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Post by fantom on Apr 9, 2019 11:08:19 GMT -6
Wondering if anybody had funny stories about the guy who films your games. Off the top of my head I have a couple.
Our film guy once missed the opening kickoff of the state championship game. The game was played in a college stadium and they had big spread in the pressbox. Ed was so busy eating wings that the actual game took him by surprise.
Another time we had a different guy, not a JV kid or a volunteer but a faculty member who we paid. During a game a cloudburst broke out. Spielberg pointed the camera at the LOS, turned it to Record, threw plastic over the camera, then took cover. The first play we gain ten yards. Now we have a beautiful shot of the huddle but when we line up all you can see are the players's feet. The next play we score but all we can see is the 20 yard line. Fortunately, the rain stopped and he got the rest of the game.
That's when he redeemed himself. In the same game our best defensive player got ejected for "throwing a punch". That would have meant that he would have missed the next game, a much tougher one. Fortunately, there was an appeals process and, also fortunately, it wasn't raining so we got a great view of the play which clearly showed that our guy was swiping at the ball, not throwing a punch.
Anybody else have a story?
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Post by coachcb on Apr 9, 2019 11:16:40 GMT -6
We scrambled to find a kid to film a JV game for us as our manager was gone. We grabbed a couple of underclassmen, club-med kids, showed them how to use the camera and tossed them in the crow's nest. Bad idea on our part.
We got the film back those two goons spent half of the game video taping girls and women in the stands and giggling like Beavis and Butthead.
We had a pretty good laugh, ran the crap out of them for it and the deleted the film. We didn't want that getting out..
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Post by mnike23 on Apr 9, 2019 11:21:48 GMT -6
similar to your punch video.
sideline footage,
the defense about to sack my qb, he rolls out of it and gets the ball punched out, opponets best player picks it up and rumbling for the TD, so my qb tries to trip him(15 yd penalty but no TD.) it was a horrible attempt, so 1 of their kids comes from behind and blindsides my qb when he gets up, our best ol was on his way and he blindsides that kid.
my qb gets up and is holding team mates back, being that he knew what was about to ensure.
refs eject qb, the best player from them and the blindside D player.
well we had no actual footage of it from sideline. you saw some of it, but never any of the blindside hits or the trip attempt.
plus,
the white hat was the ejector, but never saw any of it, he was upfield for whatever reason.
the sideline guys sprinting to the endzone ahead of the play thinking it was sure fire TD
the back judge was the ONLY GUY WHO COULD HAVE SEEN ANYTHING, was the guy who said he saw punches thrown, from 40 yards away.
end zone copy shows him running after the play(which is how I know all this too), his flag drops out of his pocket, he stops and picks it up, misses the entire play, all of it happened so fast, but he sprints down an when they are talking about seeing any punches, NOBODY SAW IT, EXCEPT THE GUY BENT OVER PICKING UP THE FLAG.
we sent the video the state
nobody recieved an ejection.
and since, when those refs see me, i know its gonna be a long ass night.
lol
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Post by CoachP on Apr 9, 2019 17:54:33 GMT -6
We had used an injured player (wasn't the brightest) showed him how to use the camera.
Informed him to start recording when we are at LOS (no huddle) and to stop a couple of seconds after the whistle.
What does he do? Start recording after each play and stop it when we line up.
He got some grief from his teammates for missing "highlights" but overall we laughed about it.
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Post by tbel57 on Apr 9, 2019 19:46:32 GMT -6
At one of my former schools, our film guy would forget to turn the camera off and would be panning around the crowd and zooming in on the beautiful ladies in attendance. We got to see most of the pretty women there rooting for and against us!! It was awesome. LOL
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Post by coachscdub on Apr 9, 2019 20:07:54 GMT -6
We had a kid who was a solid player but had a real bad attitude problem. Well he was suspended for one of the games and was sent up to the booth to film. He didnt know the camera had audio, so after the game we're watching film and all you hear is the kid talking about how the kids on the team who werent his friends all sucked, questioning why i played who i played. Talking about how our HC was an idiot, etc.
Our HC asked him after this if he knew that cameras had a built in microphone, his face went pale and dropped quicker than you can imagine. Priceless
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Post by coachdubyah on Apr 10, 2019 5:05:10 GMT -6
Not really a game film story but still funny.
My High School coach was doing selected by Glazier to do a Clinic talk on the Wing T. He was getting a drill video together. He got a buddy of mine to video his drill work one day after school. This was January my Sr year of HS. My buddy was a Jr (and a little bit of an idiot).
Coach said “ok I want you to film me while I go thru these drills”. Those were his exact words.
