Green Bay's Favre-ite
New Year's Eve 2006 may go down as the night that Green Bay Packers legend Brett Favre played his last NFL game. And I was there.
The game itself was meaningless because the Bears have already clinched home-field advantage for the playoffs, and the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs because of the New York Giants won plus the Packers lost the strength-of-schedule tiebreaker by virtue of not hitting their "superfecta" (they needed fact that the Packers didn't hit their superfecta of Arizona, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Minnesota, and a whole lot of other teams winning). What that means is this game was all about #4. So basically, I spent the whole pregame and first quarter shooting Brett Favre in all sorts of different positions and putting them up on the wire ASAP.
Of course, another story line developed in this game as well: the Bears are in trouble! The defense has kind of fallen apart (although to be fair, they were resting some starters), and the terrible quarterback play has reared its ugly head... again. The one thing Bears fans finally learned in this game is that if Rex Grossman sucks, backup Brian Griese probably ain't much better! There sure is a lot of angst in Chicago for their 13-3 football team!
OK, so back to Favre. After the game, he was pretty much swarmed by the media trying to get interviews/photos of him leaving the field. What a big mess. I wish I had a bit more body mass to throw around to jockey for positioning. I did get pretty close to him, but if you're not at the very front, you will get blocked out by other photographers and security personnel in front of you. The way around it is to either be patient and wait for heads to move out of the way or to elevate the camera above your head and shoot down. Now, I hate doing that because you're basically shooting blind. You have very little idea where your focus point is on, and very little idea of what you're camera is actually seeing. Sometimes you get great shots, but othertimes, not so much. I think I managed a few decent frames, but I don't think it's anything to brag about... oh well, it probably won't matter in the end because who are we all kidding? Sure he hasn't announced a final decision yet, but come on. This is Brett Favre. He'll likely be back for another season and we'll just do this all again next December!
The game itself was meaningless because the Bears have already clinched home-field advantage for the playoffs, and the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs because of the New York Giants won plus the Packers lost the strength-of-schedule tiebreaker by virtue of not hitting their "superfecta" (they needed fact that the Packers didn't hit their superfecta of Arizona, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Minnesota, and a whole lot of other teams winning). What that means is this game was all about #4. So basically, I spent the whole pregame and first quarter shooting Brett Favre in all sorts of different positions and putting them up on the wire ASAP.
Of course, another story line developed in this game as well: the Bears are in trouble! The defense has kind of fallen apart (although to be fair, they were resting some starters), and the terrible quarterback play has reared its ugly head... again. The one thing Bears fans finally learned in this game is that if Rex Grossman sucks, backup Brian Griese probably ain't much better! There sure is a lot of angst in Chicago for their 13-3 football team!
OK, so back to Favre. After the game, he was pretty much swarmed by the media trying to get interviews/photos of him leaving the field. What a big mess. I wish I had a bit more body mass to throw around to jockey for positioning. I did get pretty close to him, but if you're not at the very front, you will get blocked out by other photographers and security personnel in front of you. The way around it is to either be patient and wait for heads to move out of the way or to elevate the camera above your head and shoot down. Now, I hate doing that because you're basically shooting blind. You have very little idea where your focus point is on, and very little idea of what you're camera is actually seeing. Sometimes you get great shots, but othertimes, not so much. I think I managed a few decent frames, but I don't think it's anything to brag about... oh well, it probably won't matter in the end because who are we all kidding? Sure he hasn't announced a final decision yet, but come on. This is Brett Favre. He'll likely be back for another season and we'll just do this all again next December!
posted by Jerry at 12:53 PM
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