My NFL Baptism of Fire

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Published: June 10, 2009

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... class="MsoNormal" >That one’s easy.

 

Ask the question in most sports bars and you’ll immediately hear “quarterback” or “wide receiver.” And yeah, if you limit the discussion to the players, that’s probably pretty accurate.

 

However, the most dangerous job in professional football is that of photographer.

 

One crisp Sunday back in 1980, I found out about that the hard way.

 

I was the sports editor of the Bayshore Sun, a little suburban newspaper on Galveston Bay outside Houston, and had wangled credentials to cover the Oilers. This was in the days before the Internet, of course, so people actually read newspapers back then.

 

It was actually k...

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