The National Football League passed a new rule for this season that requires photographers at NFL games to wear red vests with Canon and Reebok logos on them. Naturally, sports shooters are a little pissed.“In Seattle and at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, we wore bibs that blended into the background,” NPPA president Tony Overman said today. “Making the vests red seems to go against previous practice, now making the vests highly visible (and therefore distracting) to everyone from players, officials, and ticket holders to television viewers.”

The players themselves aren’t permitted to market companies on their uniforms. Apparently the NFL has found an untapped marketing resource in the hundreds of photographers / little billboards on the sidelines.

Does this strike anyone else as particularly disgusting and repugnant?

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Posted July 19th, 2007