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SKY CAMERA STARTS SPIN CYCLE
We haven't said anything about the fact that a camera ended up on the field during Sunday night's Saints-Seahawks game because, well, we simply didn't know that the thing had actually ended up on the field.
And that's a compliment (we think) to NBC, whose "show must go on" attitude apparently included suggesting to the guys in the booth that they shouldn't talk about a portion of the show that actually had gone on.
Even now, there's a difference of opinion as to what happened.
The Tacoma News Tribune reports that the camera "dropp[ed] out of the sky like some otherworldly flying saucer, nearly hitting [Matt] Hasselbeck in the head."
"I really don't know what to say," Hasselbeck said. "I just feel really fortunate it didn't hit me on top of the head."
Predictably, the company that operates the camera calls the incident a "controlled descent," according to Michael Hiestand of USA Today.
The NBC and the NFL are satisfied with Cablecam's explanation as to what happened.
In an unrelated development, each of the 32 teams on Monday made sure that they have purchased the "falling equipment on wires" endorsement for their workers' compensation policies.