• Recently Written

  • Testing Flock
  • I’m a Beer Nerd
  • Philly Cabbie Scams
  • Turkey Chili Recipe
  • Friggin’ Outstanding!
  • Organic Beer?
  • Good Chow in Big “D”
  • Calling All Blue-tards
  • HDMI Incites Hellish Rash
  • CES 2008

• Categories

  • beverages
  • bitching
  • food
  • home
  • jobs
    • NFL
  • tech
  • travel
  • Uncategorized

• Archives

  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007

• Blogroll

  • Friends of Orianna Hill Park
  • Little Shorty Monkey dot com
  • Northern Liberties dot ORG
  • ParkerDigital
  • PowerPage
  • PPUG
  • TechThoughts.org

• Admin

  • Login
  • Wordpress
  • XHTML

• Search

People are always asking me about my work for NFL Films. They seem fascinated by it. I’ll admit it’s a good job on a number of levels. Not the least of which is the marketing factor for the rest of my business. People are impressed by NFL Films and working for them seems to trick people into thinking I’m good. I shouldn’t say that. I just wanna stay humble.

Quiet confidence is good. There are plenty of guys I work with who think their crap doesn’t stink just because they shoot guys who throw a ball real good. Guess what, Hoss, you ain’t saving lives. Let’s not lose sight of that.

I really enjoy being on an NFL sideline in the fall so I’ll probably keep doing this as long as they let me. I’m certainly not doing it for the money. ‘Nuff said on that one.

I shot the Vikings/Jets game at the Meadowlands in week 2 of the preseason. NFL Films produces a show called Hey Rookie which airs on ESPN. They follow some of the top draft picks around during the preseason and assemble a show about their experiences as they enter the league. I have shot Hey Rookie for four seasons now. It’s a pretty good gig.

This year I was shooting Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. He had a good night - scored his first NFL touchdown - and was happy to tell us all about it on camera. He looks like a real player. I think the Vikings will be a contender this season. Their defense had a great night. I know, I know, it’s only the preseason.

The strangest thing I encountered while shooting Hey Rookie was two years ago in Denver. The Broncos and 49ers had just finished the third game of the preseason and I was standing outside the 9ers locker room with NFL Films soundman Al Feurbach.

We were waiting to interview then rookie quarterback Alex Smith. All of the sudden people started running in and out of the 49ers locker room. There was definitely something very bad happening but none of us knew what it was. We were speculating that maybe someone had collapsed. Boy were we right. About 15 minutes later, an ambulance backed up to the door and out on a stretcher came 23 year old Thomas Herrion, a young offensive tackle who was trying to make the team. He had collapsed as coach Mike Nolan was finishing up his post-game speech to the team.

As they rolled him out of the locker room - in uniform - and loaded him onto the ambulance there were people who were clearly making desperate attempts to save his life. They were giving him CPR and it really didn’t look good. Herrion was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later and needless to say, we didn’t do the interview with our rookie.

Crazy, sad stuff.