Alabama vs. Arkansas looked like ants because of ESPN's camera situation

Due to the bad weather in the Fayetteville area during Saturday's game between Alabama and Arkansas, ESPN pulled some cameramen out of Razorback Stadium. Network cameras have the best view in the field, creating an unusual TV viewing experience. The goal is to ensure the safety of cameramen.

Here is what a current camera angle looked like at the beginning of the game:

And here is what an additional point of Bama looked like:

When ESPN (or another network) broadcasts a match, it is common use for the television crew to have multiple cameras manned around the pitch and unmanned cameras elsewhere in the stadium. Usually, an operator uses at least some of the cameras hung high in a stadium, including the one around the 50-meter line near the press level, which the networks use as their main objective to film each part of the match.

ESPN's Keri Potts said:

Approximate transcription of the explanation of Adam Amin, the man of the game after match:

There is an ESPN protocol according to which, if there is lightning in the zone located at a distance of X miles, we must shoot down our cameramen in height, we must move the people from dangerous positions, so we think a lot well beforehand, and the ops producer is usually responsible for most if not all.

He added:

Our official partner is AccuWeather, so, depending on what the AccuWeather radar says, if there is a crush in any mileage range, our operations producer will say to our producer, hey, we have to break these people, we can not do it. that we have to get them out. So, the producer or the director will say to the cameramen, "Hey guys, we have a problem of time, we need you to jump from the camera and out.

Politics produces fun images of the game, but it is not a price to pay for people who play the game are not in danger.