Anyone else notice excessive piped-in noise at Buffalo?

DaBruinz · Sep 21, 2015

Silver Blue&Red said:
I'm used to hearing a lot of noise at some stadiums. But it really seemed over the top and longer than should be allowed. It was LOAD on TV!!. These are the things that Kraft has to complain about. A perfect time to start playing the leagues own game. Make a big stink over any minor infraction. IMO http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ve-gone-too-far-with-pre-play-stadium-sounds/

Need to redo the title.. Doesn't make sense.. Should read something like:
Bills playing sounds incorrectly?
Bills violating league rules on Sound???

DaBruinz · Sep 21, 2015

Koma said:
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.

Umm.. The Audio that has to be submitted is the AUDIO from the ENTIRE game. You can't just mix and match..

Triumph · Sep 21, 2015

Nobody circles the trains like the Buffalo Bills.

SaCaCh · Sep 21, 2015

So far I watched the first half and part of the second half. Didn't happen in the first half. With 11:20 to go in the 3rd we ran up to the line and hiked it as the horn was going off. We were called for a false start.

Silver Blue&Red · Sep 21, 2015

DaBruinz said:
Need to redo the title.. Doesn't make sense.. Should read something like:
Bills playing sounds incorrectly?
Bills violating league rules on Sound???

Yea. Damn auto spell or something. I hate posting from my phone. I don't know how to change title. Meant to say "Anyone else notice excessive noise at Bills?".... "Excessive being the operative word. More than the permitted amount."

Peachhead · Sep 21, 2015

In the old wild west trains and buffalo didn't coexist very well. Back then, trains killed buffalo by the thousands. One of the reasons old trains had that sloped pointy thing on the front was to push buffalo the trains killed off the tracks. So a team associated with Buffalo using a train sound would be like the PA system of a team called the Custers playing the sound of a crapload of angry indians.

rochrist · Sep 21, 2015

Nunchucks said:
I don't see how this is less egregious than allegedly removing .2 PSI from a football.

Of course you don't. You aren't charged with defending the integrity of the game and the honor of The Shield.

Dr Pain · Sep 21, 2015

Darn it, I just went through the second half and other than that one in the 3rd where there was a Patriots off side as a result, I didn't catch any others. $100k fine and a 5th it is.

Bruins29 · Sep 21, 2015

I guess the pro shop should sell plastic train horns when the Bills come to town.

Or, better yet our fanbase has better things to do than waste time with crap like this. We actually have stuff going on in our lives and dont live in a place where the happiness in our lives depends on how well our crappy, cheating football team does.

E1Downey · Sep 21, 2015

These things happen week in and week out during the season. Teams will naturally seek an advantage no matter how big or little. Teams get caught, fined, and the season goes on.

But when it's the patriots involved, and it's something they didnt even do like the headsets, everything stops and the screams of "INTEGRITY OF THE GAME" begin. Its so silly and sad at the same time.

slackerjack · Sep 21, 2015

Triumph said:
Nobody circles the ~~trains~~ drain like the Buffalo Bills.

FIFY

JPsPats · Sep 21, 2015

The bills literally cheated, and still got smacked. I had to turn my tv down and throughout the game you could see Edelman have to run up to Brady to get the call because the horn was so loud.

BradyBranch39 · Sep 21, 2015

Meanwhile, the Ravens...

BlueThunder · Sep 21, 2015

The train horn probably distracted the Bills Defense....

"WTF WAS THAT ??????????????? "

VrabelJr · Sep 21, 2015

BlueThunder said:
The train horn probably distracted the Bills Defense....

"WTF WAS THAT ??????????????? "

IS THAT A TRAIN COMING?!

Nope, just Tom Brady about to tear dat ass.

patfanken · Sep 21, 2015

I'm just wondering if there was a SINGLE media outlet that picked this story up, if only to point out the hypocrisy of it all.

Is there ONE mediot with the nuts to ask the league: "What did the official disc reveal about the obviously pumped in noise on Sunday's game" (and then give the times it was most obvious).

The 2nd question is to ask: "Why isn't the league taking this as seriously as football air pressure"?"

The 3rd question is to ask "why does it seem like the League's integrity enforcement is selective:?."

Drop the mic and leave the stage.

Wordsmyth · Sep 21, 2015

Triumph said:
Nobody circles the trains like the Buffalo Bills.

The drain?

MrNathanDrake · Sep 21, 2015

$10 fine for the Bills.

IcyPatriot · Sep 21, 2015

apparently some or many Bill's fans hate that train ... want it gone.

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/181197-trainhorngate/

TheBostonStraggler · Sep 22, 2015

IcyPatriot said:
apparently some or many Bill's fans hate that train ... want it gone.

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/181197-trainhorngate/

Read the full page of that forum link. Talk about your polar opposite of the Jet forum. There were some actual intelligent posts that actually looked at the nuances. I'm not only pleasantly surprised by it but it further confirms a suspicion of mine about Jet posters. While the average NFL fan may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, when it comes to Jet fan posters they makes the average NFL fan look like Einstein in comparison.

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