About four decades ago, I directed a weekly show with late, great, Chargers coach Sid Gillman. He used to bring his game films. Highly enlightening. He also used to invite a player along as a “guest”, then show a compilation of everything the guy had screwed up during the game. Our tyro sports guy, Jim Hill, was one of his favorite targets.
Nothing sinister here, really, and the answer is given in the article. NFL sells that footage to individual teams for coaching purposes.
In high school (yeah, I was a geek) I filmed all the games for the football team from the top deck covering half the field at a time. I, of course, wanted to zoom in to where the action was but the coaches wanted to be able to analyze coverages, offensive and defensive alignments. Made sense.
Cool story, thanks. Would love to hear some of your stories.
The point of the article is understandable to me. To spin off it, have you ever notice how you still don’t see some interesting things with the sideline cams?
Say for example, there was just a great “hit”...don’t you want to see both guys get up and wobble back to the huddle?
Instead we get nostril hairs.
It’s not the camera guys...they’re just following the directors orders.
Therefore, I submit that the directors, for the main, have never really played the game.
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