Festival's first OneXOne award and inspired Oprah Winfrey to donate $1.14 million to the Ithuteng Trust School.
[16] He produced the documentaries Don't Look Down, about the life of Olympian Shaun White after he won Olympic Gold in 2006,[17] and Tradition Never Graduates, a film about Notre Dame Football.
[20] Early projects included TNT's The Great Escape,[7] executive produced with Bertram van Munster, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, and History's Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt.
[22] Ebersol co-created and executive produced NFL Characters Unite, a yearly television special with USA Network,[23] as well as The Profit and West Texas Investors Club on CNBC.
He was chosen by ESPN to direct the documentary because of his father's co-founding of the league, and he used the longtime friendship between Dick and WWE chairman Vince McMahon as the centerpiece for the film.
[31] On opening night, the AAF launched an app on which fans could follow games with low latency and win points by predicting plays in real time.
[42] In 2021, Ebersol co-founded Tempus Ex Machina with former AAF CTO Erik Schwartz and COO Annie Gerhart, receiving investment funding from firms including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Silver Lake, Endeavor, and Will Ventures.