The co-Owner of a Texas A&M sports website, TexAgs.com, posted video on the site late Saturday that he claimed was shot just before Nebraska assistant coach Carl Pelini damaged his camera while on the field after the Nebraska-A&M game at Kyle Field last night.
Brandon Jones shot and posted the video, which initially included the accompanying description on TexAgs.com:
At the conclusion of the game, I ran out onto the field with my video camera to capture the post celebrations of the players and coaches. When I reached approximately mid field (near the east hash marks), I came upon Carl Pelini verbally lashing a gentlemen on the field.
I directed my camera toward the commotion and captured the Nebraska coach as he began to walk away. As Carl turned, his eye caught my camera and the fact that I might have captured some of the exchange. What happened next was truly bazaar.
From about 10 feet away, he charged straight for me and for the camera that I was holding. By the time he reached me, I already had my camera by side. He grabbed the camera and I battled to maintain possession of it. Unable to gain possession of it, he broke the eye piece off in several pieces and threw them into the surrounding crowd. He then stormed off. The surrounding crowd helped me recover the pieces of my camera.
Also, there is no audio because, like an idiot, I forgot to put the shotgun mic back on the camera after coming down from the photo deck with 3 minutes remaining. As a result, I got zero audio.
Dirk Chatelain of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, who was at the game, reported of the confrontation:
Brandon Jones, a camera man and co-owner of TexAgs.com, spotted Carl yelling at someone as he walked off the field. Jones started filming Carl. Carl saw the camera about 10 feet away, approached Jones and grabbed the camera.
“There’s this awkward moment where we’re eye-to-eye with each other,” Jones told me. “And I say, ‘What are you doing?’”
Carl broke off the eye piece of the camera, threw it on the ground and “stormed off the field,” Jones said.
You can see some of the confrontation at TexAgs.com. Carl Pelini was unavailable for comment.
ESPN Reporter David Ubben was also at the game and reported a different version of what happened:
Carl Pelini did throw down a TexAgs.com camera, but no damage was done to camera. Detachable pieces came off.
The cameraman told Nebraska’s Rivals.com people what happened.
Interestingly, shortly after Ubben reported that Jones had told HuskersIllustrated.com that Pelini had not “broken” anything off the camera, the post on TexAgs.com detailing Jones’ description of the incident was removed.
The only text accompanying the video now on TexAgs.com says, “Watch this video and decide for yourself what happened to the TexAgs camera when Brandon took it onto the field to get video of the celebration after the Aggies win over the Cornhuskers.”
Why post that when the owner of the same website earlier supposedly described exactly what happened? And if Jones’ initial description of the incident, which indicated Pelini had damaged the camera, was true, why take it down?
Obviously Pelini should not have confronted a cameraman like that in any fashion, but by possibly exaggerating the incident involving the Nebraska assistant coach, Jones probably mitigated any possible punishment Pelini might’ve received from NU or the Big 12.
12:11 pm on November 21st, 2010
Im an Aggie, and trust me, when I say, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill, pal.
Good luck getting Pelini into a courtroom. Just pick up your little camera, and move on with your life. A day will come when TexAgs will need a soundbyte or two from a Pelini, be it Bo or Carl.
I think the real question is, what kinda parents would name their boys, Carl and Bo??
Gig em!!!!!!!!!!!!
12:22 pm on November 21st, 2010
The comment was removed because the site owners plan to fight this out legally in the courtroom. Trust me when I say that TexAgs is planning on taking full advantage of the laws.
12:40 pm on November 21st, 2010
Fight what out in a courtroom? A broken camera that may or may not have been dropped…sounds like a reimbursement issue and nothing more. That and the NU President is the past Dean at Nebraska Law…good luck in court over not much at all. Minor damages…not even up to a fender bender.
1:17 pm on November 21st, 2010
Whether the camera was damaged or not is not relevant. The point is Carl Pelini threw yet another Pelini temper tantrum and attacked the camera man/camera. The Pelinis are goons. NU fans deserve better
1:18 pm on November 21st, 2010
That’s assault and battery. If you prove either, then you can get much more than “reimbursement”.
The NU coaches are an embarrassment to NU and the Big 12. I’ve lost a lot of respect for NU after watching how the Pelinis treat their players and the media.
And I don’t know what the author of this article is talking about saying the story has been pulled down, because as of 12:15 Sunday November 21 Brandon’s account is on the second page of the thread with the video on the Texags pay board. Here is the link, scroll a little ways down and read WatchOle’s post: http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1738114&page=2&forum_id=25
You have to be a pay member of Texags to read the link, but it basically says that Carl attacked without being provoked.
1:21 pm on November 21st, 2010
The Pelini brothers are a joke that are not funny. These guys are out of control ala Woody Hays. For a proud program like Nebraska, they should fire these tools. They are an embarrassment.
1:27 pm on November 21st, 2010
NU deserves better than what the pelini meatheads have to offer.
