The Florida State football team is in Louisville preparing for its game Thursday night against Cardinals.
So where did the team choose to practice Wednesday?
In a public park. No bid deal, right?
Well then the team took a stroll after practice and walked past this:
#JameisWinston and #FSU making a pit stop on their way out after practice in #Louisville. pic.twitter.com/YpMUBTj8aA
— Chris Humphreys (@toferphotos) October 29, 2014
Yup, that sure is a Joe's Crab Shack. For any other team, it wouldn't mean all that much. But remember that time when FSU QB Jameis Winston got cited for shoplifting $32 worth of crab legs from a grocery store?
And that's what makes the above photo, courtesy of a photographer at Louisville's The Voice-Tribune, something special.
Louisville Courier-Journal reporter Adam Himmelsbach was out for a run when he saw the team practicing. Here's his take on how it all went down ... and yes, it is awesome:
There was quarterback Jameis Winston. There was coach Jimbo Fisher. And there were Florida State staff members, sort of guarding the perimeter so they wouldn't be disturbed. A security guard asked me to step off the edge of the grass and onto the sidewalk, and I did.
Then I took out my phone to take a picture, and two FSU staff members started freaking out.
"No pictures!"
"Put that away!"
I calmly told them that this was a public park, and that anyone can take pictures at a public park. They told me they had reserved the field. I said that I wasn't trying to use the field they had reserved. I was just taking a picture of it.
They told me to talk to the police, and then pointed me toward a Waterfront Park staff member, who was clearly not a policeman. I explained my situation to him, and he understood. He just asked that I stay back from the practice, and that was reasonable.
Thank you, Florida State. Thank you very much.
