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ANYBODY WHO’S EVER COVERED high school football, or even college ball, knows what happens before every game. The coach gives the emotional speech—win one for the ol’ blue and gold, or green ‘n’ gray, fight, fight, fight, etc.—and then the team collapses into the middle in a jumping, yelling, throbbing scrum.

Trying to cover this with a camera in your hands is a one-way ticket to the hospital, as younger, more powerful guys clad in body armor slam into each other vertically, horizontally, and repeatedly. You can try a Hail Mary, holding your camera desperately overhead, but when you realize that most people ...

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