Seedy Vibe Takes Over Watch Party as Sports Broadcast Lingers On Young Woman
For twenty-three uninterrupted seconds
When a local friend group gathered to watch the game of the week, no one was prepared for the level of unease that would be inflicted upon them by a cameraman 2,000 miles away.
Early in the game, in between plays, the broadcast cut to a young woman in the crowd. While crowd shots of fans typically last anywhere between 3 and 5 seconds, this one was different: the shot stayed on the woman for 23 uninterrupted seconds.
The friends in the room initially gave no mind to the leering eye of the camera, but as each second passed by, it became unavoidable.
“We were all having fun watching the game,” said one member of the friend group, “and then the cameraman sort of made us all complicit in his deviousness; his perversion.”
After the first 10 seconds of the unbroken shot of the woman, the color commentator piped in with a, "Nice to see a fan…"; an otherwise neutral comment that felt more and more sinister as the shot held on the woman.
When the broadcast finally returned to showing the game, the friends at the watch party were relieved; freed from the burden of the crude eye of the cameraman. However, the seasoned sports watchers within the group felt more of a melancholic blasé for they knew that while this was over for the moment, another time would come. This was a sports broadcast after all.