Bengals Linebacker Vontaze Burfict Threw A Perfectly Good Camera To The Ground For No Reason

It’s hard to imagine a more unenviable job than a cameraman in sports. Sure, sitting on the sidelines and getting a front row seat to games seems like it’s cool, but you have to operate a camera the entire time and any time you get attention, it’s normally because you have just been trucked by a professional athlete who couldn’t control his momentum and he just crashed into you.

A poor camera guy was subjected to such exposure during Thursday night’s game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns. After Browns QB Johnny Manziel airmailed a pass, a pair of Bengals defenders – linebacker Vontaze Burfict and safety Reggie Nelson – couldn’t slow themselves down in time and hopped up onto the platform where a cameraman was set up. Nelson managed to avoid him, but Burfict ran right into the camera. Apparently, Burfict didn’t appreciate that the cameraman was doing his job right in the vicinity where he was running, so he tossed the camera aside and threw it to the ground.

Someone ended up helping out the cameraman, and poor Nelson was kind of trapped, because a dang camera fell on the ground right behind him while he was up against a wall.

(Via Ron Clements)