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December 07, 2003
Ghoul-Cam Goes Audio
ESPN, the people who invented slow-motion, forward-and-back, multi-camera-angle coverage of gruesome, career-ending lower leg injuries, just blazed new territory. Every Sunday night, ESPN outfits a player with a wireless microphone to record footage for a segment that runs on the following week's pre-game show. Tonight, Carolina Panthers defensive end Mike Rucker was miked up when he went down with a knee injury as Falcons running back T.J. Duckett was being gang-tackled. Next dead ball, we're treated to the sounds of Rucker beseaching God as he lay on the turf in pain. This would have been an ideal time for ESPN Sunday Night Football color commentator Joe Theisman, who was on the business end of the original stomach-churning televised football injury, to choke the producer to death with his microphone cord.
Posted by Dan at December 7, 2003 09:13 PM
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