http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/nfl_experts/post/Patriots-complain-about-crowd-noise?urn=nfl,52422

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"Patriots complain about crowd noise By Jason Cole Monday, Nov 5, 2007 12:13 pm EST The NFL is looking into allegations that the Indianapolis Colts piped in noise during the game Sunday between the Colts and the Patriots. The charge comes after Patriots President Jonathan Kraft became the latest NFL team executive to accuse the Colts of the distracting tactic that is against the rules. "We're aware of it and we're looking into it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday. "It may just be the TV feed from CBS, but we're checking it out." Observers at the game said there seemed to be a "skip" in the sound during the game Sunday, which the Patriots won 24-20. That might confirm the long-held suspicion among many people in the NFL that the Colts play loud crowd noise to help distract opponents when the other team is on offense. "We're aware of the accusations, but there has never been anything to substantiate it," Aiello said. Kraft approached NFL Vice President of Security Milt Ahlerich after Kraft and his parents, Patriots owners Bob and Myra Kraft, left the Patriots locker room after the game. Kraft was angry as he told Ahlerich the league needed to look into the allegation. Ahlerich is the same person who confiscated a videotape made by the Patriots during a game against the New York Jets in Week 2 that led to the Spygate controversy. In addition, New England quarterback Tom Brady also commented on how loud it was in the RCA Dome. "I don't know how you measure levels of being deaf, but we couldn't hear anything out there," Brady said. This is the latest in a string of incidents between the teams that have fueled the growing Colts-Pats rivalry. In the past, Colts General Manager Bill Polian has vehemently argued that the Patriots have bent the rules in terms of use of replay challenges and the pass interference rule."

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 1:23 PM. Reason : x]

11/5/2007 1:23:02 PM

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"Observers at the game said there seemed to be a "skip" in the sound during the game Sunday"

aha i heard that, but i figured it was just feedback on cbs's audio feed

it was kinda like brawrnbrawrnBRAWRNBRAWRNBRAWRNBRAWRNBRAWRN

11/5/2007 1:25:25 PM

there's a sound clip on the 850 blog where you can hear the piped in crowd noise going milli vanilli

11/5/2007 1:26:19 PM

11/5/2007 1:26:22 PM

I heard that too and thought it was the audio feed fucking up. I rewound the DVR just to make sure.

11/5/2007 1:28:02 PM

Crowd noise wasn't loud enough not to hear Welker scream "You fuckin suck!" after he made that catch that sealed the game.

11/5/2007 1:28:59 PM

I heard that skip and assumed it was piped in crowd noise. No football crowd stays that loud for the entire game. The colts have been accused of doing this several times before.

11/5/2007 1:42:12 PM

did it sound anything like "GOLD-BERG, GOLD-BERG"??

11/5/2007 1:50:44 PM

Colin Coward, on his radio show, just debunked these rumors after going back and listening to recordings from both the Patriots and Colts radio broadcasts. He acknowledged hearing what sounded like a CD skipping when it came to the crowd noise on TV but had his staff go and listen to the tapes of the radio broadcast in certain sections and they couldn't reproduce it. It was possibly something wrong with the CBS feed.

11/5/2007 1:51:38 PM

was just about to post ^

The Herd sez it's a farce

11/5/2007 1:59:07 PM

another classy thing....done by the patriots

11/5/2007 2:49:10 PM

but eleusis says it's true, and he knows everything!

11/5/2007 2:50:05 PM

debunking the skipping audio feed doesn't mean they aren't piping in crowd noise. Almost all of the head coaches in the NFL complain about the Colts doing that.

11/5/2007 2:53:07 PM

Cheaters:

Patriots
Colts

11/5/2007 2:55:07 PM

Cheaters
All NFL teams

Teams that need to cheat more
Dolphins
Rams

11/5/2007 2:58:04 PM

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"Cheaters All NFL teams Teams that need to cheat more Dolphins Rams"

Also, Gregg Easterbrook's head will explode if this is true.

11/5/2007 3:10:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQTcFQEMXo

11/5/2007 3:38:21 PM

and Colin Cowherd has NEVER been wrong about anything ever before.

and he's not a douchebag.

11/5/2007 3:43:43 PM

lol@ some of those youtube comments

UNBIASED AUDIO EXPERTS

ALL OF THEM

11/5/2007 3:45:38 PM

hey kettle? yeah this is the pot. you're black.

11/5/2007 3:46:28 PM

that's definitely CBS' problem, not actually in the stadium

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 3:47 PM. Reason : i've heard that happen during plenty of football games before]

11/5/2007 3:47:12 PM

Cowherd is an incredibly relevant and trustworthy source.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LulSsTbflGU

11/5/2007 4:07:24 PM

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.....thats funny...


