Well most of you are probably just waking up now after recovering from the Super Bowl.  I thought this would be a good time to pull out some of my old football pictures.  I used to photograph a lot of high school football for the local newspaper.  Every Friday night I was out in the dark cold night fighting to photograph some football.  If you’ve ever photographed high school sports, your lighting is horrible.  When I started shooting high school sports I was shooting with a Nikon D50 and the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR.  Not a bad combination, but the D50 only lets you push your ISO’s as 1600.  It also only has a frame rate of 2.5fps.  So there I was on the side line, I had 1 shot at the getting the image, while  the guys next to me are ripping away with higher frame rates.  When the D300 came out I invested in it, and carry it with me all the time.  I also shoot with the battery vertical hand-grip so I get the extra fps and can shoot comfortably in vertical.