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A fine ass-ignment
September 11, 2007It's not often I get paid to go trolling for fellas.
But that was the case three weeks ago when I hit the Texas Ranch Roundup to work on a story that was unofficially dubbed inside the office as "Hot Cowboys."
I had conned my bosses into letting me do a story about why women find cowboys so irresistible.
Slow news day, eh?
While I embraced the subject matter (figuratively, not literally), my photographer didn't quite have the same enthusiasm.
For some reason, he wasn't keen on scoping out cowboy butts and taking pictures of sexy boys in Wranglers.
He hated the assignment so much, in fact, that I can't even tell you his name and he didn't want to put his name on the bottom of the pictures.
But we made a heck of a team.
The key picture I was hunting for that morning as we scoped out the MPEC was the stereotypical photo of cowboys leaning on a fence, their Wrangler tags a shining.
As we walked around the MPEC Exhibit Hall, I figured it would be easy to find two or three or four men who fit the bill.
The photographer, who shall remain nameless, per our agreement, got into the hunt, even though he won't admit it.
"What about that one?" he'd point in the distance until I could get a good look.
"What about those two?" he said as we sized up the playing field.
We looked for several hours and were running out of time.
Finally, I found four men, all Wrangler clad.
I explained to them what I was looking for.
They were skeptical. And I won't say they were a last resort, but even they were quick to admit they weren't as young or as hot as all of us would have liked.
"Honey, I don't think my ass qualifies," one joked.
I told them I didn't care. I just needed four backsides.
After a quick session of "I'll do it if he does it," the four fellas, me and no-name photog headed out to the pens and got the shot, which was on Sunday's front page.
The lengths I go to in the name of journalism.
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Lucky girl...I'm jealous!! I wondered why there was no photog credit....I was going to email him my appreciation for the fine photo...please pass on the thanks for me!
