I would like to start off with an apology, that I haven’t updated my blog in little over two months. With football season about to be in full swing I plan to update after game I shoot. The first weekend in August I was in Canton, Ohio for the biggest event in the small town of the year. The Pro Football Hall of Fame game between the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Dallas Cowboys.
The super bowl runner up Arizona Cardinals were in town playing the 2-11 Detroit Lions. When I first the game on the schedule, I was like this is going to be a blow out! I was wrong it was actually a pretty good game.
Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner warms up prior to the game. I usually don’t like shooting photos of the players with out shoulder pads on because they won’t ever sell, but I have never shot Kurt warner.
I was suppose to have the weekend off, but after a phone call asking to see if I could possibly go to Minnesota to shoot the Vikings vs. Bengals. I quickly researched some flights and they were $600 round trip which is crazy not sure why. But our Chicago shooter head to Minnesota and I took his place in Chicago covering the game.
Being a sports photographer you work strange hours including holidays. The Packers were playing the Lions on Thanksgiving Day. The Lions have been playing on Thanksgiving day for almost 70 years and I was happy I covered this game because it paid off in the end.
I got to the stadium, set up in the media room and got straight to work. At Ford Field there are these stairs the visitors team walks down to get to the field. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson (87) walks down the stairs prior to the game.
After a horrible game on Monday in Cleveland, I was up in Detroit covering the Browns Lions game. It was being a pretty hyped game. It is for the #1 overall draft pick in the 2010 NFL draft and both teams have nothing to lose so they will try just about anything to try and win. It was a extremely exciting game, with a lot of big plays all the way to the last seconds of the game where the Lions won on a 1 sec game winning touchdown with QB Matthew Stafford having a separated non throwing shoulder. To me that shows you want to win and that feeds directly to your teammates.
