Re: CBS accepts blame foe audio
From the article:
It is not the first time the Colts have been accused of enhancing sound at the RCA Dome.
Two seasons ago, the team issued a statement denying speculation on ESPN Radio that they had piped in sound during a Monday night game against Pittsburgh, which the Colts won 26-7.
"We are doing nothing wrong," senior executive vice president Pete Ward told The Star at the time. "We've got the loudest stadium in the league, with the fans naturally providing that sound.''
I have gotten very good at listening to explanations that avoid direct statements, and especially explanations that begin, "I have done nothing wrong..."
I would feel a lot better if Ward just came out and said, "We do not amplify crowd noise," or, "We do not pipe in crowd noise."
He could be pumping in amplified crowd noise by what he said.
Yeah, the stadium is loud. Yeah, and the crowd noise, naturally, comes form the crowd - where else. (We just amplify what the crowd provides. It helps our team a lot. Why do you think last year we were 8-0 at home and 4-4 on the road?)
Sorry, I cannot trust weasel-worded sentences. It smacks too much of trying to deny they cranked up the heat by saying, "There are a lot of bodies putting out a lot of heat in the RCA Dome." Yeah there was, but that also evades the question. The body heat was just not vented as usual, and that combined with hot air escaping from the lips of Pete Ward and Bill Polian, was part of Polian's quest for an unfair advantage. But that's okay. If the Colts hadn't run the heat up, the Pats wouldn't have had the off-season they had and have the team they now have.
Thanks, Bill Polian.