That night my coach pops the tape in and it’s literally him for an hour. Not the guys doing the drills. Literally him blowing a whistle and talking the whole time. Shot was from the waste up. Needless to say coach got me to do it the next day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 5:59:11 GMT -6
When I was at a small school in the middle of nowhere, the HC couldn't get an adult to film our games so we relied on wounded players to do it.
For about 3 weeks, we had a SPED kid who was very selfish and obviously faking an injury go up there to film.
In one game, he got out of synch and filmed all the standing around and spotting the ball, but hit "pause" when the teams lined up and missed the plays for the entire first half.
In another game, he got bored with filming so he lied and said the battery died at halftime. He went down into the stands to hang out with his friends and eat a hot dog instead.
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Post by Defcord on Apr 10, 2019 5:59:50 GMT -6
We had a kid who was a solid player but had a real bad attitude problem. Well he was suspended for one of the games and was sent up to the booth to film. He didnt know the camera had audio, so after the game we're watching film and all you hear is the kid talking about how the kids on the team who werent his friends all sucked, questioning why i played who i played. Talking about how our HC was an idiot, etc. Our HC asked him after this if he knew that cameras had a built in microphone, his face went pale and dropped quicker than you can imagine. Priceless Our filmers didn't turn off the sound on our camera this past year in our first game and I used some choice words in the booth. I didn't say anything about anyone personally, but we were on defense for the last possession of the game. The other team called timeout so I told our coaches on the headsets to make sure to remind the DBs of their responsibility to trips and empty because they have only one or two plays left and they are going to throw a deep ball. They come out in trips and we line up and cover wrong. You can hear me say rather excitedly "we are a bunch of GD dummies; how the helll do we come out of a timeout without knowing the adjustment?" We leave their #3 wide-open on a post route but they had a mega stud that our safety responsible for the #3 immediately broke to and we pick it to end the game. My next line before the camera cutoff was "motherf-cker...I guess we will clean that up on Monday, I am coming down." The kids noticed it on Saturday and it got mentioned in the group chat so they all had a good laugh about it but I definitely made sure the sound was off after that game. |
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Post by planck on Apr 10, 2019 7:18:06 GMT -6
We had a injured kid recording for one of our games. Our QB gets dogpiled and some guys give him the business. He gets up and a fracas starts.
None of this is on video, because the kid filming starts waving the camera around and yelling "EFF THIS" and generally cursing up a storm, like a worldstar video. It was unhelpful, but very funny.
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Post by wolverine55 on Apr 10, 2019 7:36:27 GMT -6
These were both at my previous coaching job. Had one pressbox where a board stuck out at an odd angle and our camera person never adjusted to it. So, from the pressbox angle, we couldn't see anything past the right side of the 50 yard line the whole game.
Then, we had a camera person get thrown off to where he was recording between the plays, then turning it off during the play. Happens sometimes, but normally the person catches it right away. He went the whole first half without catching it.
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Post by SconnieOC on Apr 10, 2019 7:40:40 GMT -6
When I was a GA we had a kid who was our filmer, definitely had something, maybe on the spectrum, but certainly functional enough to get into college and graduate. Had one of those weird memories that certain things never left his brain. Nice kid but definitely opinionated.
-Filmed a whole half in between plays (which I feel like we've all probably gone through at some point)
-During practice would coach the players from the pressbox on camera, telling our WR's they were running the wrong routes, or our QBs made a terrible read, and he would legit talk to the camera like he was in a meeting, even occasionally turning it on himself in between plays to make an emphasis on a coaching point.. it would have been impressive if he knew what he was talking about
-During a game, he spent the whole first quarter talking to the visitors filmer about the Packers, and then marvel comics until the other guy finally said "Dude, stop talking to me, I can't concentrate and I'm going to get fired" to which his response was, "I don't care about your job, you're going to have to sit here and deal with me all day long"
We always turned audio off on Hudl so our kids wouldn't hear it but as coaches we would sit there for hours just laughing at his antics.
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Post by Defcord on Apr 10, 2019 7:47:34 GMT -6
These were both at my previous coaching job. Had one pressbox where a board stuck out at an odd angle and our camera person never adjusted to it. So, from the pressbox angle, we couldn't see anything past the right side of the 50 yard line the whole game. Then, we had a camera person get thrown off to where he was recording between the plays, then turning it off during the play. Happens sometimes, but normally the person catches it right away. He went the whole first half without catching it. When you said "get thrown off" my mind thought someone was taking a quick exit from the press box. |
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Post by planck on Apr 10, 2019 8:12:22 GMT -6
Oh lord, I almost forgot the all time most awkward video audio. At my first stop, we had all girls as trainers. They did the video as well. During my second year there, the girls spent the entirety of a game discussing how to give oral sex. Apparently one of the girls hadn't tried it yet and the others were giving her tips.
