Rummaging Through That Box In The Garage

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By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter


Photo by Myung J. Chun / Sports Shooter

Robert Hanashiro models a collection from several photographers of various items given out at sports events that have sponsor logos, from Olympic vests and armbands to credential holders, lanyards to the credentials themselves.
It‘s amazing what you find in boxes in your garage.
You know, the things you get at events we cover like credentials, lanyards, credential holders, swag we thought was cool (at the time) and now just sits in a box in the garage? After hearing the complaints of photographers and publications over the NFL mandated "red vest policy" I got curious and dug through a boxful of "stuff" in my garage just to see what I could find.
Just like everyone else in our profession, I was dismayed and a bit angry that the NFL had instituted a league-wide policy requiring sideline still photographers to wear a bright red vest with not only the logo of the NFL on it, but also logos of two corporate sponsors, Canon and Reebok.
"Walking billboards" is what sideline photographers would become decried some. "Unethical" commented many because the vests were printed what amounted to an advertisement and broke a journalism tenet of not endorsing a product. "Screwing up the backgrounds" veteran football shooters bitched.
For me, I was thinking the last thing I wanted to wear was a non-breathing nylon vest over my clothes, blocking quick access to my gear and raising my body temperature another 10-degrees on a nice sunny and 80 day at QUALCOMM Stadium. It‘s a health and safety issue at least I moaned.