NEW YORK (AP) -- Suzanne Smith likes to assign a cameraperson to shoot the teams running onto the field when she directs NFL games for CBS.
Typically those images might be used as a backdrop when the commentators welcome viewers or the broadcast comes back from commercial. But for last month's matchup between the Steelers and Rams in St. Louis, they proved particularly illuminating.
As Greg Gumbel, the play-by-play announcer who works with Smith, puts it: ''Who expects the field to get set on fire?''
Sparks from the pyrotechnics that accompany player introductions started the small blaze, which wound up delaying the game's start by nearly 30 minutes.