We had to have a very, very discrete discussion with our trainers after that. Also, I used a screwdriver to break the microphones on all of the cameras.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 10, 2019 8:26:01 GMT -6
When I was a GA we had a kid who was our filmer, definitely had something, maybe on the spectrum, but certainly functional enough to get into college and graduate. Had one of those weird memories that certain things never left his brain. Nice kid but definitely opinionated. -Filmed a whole half in between plays (which I feel like we've all probably gone through at some point) -During practice would coach the players from the pressbox on camera, telling our WR's they were running the wrong routes, or our QBs made a terrible read, and he would legit talk to the camera like he was in a meeting, even occasionally turning it on himself in between plays to make an emphasis on a coaching point.. it would have been impressive if he knew what he was talking about -During a game, he spent the whole first quarter talking to the visitors filmer about the Packers, and then marvel comics until the other guy finally said "Dude, stop talking to me, I can't concentrate and I'm going to get fired" to which his response was, "I don't care about your job, you're going to have to sit here and deal with me all day long" We always turned audio off on Hudl so our kids wouldn't hear it but as coaches we would sit there for hours just laughing at his antics.
This is GOLD.
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Post by CoachUndershirt on Apr 23, 2019 9:23:03 GMT -6
I was an undergrad slappy intern for an FCS program and my job was to film the endzone angle for both practice and games. I got my backside ripped because I missed the first two series of the second half of a road game. I let the LB's coach -my boss- scream at me for a good three or four minutes and then gave him the reason which was the drunk mayor who owned the rental company that loaned our opponents their scissor lift took an equally drunk friend up during halftime and couldn't figure out how to get back down...
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Post by brian3413 on Apr 23, 2019 10:26:32 GMT -6
We always had a dad that would film our endzone camera. His favorite drink was a 20 OZ Pepsi with a little adult juice in it. We would hide it in one of the compartments of the chair we let him use. Of course all this done without our HC knowing. Well it's game three and all of the sudden the dad couldn't make it so the head coach decided to find an injured player. Needless to say I have never seen our coach that sets up the endzone camera run so fast in his life after he found out who was going to be filming...
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Post by somecoach on Apr 23, 2019 22:29:02 GMT -6
One game an overzealous opposing team parent thought our end zone angle guy was some sort of spy gate and was yelling at him to turn the camera off. He followed up by telling him to go F$&@ himself.
Ofcourse I was not notified of this and a year later I’m showing the JV a particular play of that opening drive and the speakers are on full blast and all you hear is. “LISTEN BUDDY ILL STICK THIS F$&@ing camera up your a$$. If you have a problem go tell the official to stop the F$&@ing game!”
... couldn’t keep them focused after that one lol
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Post by somecoach on Apr 23, 2019 22:35:24 GMT -6
Just remembered another one ...
Had a parent volunteer to be the iPad film guy.
There was a bad call in which the HC was giving the ref a talking to...
All of the sudden the parent runs 40 yards from the end zone yelling “Ref Ref I got it on film, it wasn’t hold look! Look!”
Luckily this ref has a sense of humor and goes “Sir there’s no instant replay in this league”
... needless to say he was up in the booth for the rest of his tenure
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Post by lmorris on Apr 24, 2019 6:38:05 GMT -6
I was a head JH coach about 10 years ago and the head SH coach had his 10 year old son filming the game. I hadn't had time to review the film before showing it to the kids that week. Anyhow, you hear the head coach 2-3 plays in a row asking his son....did you get it? to which the son would reply..not yet. After 2-3 plays the play is finishing and the camera doesn't cut off it starts panning down to the sideline, then the cheerleaders. Of course they are in the middle of the cheer and he is zoomed in scrolling across one by one the boys are getting into it talking about she's cute and what not, then it stops on a male cheerleader at the end of the line. The boys lost it.
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 8:27:51 GMT -6
it was basketball
but I was the JV coach and the fresman coach was a young guy with a girlfriend that was a complete stunner. So we have these two student managers filming the game (male) and coach's girlfriend shows up to the game.
These two idiots are smart enough not to point the camera at her the whole game, but they aren't smart enough to know that cameras pick up sound
they proceed to spend the entire game talking about the things they would do to her in all the details that a sophomore boy could muster.
At one point one kid gave an entire elaborate fantasy about how if he could freeze time he could go over there to her .....you can probably guess the rest
it was freaking hilarious, the coach wasn't mad or anything we just laughed our butts off and scared the kids by threatening to play it for their moms
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