1:44 pm on November 21st, 2010
Since when is David Ubben an expert on someone else’s camera?
The Pelini’s need an ass kicking and I can’t wait for the day when they yell (and spit) in one of their kids faces and they get the whipping they deserve.
2:25 pm on November 21st, 2010
Ubben’s wrong. The cameraman’s account of what happened is clearly stated on page two of the comments for the thread on TexAgs and has been since 0242 Sunday.
2:32 pm on November 21st, 2010
Carl can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Shame. He should go let off some steam with some guy’s wife.
7:52 pm on November 21st, 2010
Can I come back?
10:41 pm on November 21st, 2010
No Bill, you’re doing fine in NJ.
11:06 pm on November 21st, 2010
The description of the event can still be found in the premium section of TexAgs, so it’s not like the guys at TexAgs are changing their story. If I were to guess, they were probably asked to remove it from the public link. There were apparently others who witnessed this event, too, that corroborated Jones’ story. I’m also hearing rumors from a Husker friend of mine that Carl Pelini has been suspended and possibly fired, so whether or not he actually broke something, someone at Nebraska obviously feels he was in the wrong.
11:11 pm on November 21st, 2010
This cameraman was credentialed. Glad to see you taking Carl’s side and not blindly believing the details of a random website/media cameraman
1:28 am on November 22nd, 2010
I could’ve done that in After Effects. I’m just sayin…
3:16 am on November 22nd, 2010
Brandon Jones… Poor use of words…bizarre not bazaar. A bazaar is a shopping mart. Bizarre is an old TV show with John Byner.
3:34 am on November 22nd, 2010
This TexAgs guys is a real slimeball. He cuts out the sound so nobody get’s to hear him yelling at Husker players. he drags cables with him risking injury to players and then has the nerve to tell a half story on what happened. he isn’t even an accredited journalist for Christs sake.
4:01 am on November 22nd, 2010
Anything to sell memberships to his website!
10:22 am on November 22nd, 2010
What kind of homo goes around being the grammer police on the internet??
10:33 am on November 22nd, 2010
Grammar police! haha I thinks its top point out that its his PROFESSION to spell words correctly and apply proper usage. Just shows this guy is full of shi**
12:35 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Carl did not touch the camerman. Just another aggie trying to cheat. Too bad you can’t pay off the judge like you can the ref.
Sincerely, the worlds greatest football coach
12:58 pm on November 22nd, 2010
There are now pictures of the incident from another angle. There is no longer any doubt Carl attacked Brandon Jones and Carl is now flat-out lying about what happened.
This will all come out soon. The truth always does.
1:05 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Let’s talk about a lawsuit and inappropriate behavior, how about the Texas A&M player grabbing a Nebraska players genitals. That was pathetic, sickening and illegal, he should in jail. Is that the class and style of football A&M has? If so, I’ll take the Pelini’s any day. Instead the officials punish our player for being molested by the A&M pervert for defending himself. Unbelievable.
1:06 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Link to the photos:
http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1739612&forum_id=5
3:39 pm on November 22nd, 2010
If I was a Husker fan I wouldn’t want to believe it either but now they have photos to back the camera mans story. Not that the corns would believe it….
http://youtu.be/-4V5Xbrr-Rs
3:46 pm on November 22nd, 2010
To: Aaron Green’s mother
Do you actually want your kid to play for guys like this? This could tarnish there career.
Signed,
Cecil Newton
5:31 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Right, look what it did to Suh’s career. Most decorated player in NU history.
7:43 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Still photos tell a different story.
9:45 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Still photos tell the exact same story. Pelini attacked the cameraman for no apparent reasont. He even had his brother LIE about it today in his press conference, stating that Carl was going to assist a NU player to the locker room. Coach, there wasn’t a player inside the camera…and there are no players anywhere near the cameraman.
Poor losers, the bof’em.
10:35 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Spare me the whining A & Mers! Your “12 men” in stripes and genital-grabbing players are evidence enough to show your classiness! Pellini brothers are passionate and don’t back down to mediocre Texas teams who pay off the refs to get them “wins” against obviously superior Nebraska teams. Enjoy your short- lived “victory”. Can’t wait to play another Big “12″ (Texas) conference game in your state! Then your “victory “will be mereley a blip on our radar screen!
11:00 pm on November 22nd, 2010
What’s clear is there is a camera cord from this guys camera that is tripping people. Carl runs over there and gets the dummy to put his camera down. Might have broke a couple of pieces in the process.
Apparently the dummy that forgot his microphone has thin skin as well.
11:29 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Unfortunately for Pelini apologists, TexAgs main football board now has photos of Carl Pelini moving aggressively across a small distance to grab at, and yank away, a camera that did not belong to him. The evidence is pretty overwhelming, Ubben’s an idiot who knows precisely jack about any of it and is wrong about it being pulled down (it did come down from the free board but is still on the pay one).
