Anyone else notice excessive piped-in noise at Buffalo?

archstanton543 said:

They had to blast it to keep this guy awake:

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The announcers thought he was sleeping too. i figured it was some type of prayer/ritual he did. Either way, we know who the football gods favor.

RelocatedPatFan said:

The announcers thought he was sleeping too. i figured it was some type of prayer/ritual he did. Either way, we know who the football gods favor.

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I think he was really really hammered and on the verge of passing out. I don't think it was a ritual.

archstanton543 said:

I think he was really really hammered and on the verge of passing out. I don't think it was a ritual.

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This is Buffalo. This is a fat slob in Buffalo. He went hard at the tailgate and wore himself out chanting 'We want Brady'. By the time the initial burst of energy wore off he was toast. Kinda like his favorite football team.

archstanton543 said:

"LOAD"?

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I was very excited we were winning. I cleaned it up.

Wow I missed this story.......and I'm outraged......really.

Here is my problem and its about Florio and the way he framed the story. He COULD have presented a narrative that presented the Pats positively by showing the extreme hypocrisy by the League, their owners, and their fans. He could have pointed out the injustice and unfairness of the venom toward the Pats for the crime of excellence and not much more. He could have made this story as an example of the kind of REAL "cheating" that goes on all the time, but with proof, and NOT with the innuendos and lies we've seen with the Pats. He could have pointed out that nothing will happen because this was Buffalo, and the rest of the power elite owners simply don't care. That they are out to get the Pats and no one

But instead, while detailing compelling evidence against the Bills, he chose to just point out the irony of the crime and to imply that the Pats were guilty of a similar one on opening night.....DESPITE all the evidence to the contrary. So in the end all was his is just cruel manipulation of the facts with an nati-Pats agenda.

I kept hearing an obnoxious train horn. It was clearly a simulated train horn and not one from a nearby train. It was played over and over and over.

I didn't know it was allowed up until 20 seconds on the play clock or when the Center was over the ball.....I thought that was considered piped in noise........would have to review game film to see when that Klaxon noise happened.

I was in the stadium. I didn't notice the horns going late but that's normal noise so I didn't pick up it was late. But I did hear the PA announcer cheering over the PA at one point. It seemed like he probably did it by accident but coupled with this and now I am not so sure.

I was at the stadium too and did not notice anything that seemed out-of-bounds with stadium sounds.

Maybe something happened, but the majority of the noise was legit fan-generated ruckus. Those metal seats make lots of noise when fans bang on them.

Whenever the Pats huddled they blew the train whistle over and over and over. It was quite noticable and very annoying to the home viewers. The network should complain!

BlueThunder said:

I didn't know it was allowed up until 20 seconds on the play clock or when the Center was over the ball.....I thought that was considered piped in noise........would have to review game film to see when that Klaxon noise happened.

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If the Bills are in violation the Pats need to demand that they be prosecuted with the same heavy hand that Cameraplacementgate was, or vacate the Pats' penalties and return the draft picks, along with a public apology.

Integrity matters!

Eh, that's stuff that would bother a soft coach like Tomlin.

patrickscribe said:

I was at the stadium too and did not notice anything that seemed out-of-bounds with stadium sounds.

Maybe something happened, but the majority of the noise was legit fan-generated ruckus. Those metal seats make lots of noise when fans bang on them.

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So...how was it being there?

fourhour said:

"It may not matter if the Patriots complain. By league rule, “[a]ll clubs must submit a recording of the video board feed paired with the PA system audio by the Wednesday following a home game.” So if the Bills went too far when the Patriots had the ball, the NFL easily will be able to figure it out."

Yeah, right!

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There seems to be a pretty massive loophole in that system: The rule Florio quotes doesn't say how many recordings a team must submit or when they have to be taken. Let's say Buffalo was planning to do this. They know they need to submit a sample to the league, so the first time they play the train horn, they play it an an acceptable level and record it. They now have their legal sample. They can crank up the volume after that and the "evidence" the league will have will show no violation.

If this stuff is important, the the NFL should open the checkbook and have league employees at every game monitoring this sort of thing independent of the teams. Yes, that will cost money, but consider how much the two domestic violence experts (and their staff) are being paid so the league can properly address 2 or 3 incidents per year. Compare that expenditure with knowing you have auditors at every stadium, every week.

Guess the Bills have 4 asterisks now for their Super Bowl losses.

RelocatedPatFan said:

The announcers thought he was sleeping too. i figured it was some type of prayer/ritual he did. Either way, we know who the football gods favor.

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If that ritual include a lot of alcohol and food. Then sure, he performed a ritual.

I did not, I was too busy watching the patriots win.

Browns fans noticed the Bills doing the same thing last year.

Evidence of systematic cheating yadda yadda...

I noticed that. It was crazy and seems like a violation

There is now an asterisk next to the Bills' lack of success.