NFL Forces Photographers to Wear Product Logos

Although I wrote about this on my FotoCounty blog, I thought it might be of passing interest to professional journalists. The National Football League is forcing photographers who are covering NFL games to wear vests with a couple of corporate logos on them. Apparently it's not unheard of in the sports world to turn photojournalists into billboards. Here's the link to what I wrote. If they can get away with that with photographers, why not require writers to also don special gear?