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McElwee recalls

planting
microphone on Dallas
Cowboys safety Bill Bates for an
NFL Films feature story a few
years ago. "I was shooting Bates
during the first half and he was
running around like a madman,"
a

wireless

McElwee recalls. "He

was

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But [then-head coach] Jimmy
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at halftime and said, 'What the

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hell's with Bates?' His assistant
coach told him he was wearing our

microphone. Johnson said, 'What
do you mean he's got a micro¬
phone on? Tell him to take the
[expletive] thing off!'"
Although Johnson had
previously approved the wiring,
Bates

was

told to take the micro¬

phone off, forcing McElwee and a
soundman to record what they
could with a handheld '"shotgun
mike" for the rest of the game.
"At the end of the second

half, my soundman and I walked
over to the sideline, and I started

shooting footage of Bates,"
"Jimmy Johnson
saw me, walked over,
got right in
my face and said, 'Will you please
allow my football team to play this
football game?' I just said, 'Sure,
coach. No problem.' I couldn't be¬
lieve I was actually going to have a

McElwee says.

direct result

how this football

going to play that day!
But those sorts of things happen all
team

was

the time."

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