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While in Detroit for a corporate shoot I was offered some free tickets to the Tigers/Red Sox game at Tiger Field. The tickets were unbelievable--16 rows behind home plate! Sadly, the Tigers lost 5-1....

Thanks for a great night Detroit!

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Even the most experienced crew sometimes has trouble with the simplest things. Steel will support you much better than foam wrapped in vinyl.

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Only 24.5 hours to kickoff!

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Newark, De. Home of the Blue Hens

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On my way to Outlaw racing in Charlotte. I will be running jib for Speed.

Jeff Reed

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This image was sent to us by KF contributor Jeff Lingle.

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Here's the Camera Cart at (almost) full height.

Jeff Reed

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please allow me to tell you about the Camera Cart. This is how I get to go to all those football games. You will see something like this at every televised football game. A camera is mounted in the basket and an operator belts himself in. I sit in the chair and raise the basket in the air. I then drive back and forth on the sideline throughout the game.
Pretty good gig when you can get there.
WAIT...
Who's that in the woods?

I'll tell you more about the cart later...

Jeff Reed

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As usual, I'm the first to arrive.

Jeff Reed

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Waiting to fax cameras @ Georgia Tech.

Jeff Reed

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Having gotten back from Richmond late the previous night, I arrived early for the game. Upon my arrival, I found that my truck-and-trailer parking from previous seasons had been taken by two Domino's Pizza trucks. Apparently it is more important to sell pizza than to televise the football game.

The TV compound parking attendant asked me to pull all the way behind the TV truck (you can, just barely, see the nose of Corky's truck poking out in the photo). I knew that this was going to delay the loading of my cart onto the trailer. I would not be able to move the truck because all of the other members of the TV crew would have me blocked in.

At the end of the evening, I had my cart ready to go very quickly. I waited a couple of hours while cameras and equipment were carried out of the stadium and loaded into the truck. Usually the cart driver is one of the first to leave because the job, although requiring astute attention, concentration and skill, is otherwise very easy. As the slide-out of the TV truck was slid in and the jockey boxes were finally closed, I told the truck-driver that he should go ahead and pull out before I loaded my cart.

As he pulled out I noticed that, other than a few drunken tail-gaters across the street, I appeared to be the only one left at Neyland Stadium. Only a few hours earlier there had been well over 100,000 people here but now I was alone.

It was eerie.

I have already scoped out better parking for my next home game.

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Today I am on my way to Marshall University in Huntington, WV. I am delivering one of the big blue True Grip camera carts to its new driver and answering his questions. Easy gig but someone has to do it.

Look for me Saturday Night at the University of Tennessee football game. I'll be the guy driving the big blue thing up and down the field with the cameraman standing on top. Now that's a fun gig. Try to take some pix of me if you can. I haven't been able to take a picture of myself operating the cart (for obvious reasons) and it's something I'd like to have a record of.

Unless I run over someone.

Then just forget the pix.

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Looking the other way from the roof.

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Don't I look official?

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The view of the Craftsman Truck Series practice laps from the vantage of cameras 1, 2 and 10, atop the media suites. The racing begins tomorrow.

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Getting set for a week of racing @ Bristol Motor Speedway. The first TV trucks arrive and are being unloaded. Pix of the TV compound soon to follow.

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Where did it go? It's going to be hard for me to keep from running over people with the sideline cart.

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