"No offense to North Texas, but Marshall trailing 14-7 at intermission to the Mean Green on the scoreboard and in virtually every other category is simply unacceptable."
"The wheels have come off, folks, the wheels have come off."
I was just about to post this exact quote along with his Sex Offender Registry photo. Great stuff.
You would think that a business that, I don't know, uses photographs regularly as a primary means of sharing information would have the ability to:
1) have the quality of photography equipment to take a higher end image?
and
2) Have a higher standard of how their employees are displayed in photo?
This image being used in unacceptable!
No, no, no.
Having a terrible mugshot as a reporter is a point of pride.
The "mugshot" photo placed on my columns and my press pass at my first newspaper job was taken at 5:45 a.m. on a Monday the morning after we lost to Southern Miss in the GMAC Bowl. I had driven two hours in a snow storm to get to my first day of work. I looked tired, unshaven, incoherent. They just lined me up against a wall and shined a bright flash in my eyes before 6 a.m. on three hours sleep.
They used that photo for the next seven years, sometimes in promotional materials. It was once blown up on a Power Point presentation to 10 feet tall when I won an award. I enjoyed every second of that mugshot being used. It was hilarious.
It became a running gag between all of us in the newsroom to see how different we could look over time from our company photos. My editor was using a photo from 12 years before and had grown a beard. I won the contest when I lost 100 pounds and started wearing Buddy Holly glasses.
Last Edited: 10/13/2016 10:42:03 AM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)