jamespjones Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 <a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/07/nfl01.html">http://www.nppa.org/ news_and_events/news/2007/07/nfl01.html</a> <p> According to an article posted on the National Press Photographers Association website by Donald R. Winslow of News Photographer magazine, this coming season the NFL will require all photographers to wear red vests with brand logos. This has raised some concern among media outlets and photographers.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phyrpowr Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Just wait until NASCAR sees this idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akajohndoe Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Almost as fashionable as the red or gold real estate jackets... All kidding aside, this is just wrong to impose advertising on the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpolaski Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 What else would you expect from professional "sports"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 That's very clever of the NFL marketing guys: got to generate more revenue from somewhere to pay for Michael Vick's legal woes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackojones Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 What a crock. It's a good thing it wasn't released on April 1st or I would have thought it was an April Fools joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john lehman, college alask Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Professional sports are all about money -- why should this raise any concern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william_john_smith1 Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 All photographers we be required to use Canon cameras and wear Reebok shoes. A non- Canon camera can be used if the logo is taped over with the Canon logo. The same applies to non Reebok shoes, just tape over adidas and Nike. Also if by chance the photographer is using film only Fuji is allowed. Camera bags will be checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespjones Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share Posted July 23, 2007 I was hoping I was being duped by a joke story, but here is the follow-up: <p> <a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/07/nfl02.html">http:// www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/07/nfl02.html</a></p><Br><br> James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoni_perlmutter Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I would extend the mandatory logo'ed red vest to all photographers. A Constitutional Amendment might be in order. How are we to know who a photographer is is he's not in red? I was thinking . . . green vests for videographers, blue for sketch artists and a polka-dot arrangement for media people. All with Canon logos of course. Didn't Europe go through phases like this during the Middle Ages, and more recently during the 1940's. I don't reckon that it improved things all that much though it is true that eveyone knew his place. And now with the aid of these vests, photographers will too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_photo Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Why should you have to wear a vest with a logo or two when almost every shot you take in a stadium is going to have a few logos in it...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_photo Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I think I'd wear mine inside out and backside to.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsontsoi Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 <a href="http://www.sportsshooter.com/news_story.html?id=1807">Here's</a> some feedback from others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdnyc Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Since ethical photojournalists will refuse to wear these clown suits, might this be an attempt by the NFL to replace the working press with staff shooters and thus own all rights to all images shot professionally at the games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_smith3 Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 I thought we had antitrust laws that prevented restraint of trade in the United States? As far as I know the NFL doe snot have an exemption. What gives? Besides money of course. Joe Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned1 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Actually, many sports organizations DO have an exemption from anti-trust laws. I'm not sure about the NFL but the MLB does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdnyc Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Edward, I think it's ONLY MLB that has the exemption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Only major=league baseball has an antitrust exemption. It's the one and only business that's exempt. But what that has to do with red vests, I have no clue. They run the stadium and can clearly tell you what to wear if you want in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Tell them that your religion forbids wearing red vests unless the back of the vest depicts a raised fist with an extended middle finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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