The facts are in - now we will see if Nebraska maintains the moral high ground to thumb its nose at the Big XII as they depart…or if one of the classiest football programs in the nation has been irrevocably damaged by the Pelini brothers and a collective Big Red blind eye. If the latter, then good riddance!
11:44 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Oh, as for little brother Bo’s explanation that Carl was protecting a player. A bald lie…proven by the photographic evidence showing NO PLAYERS anywhere near the incident.
Lies, aggression and assault by a coach who was not being touched, nor even crowded. And you nitwits come at Mr. Jones with camera cables and grammar? What kind of new breed of stupid are you?
11:46 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Again, the player in question is #25. You see him clear as day in the video tripping all over the camera man’s wire. The same wire Carl looks right at and follows to the back of the camera.
The still photos show it all.
Remember
1. No audio from the cameraman. Either accidental or on purpose.
2. Not a single person backing him up in his account.
3. With cameras all around, including a camera man standing a few feet away (as seen on the video) noone records an incident.
Why? There was only a minor incident of a coach trying to get a dummy cameraman to quit making a hazard.
11:50 pm on November 22nd, 2010
Reminds of the time my father watched a kid across the street letting the air out of all the cars parked along the curb. When he went to the parents to tell them what he had seen, the parents call him a lier, there precious Bobby would never do anything like that!
The Nebraska fans of Bo and Carl are just like those parents.
12:13 am on November 23rd, 2010
#25 is five yards away. I will admit he’s the closest NU player to the action - 15 feet away.
Carl Pelini turns directly to the camera, then AT the camera, and never looks down, indicating that he’s noticed a hazard of a cable.
And, oh no - there is NO CABLE running from Brandon’s camera. The photos are absolute proof.
So tell me, Nems, you going to admit that you’re just plain wrong because you’ve been PROVEN beyond a shadow of a doubt. Or are you going to go down swinging, indicating that you’re nothing more than an apologist for a couple of lying thugs?
12:24 am on November 23rd, 2010
The photo’s? Seriously. You think you could see cables in that photo? Those are some pretty grainy pictures. If that’s your rebuttal try again.
Watch the video. You see it all clear as day. #25 is walking on the cables. Pelini almost tripped over the same cables. His eyes follow the cable.
Another thing the photos show is nobody reacting to anything. In fact, there is another cameraman maybe 15 feet away that does nothing.
So yeah, I think the Aggie Cameraman, who is part of an Aggie fan site is not telling the whole story.
12:35 am on November 23rd, 2010
That’s what I thought. Please tell me you’re not actually a Nebraska fan because you are intentionally ignoring incontrovertible evidence…the resolution on those photos are clear enough to prove you wrong. Fans like you are as much a part of the problem as Carl Pelini, and diametrically opposite of nearly every NU fan I’ve ever met in our short time together. Guys like you want to be correct, not right.
I’m done with you - since you’ve decided that being a fool is the better choice, you’re a waste of my time. C ya.
1:00 am on November 23rd, 2010
Again, the VIDEO shows the cable. Shows #25 tripping over them clear as day.
You can’t see the cable in the pictures. Why? Well. Look at the first picture. Then look at the rest. Do you have any idea how much those are blown up?
It’s cool. The VIDEO says it all.
1:14 am on November 23rd, 2010
http://www.huskerlocker.com/forums/the-locker-room-2/zapruder-analysis-of-carl-pelini-camera-incident-1575
Here’s another person with the same account I saw.
It even has pictures since those are so important to you.
12:52 pm on November 23rd, 2010
He was probably telling him to put the camera at waist level to catch more a&m molesters, cause if it’s happened during the game, it was probably happening after the game!
3:30 pm on November 23rd, 2010
Bo’s real name is Mark moron
3:55 pm on November 23rd, 2010
It’s over. Pelini finally apologized to the truth and not this cooked up crap. Even said that Bo’s explanation was “without all the facts.” Not sure I believe that part.
But Brandon has received the apology, and confirmation of his exact account, and the brothers Pelini have taken their lumps. NU fans are understandably protective of their coaches.
It’s over…time to move on. I’d love the chance at NU in the championship but a LOT of chips need to fall that just don’t fall in CFB under the subjective poll system. As such, know this…
…I will be pulling for NU to win vs. CU and to take the title. Huskers have always been my second favorite Big XII team. Now that the dust has settled a bit, go get ‘em Big Red.
7:31 pm on November 23rd, 2010
Carl Pellini has reportedly admitted to the press that he was in fact “trying to keep a reporter from recording the scene,” A scene that he created, by the way. Apparently his first story was a complete fabrication. The question is who did the fabrication Carl or Bo. At least least Carl, has issued a formal apology. Perhaps the rest of you NU coolaid drinkers might want to do the same for your blind defense of his conduct..
10:41 pm on November 23rd, 2010
http://huskerextra.com/sports/football/article_df5b6066-f770-11df-bc16-001cc4c002e0.html
Pelini Officially admits fault. Great reporting Brooks.