BYU vs. UNLV Football

October 25, 2006

Assignment: BYU vs. UNLV football Saturday was a perfect day for football at BYU’s LaVell Edwards Stadium. Beautiful weather, beautiful light, that 4,000 calorie pre-game meal with a caffeine-free Coke. Too bad the game itself was such a clunker. A handful of photographers before the game told me it would be a blowout. And it came to pass, BYU won 52-7. (Sorry for the joke.) The problem with blowouts is that there’s very little challenge and very little emotion. Even though BYU scored a billion touchdowns, there wasn’t really a good celebration shot. There was one great diving touchdown pass, but I’d made the bad choice and had the wrong lens up when it happened. To make things worse, the guy next to me got it. And later I noticed that the guy sitting next to me in the press box got it as well. I think I’m through writing about this game. Here are the highlights: