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Cowboys practice field roof collapses

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Football_Bat, May 2, 2009.

  1. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Now AP is reporting that the Cowboys coach who was injured, has a broken vertebrae in his back and is "lucky" not to have been paralyzed.
     
  2. Jesus_Muscatel

    Jesus_Muscatel Well-Known Member

    Sonuvabitch.

    This sucks.

    I saw Todd Archer was indirectly quoted on AOL so I guess he's OK. I hope everybody is.
     
  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    AP story quoted Archer, who came out with only a couple of scrapes. That's meta.
     
  4. SockPuppet

    SockPuppet Active Member

    Cowboys collapse in December, practice facility collapses in May.
     
  5. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    I briefly thought about using a variation of that in my headline, until I found out how badly injured the coach was.
     
  6. Smash Williams

    Smash Williams Well-Known Member

    Archer's column: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/tarcher/stories/050309dnspoarcher.3e2a5d1.html

    An FWST guy describes the scene: http://www.star-telegram.com/332/story/1354358.html

    I'm still a little unnerved by this, given the amount of time I spent in that facility. Apparently a "microburst," or 60 mph winds and rain almost straight down, cause the collapse.
     
  7. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    Jones was in Louisville, trying to double up on some pocket change to make a new stadium payment. Bet on it.
     
  8. mediaguy

    mediaguy Well-Known Member

    Watching that footage, just glad there's as few injuries as there were.

    Not in any way questioning anyone involved, but if you're a TV cameraman in something like this, is there a point at which you put down the camera and help make sure there's nobody seriously injured? I know you're there for a reason professionally, but just wondering what the thought process is.
     
  9. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    As a former TV photog...

    Yeah, there's a point when you would do that, but this wasn't it. For me it essentially boils down to "Do they really need my help right now?"

    If I'm shooting a house fire and a woman appears on the second floor with a baby, I'm putting down the camera and catching the baby. If a fabric roof collapses in a storm and I'm surrounded by professional football players trying to figure out what they should do, I'm still rolling.

    I guess if I feel that things will be made worse by my failure to help, I'll help. Thankfully, I never found myself in that position.
     
  10. why?
     
  11. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

     
  12. Trouser_Buddah

    Trouser_Buddah Active Member

    That. Sucks. :(
     
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