What if Sports Cameramen Were Allowed to Get as Close to the Action as They Wanted?

What if sports cameramen were allowed to get onto the pitch with athletes during games? What if super-telephoto lenses and remote camera weren’t around to help deliver up-close views of the action? The video above offers an look at what being a cameraman in that alternate universe might look like.

Basically, it’d look something like covering a war zone.

The video is a short 1-minute advertisement for French cable TV channel Canal+. “Making sport bigger is our sport,” the spot says.

Too bad photographers and cameramen aren’t actually allowed onto fields, courts, and rinks as sports are being played. That’d be a pretty interesting sight to see…