I got an e-mail a couple hours ago from someone named Nicki over at TMZ with an attached video of Ryan Howard walking on the streets of Miami with his leopard-printed white girl Super Bowl weekend. I’m assuming they somehow stumbled upon my earlier post on Howard’s Miami excursion and figured I’d be interested in their video.  And while they were most certainly right, the ability for me to embed the video here on The Fightins came with a bunch of stipulations. So before you see the video, I must make sure I adhere to their strict video-posting mandate.

Here was the letter:

Your use of this clip is permitted starting today through February 15 , 2010. Any use thereafter must be cleared again with TMZ.

It may not be used as file footage unless permission is granted by TMZ.

In addition, the TMZ bug must remain onscreen and unobscured for the duration of the clip and verbal credit must be given to TMZ in the track or clip’s introduction. You as well as use on your website, provided a MANDATORY link to TMZ’s sports category (http://www.tmz.com/category/tmzsports/) is in the article. Please note the above rights are for within the US and Canada.

No international usage is granted on all releases with our exclusively owned photos/video.

Please confirm that you agree to these terms & conditions.

Alright — I’m allowed to post it today (check!), I’ve kept the TMZ bug unobscured for the duration of the clip (check!), alls I need now is the link (which, technically, I already did in the blockquote), verbal credit in the clip’s introduction, and to make sure no foreigners use it.

Well, I’m not trained well enough in the art of video-creating to put verbal credit before the clip, so to make up for that I’ll put the link in all caps, bolded, and blinking.

Now that the legalities are out of the way, enjoy this :35 second video of a TMZ cameraman begging Ryan Howard not to hit too many homers vs. the Dodgers this year and asking the big man what the Dodgers chances are in 2010 now that Matt Kemp is dating Rihanna.

See, it was totally worth it. AND IT IS VIA TMZ SPORTS.

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