III

11/5/2007 4:10:31 PM

sometimes Cowherd does a good job of stepping back and looking at the big picture

other times he's an elitist arrogant prick who thinks he's better than he is

11/5/2007 4:18:40 PM

No, you can pretty much disregard anything he says because on top of being a raging douchebag, he pronounces always.. "Allwez"

Fuck him.

11/5/2007 4:41:57 PM

ncsuftw1 listen to it again. you can hear the annoucers voice fine during the stutter

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/SPORTS03/71105043/1247/SPORTS

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 5:30 PM. Reason : a]

11/5/2007 5:28:28 PM

it's not like there's one microphone recording all the audio at once

11/5/2007 5:33:04 PM

Wake Forest does this on defense all the time.

The RCA dome can get plenty loud without piped in crowd noise. New England is pissed that they didn't get the chance to runup the score, and are probably realizing how lucky they are that Marvin Harrison missed the game...

11/5/2007 5:34:46 PM

apparently the radio broadcasts did not have the sound glitch, so I guess it was CBS

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 5:44 PM. Reason : a]

11/5/2007 5:35:19 PM

oh yeah, i totally heard that. i was wondering wtf it was. definitely sounds like a skipping cd

11/5/2007 5:39:17 PM

or an electric guitar in a radiohead song

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 5:42 PM. Reason : wrwrwrwrwrwrwrwrwrw]

11/5/2007 5:40:51 PM

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"New England is pissed that they didn't get the chance to runup the score, and are probably realizing how lucky they are that Marvin Harrison missed the game..."

11/5/2007 6:06:18 PM

# superbowls
Manning: 1
Brady: 3


# of supermodels impregnated
Manning: 0
Brady: 1

Brady FTW

11/5/2007 6:12:13 PM

^ a man who cares what a football player looks like ceases to be a man

11/5/2007 6:58:20 PM

I would imagine that money and fame had more to do with knocking up a supermodel than good looks did.

Unless you were referring to the look of 3 superbowl rings on his fingers with that statement.

11/5/2007 7:07:48 PM

that makes no sense... Manning has more money, and more fame

11/5/2007 7:12:36 PM

It makes perfect sense. Tom Brady got stuck with the ol keep-a-nigga baby because he has money and celebrity status. Just because Peyton has a bigger paycheck and some inheritance money from daddy doesn't mean that Peyton gets all the supermodel pussy and Brady gets none.

11/5/2007 7:20:21 PM

are you drunk?


thats my point, its not just the money and fame, its that Brady is a fancy lad and Peyton looks like Gomer Pyle... and its gay to give a rats ass what a football player looks like

11/5/2007 7:23:26 PM

talk to skokiaan... he brought it up, I was ending it

11/5/2007 7:25:08 PM

i wouldnt say manning has more fame.

11/5/2007 7:25:38 PM

sure he does... from commercials alone

11/5/2007 7:26:08 PM

i disagree. tom brady gets the tabloid press, so those even it out

haha im not taking anything away from manning but to say he is more famous is a little ridiculous

11/5/2007 7:27:14 PM

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=tom+brady&word2=peyton+manning


tom brady
3,820,000 results
peyton manning
1,640,000 results

And that is that

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 7:29 PM. Reason : .]

11/5/2007 7:28:39 PM

I am just saying if i had to pick between those two to just show their pic to random people and ask "who is this" I think more would recognize Manning. Much bigger name during college, been in the league longer, more commercials etc.


^ haha dont be stupid, Adrian Peterson "beats" Manning at googlefight

its so ridiculous how much people hate Manning on here, you will argue about anything involving him... I could say "Manning has more "n's" in his name than Tom Brady" .... "no way! not even close!"

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 7:35 PM. Reason : d]

11/5/2007 7:29:35 PM

That sounds like a challenge

11/5/2007 7:30:24 PM

You're assuming that looks are what allowed Brady to knock up a supermodel while Peyton's not getting any. Tom Brady was rich and available. Peyton's been married to Ashley for 6 years or so, and she seems rather attractive as well.

11/5/2007 7:34:18 PM

^yeah, she's not bad on further examination. I must give props to white professional athletes for their excellent taste in women -- even the most heinous trogdolytes pull babes.

11/5/2007 7:36:30 PM

^^ no, he was assuming that and I was making the point that taking into account the number of supermodels a player has knocked up is pretty much the gayest way to evaluate a player

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 7:37 PM. Reason : d]

11/5/2007 7:37:03 PM

The only thing gayer than a manning-hater is a manning-hater-hater

11/5/2007 7:40:04 PM

^ isnt that what you just did?

11/5/2007 7:41:48 PM