What a difference a year makes...

One year ago today, I was standing on the sideline of a Byrd Explorer football game shooting video for movie I was working on for the team. I was standing too close and should have moved. My oldest son Calven Rosenthal (#83) had a great run and I had the camera directed at him. What I didn't notice were the 3 defenders closing on him that ultimately pushed him out of bounds, straight in to me. The results were a lacerated forehead, a torn ACL and two fracture teeth. It took surgery to repair my leg and stitches to repair my forehead. I've been putting the teeth off.

One year later, I have 90% usage of my leg back thanks to aggressive therapy. I don't remember the pain so much as the inconvenience of not being able to walk for 2 months and all of the therapy.

Many of you may have seen this video on You Tube, but what is available here is a much higher resolution version of the incident. At some point I will post the whole movie that I filmed and edited for the 2007 Tulsa City Champion Byrd Explorers.

Calven's High School Football Debut'

From a quality standpoint, this picture is awful. The cool part is, this is Calven Rosenthal making his High School football debut. He was able to suit up and play with the Memorial Chargers in last nights game against the Edison Eagles, Memorial won 22-12!

Calven on the 40

Here is a picture of Calven from the 2007 Byrd Middle School season. Will Smith (45) handed off to Calven, who you see running down the sideline.

Photo credit Brad Rosenthal

Calven - Byrd Football 2007 Season

This is a picture of my youngest son Calven Rosenthal. He is now 14 years old and plays for the Memorial High School football team. This picture was taken last year when he played for Byrd Middle School. I was the team photographer and I shot stills and videos. I pieced all of the images together into a nice video that highlighted the Byrd 2007 football season (I will post the whole video sometime in the future).

Being a sideline photographer is dangerous. Don't believe me? Click this link to see YouTube video of Calven tackling me and destroying my knee!

Photo and video credit Brad Rosenthal