Chicago Shamrox
For the second time in two years, Chicago welcomes another professional lacrosse team. In June 2006, Major League Lacrosse introduced the Chicago Machine. Here in January 2007, the National Lacrosse League has introduced the Chicago Shamrox.
Wait, there's a professional lacrosse league? Wait, there are TWO professional lacrosse leagues? Well, the MLL is an outdoor league, and is more "traditional." The NLL is an indoor league, and some people might call it a "bastardized" version of lacrosse. A similar comparison would be what the Arena Football League is to the National Football League. Why's that? Well, just like the AFL is to football, the NLL plays on a smaller field, promises bigger hits, faster action, and of course, lots of razzle dazzle. I mean honestly, doesn't fire, glowsticks, rock music, and scantily clad cheerleaders make you think of indoor lacrosse? It does for me!
OK, all that said, I did enjoy shooting this game. I've always liked shooting lacrosse because it's not what we'd consider a "traditional" sport here in the midwest. Plus, just like hockey, the game is extremely fast paced, which helps keep viewers (and photographers!) engaged. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that even though the Sears Centre is a new arena, it doesn't have any photo holes in the glass like they do at Blackhawks games. So shooting action from field level was really spotty because of the glare, not to mention that shooting through the plexi glass really degrades the image quality. I mean, I really loved looking at my pictures after the game and finding a large percentage of them useless because of seeing random patterns from people/arena lights being reflected into all my images or being out of focus/warped by the glass or both. To counter those problems due to the glass, I shot some of the game upstairs from the upper concourses. For future Shamrox games, I may spend more time up there just so I don't have to deal with the glass.
In the end, the Shamrox did not disappoint the crowd, as they pulled off a 15-12 victory over the New York Titans in their inaugural game. So how did the Shamrox win this game? Easy, making the most of their offensive chances, and doing a great job killing the power play.
Or, we can just credit this victory as more proof of "cheerleader professionalism." (It's a theory that ESPN's Greg Easterbrook coined realting a team's chances of victory to how uhhh, little, said team's cheerleader's wear... he and his readers cite examples of this almost every week in the NFL as part of his column "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" or TMQ for short).
Wait, there's a professional lacrosse league? Wait, there are TWO professional lacrosse leagues? Well, the MLL is an outdoor league, and is more "traditional." The NLL is an indoor league, and some people might call it a "bastardized" version of lacrosse. A similar comparison would be what the Arena Football League is to the National Football League. Why's that? Well, just like the AFL is to football, the NLL plays on a smaller field, promises bigger hits, faster action, and of course, lots of razzle dazzle. I mean honestly, doesn't fire, glowsticks, rock music, and scantily clad cheerleaders make you think of indoor lacrosse? It does for me!
OK, all that said, I did enjoy shooting this game. I've always liked shooting lacrosse because it's not what we'd consider a "traditional" sport here in the midwest. Plus, just like hockey, the game is extremely fast paced, which helps keep viewers (and photographers!) engaged. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that even though the Sears Centre is a new arena, it doesn't have any photo holes in the glass like they do at Blackhawks games. So shooting action from field level was really spotty because of the glare, not to mention that shooting through the plexi glass really degrades the image quality. I mean, I really loved looking at my pictures after the game and finding a large percentage of them useless because of seeing random patterns from people/arena lights being reflected into all my images or being out of focus/warped by the glass or both. To counter those problems due to the glass, I shot some of the game upstairs from the upper concourses. For future Shamrox games, I may spend more time up there just so I don't have to deal with the glass.
In the end, the Shamrox did not disappoint the crowd, as they pulled off a 15-12 victory over the New York Titans in their inaugural game. So how did the Shamrox win this game? Easy, making the most of their offensive chances, and doing a great job killing the power play.
Or, we can just credit this victory as more proof of "cheerleader professionalism." (It's a theory that ESPN's Greg Easterbrook coined realting a team's chances of victory to how uhhh, little, said team's cheerleader's wear... he and his readers cite examples of this almost every week in the NFL as part of his column "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" or TMQ for short).
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