{"id":2700,"date":"2008-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/meet-the-mannings-art-chase-at-duke-university\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:32:14","slug":"meet-the-mannings-art-chase-at-duke-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/meet-the-mannings-art-chase-at-duke-university\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the Mannings<\/h2>\n

Art Chase at Duke University sent me an ominous instant message of just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153call my cell\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I thought at first I was in trouble, but Art asked me if I could photograph some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153guests\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that would be with the new Duke Football coach, David Cutcliffe. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t jumping at the chance to do it, because the shoot was going to be at 8pm Saturday, just one hour before the 9pm tip-off for the Duke vs. North Carolina basketball game that I was also photographing. Usually its a stressful game to set-up for and shoot, and I thought I would be a basket case around 8pm. But Art has helped me a lot in the past so I said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. As for who the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153guests\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were, I assumed it was rich alumni and donors and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give it a second thought.<\/p>\n

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Before every game there is a press meal, and during the meal, Bob Rosato from sports illustrated mentioned that both Eli and Peyton Manning played for coach Cutcliff and that one of them had been spotted. I may not have gone to Duke, but I can put two and two together. So I walk over to Art and ask him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Does one of the guests that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m photographing tonight happen to have the same first name as I do?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He laughed, said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and I said I was now an even bigger basket case now.In the end, it was fine. I was even able to slip to the other side of the lens and get a picture of me with the Manning brothers. They are pretty nice guys. It was a room full of only a few people, so it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like they had to put on a show. I think it reflected who they really are \u00e2\u20ac\u201d pretty down to earth.Also walking around was a guy whose voice seemed very familiar, but I could not place it. I turned around to see that Matthew McConaughey was also there in the coach\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. So man, I never thought I would be meeting the Manning brothers and Matthew McConaughey before this game. Crazy how things happen. (btw, Matthew, also a very nice guy)<\/p>\n

Side note, if you are a photographer, and sports information director asks you to take a photo of an event, but is vague about who will be there, take the assignment. Two years ago Bruce Winkworth at NC State asked me to photograph an event at a NC State baseball game. He said there would be a special guest there, but could not say who it would be. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do the event though as I was booked for another assignment. I found out later that the guest was none other than Alex Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the Mannings Art Chase at Duke University sent me an ominous instant message of just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153call my cell\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I thought at first I was in trouble, but Art asked me if I could photograph some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153guests\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that would be with the new Duke Football coach, David Cutcliffe. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}