- February 12th, 2007, 6:32 am
#60102
One time when I was an editor with the school paper, we were about to go to print when someone noticed something...
On the back page (if you've seen the Liberty Champion, the front page of the sports section is on the back page of the paper), our biiiiiig photo was one with a freshman wide receiver diving to grab the football as he was being tackled. He was seriously parallel to the ground, his arms were outstretched and the pigskin was in a "will-he-catch-it, will-he-not" position in his hands.
It really was an amazing photo... and we had to spike it because, as someone noticed minutes before sending it out to print, the defender had his arms wrapped around our WR, and his right hand had a firm grip on his crotch.
I put up a significant stink about how A) it was a great photo and B) no one would notice -- i certainly hadn't -- and C) who cares anyway... but to no avail.
Of course, I probably didn't help my cause by unintentionally having this as the caption for the photo: "Don't drop the ball".
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