Your thoughts on this one?

I could see TV or radio guys doing this without a second thought. Most broadcast guys around here are cheerleaders anyway.

Now as far as a reporter goes, no way do you take part in this.

 

Count me among the nos.

 

Somone wrote about wearing the team's gear --- "You wouldn't do that on Game day in the fall..."

Apparently you've never been in the press box at either West Virginia or Notre Dame because 90 percent of the people in both have never gotten that memo nor do they give a rat's ass about the CFA disclaimer on cheering in the press box.......

 

This happened near me, too ... the writer wore a hat and shirt, and roamed the sidelines. Afterward the coach brought him in front of the team and thanked him, and the players clapped. It was sickening for me. Of course, i wasn't asked to do it, so I don't know how I would have declined the invite.

 

I know it's different because they aren't beat reporters but Verducci wore Jays stuff in spring training a few years ago and I'm assuming McCallum did when he was an asst. with the Suns in the preseason last year.

I don't think you should wear the gear when you're covering the games, but if you're going to do the "honorary coach" thing I don't think a shirt makes that much of a difference.

 

I don’t want to get in the way of some good self-righteous ethical chest thumping, but in the hands of the right writer this could be a hell of a good piece.

 

I see that as being part of their assignments. Their jobs for those pieces required them to be embedded with those teams, in as many facets as possible.

 

Perhaps, but in those situations it was dealing with a magazine and a feature piece, not beat writers who cover the team on a daily basis.

 

man, I would get into so many fights if I ever had to work in those conditions

fuck those assholes

 

I was surprised the guys (at least some of them) agreed to do this -- or that their papers let them do it.

 

When I was a beat guy covering college football, I always made sure the colors of my shirts and sweaters were not even close to those of either team I was covering that day. I made a mistake one time and wound up with only a purple sweater for a game I was covering at U. Washington. The logo was from some long-ago golf tournament, nothing to do with either team. But I took some crap that day and it was deserved.

 

Screw it. I'll say I'd do it. It's a freakin spring game. They are playing.....themselves. Is there a bias on being an honary coach for the Red and not the White?
Screw it. Have a little fun in your work and lighten up. It's not like Nick Saban is calling you up on a 4th an 1 with a national championship on the line asking you what play to run. It's a scrimmage where the only people who are going to be reading your crappy story are the die hard team fans who already think your coverage of their team sucks anyway, so screw it.