Full Album Links: Michigan Football at Indiana 2022 (Patrick Barron) Michigan Football at Indiana 2022 (Bryan Fuller) After the first Indiana touchdown I headed towards one of the endzone corners that Michigan would be attacking on the next drive. An event staff yelled at me to move because I was in the way of the emergency medical cart. I moved but was confused - I didn't see an injury on the touchdown play, or at least I didn't see the typical timeout that occurs when someone is down long enough to need the cart. I turned around and my heart sank when I saw the entire Michigan team taking a knee. [Patrick Barron]One of the worst sights in sports is seeing a cart come out. It takes the air out of everything. At the very least Mike Hart appeared alert as I watched the cart go to the ambulance in the tunnel. I was shook for the rest of the first half - especially considering this was Mike freakin' Hart. I started attending Michigan football games in the early 2000s. Mike
Full Album Link I'll sometimes go into a game with a certain thing in mind that I want to photograph – this week it was one of those “I CHEER FOR THE PUNTER” shirts. I figured I would find one eventually and it would be a silly photo. What I was not expecting was the entire dang stadium to be very on-brand. [Patrick Barron]A couple years ago I made a whole photo album dedicated to Lovie Smith's beard and this year's Iowa game I could dedicate an entire album to on-brand Iowa shirts and signs. [Patrick Barron]I appreciate the hell out of Iowa fans. They know their identity as a sports team (which has been the same for ~30 years) and they fully embrace it. For a time during this game I felt bad for them, that was until they started a “Fire Brian” chant and started hurdling stuff onto the field. Nothing hit me but at one point I looked down to my left and saw a can of Busch Light. Maybe this was dangerous, maybe this was simply a Kinnick Stadium baptism. It felt l
Typically when photographing a sports team you want to position yourself such that the faces of the team you're covering are facing towards you (which would mean we are in the endzone that Michigan is trying to score in). This can change, of course, depending on the course of the game. If Michigan is playing Rutgers and the Scarlet Knights have gone through three quarters without a first down then you don't have to move around much. If the other team has a world ending offense it makes more sense to go to the endzone they're scoring in for better photos because if the story of game becomes "Ohio State is going to score 60 points" then, well. that's the story we have to tell (sorry). This game was. confusing at times in this regard. The last three weeks were pretty straight forward because the ball only really went one direction so the photographers were able to camp in the endzone more than a Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer server. Maryland's offense w
You know the old saying - if you have seven quarterbacks, you have none. But then again, who needs quarterbacks when you have a running back scoring five touchdowns in one game, a feat that hasn't happened since. A point I made on Twitter last week was that with a weak nonconference schedule you get a lot of guys who wouldn't normally play much getting the chance to fulfill a dream of playing for Michigan. Some will contribute later down the road but some won't and these three weeks will be memories they cherish forever. Now from a photography perspective, these last three weeks have been busy because every time we see a guy and say "I don't know who that is??" it means we don't have photos of them, and therefore, must take many photos of them. While our Flickr page has ~250 images of Blake Corum (and, well, this week added quite a few more.), this was the first time we've actually photographed Davis Warren in action (besides the Spring Game)
Of all the night games played in Michigan Stadium, that was definitely one of them. I hope you are all feeling fresh and well rested after the delayed night game experience. Because I am not. Night game atmospheres are fun until you hear Carl Grapentine say "good morning" and realize you mis-interpreted the phrase "Jim Harbaugh's players play on Sundays." I got to Detroit metro at 2 a.m. this morning to catch my 8 a.m. flight. It delayed four hours because our original plane that was supposed to arrive had fumes in the fuselage that sent the crew to the hospital. At some point I dozed off on the floor and woke up with my arm completely numb because Detroit Metro is among the least user-friendly airports to urban camp in. This is the only sleep I got. I finished editing photos. Eventually several hours later Watson the Key Deer flew me home safely despite bouncing on landing. Thanks, Watson. Did you know if you go long enough without sleep you start to hallucin