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Before the likes of Warner, Irsay, Marshal Faulk this would come under the general heading of "Competitive Advantage"... now they call it cheating.
They would go in the backroom and tell them to knock it off, and warn them maybe give them a quite slap..
Now it all becomes some kind of major scandal, and an investigation will ensue.. all the while Goodell will speak of integrity of the league, while leaking out snippets of info to the press..
One would think that if any team was going to get hit for piping in crowd noise it would be the dolts.Manning: 0 SB titles since NoiseCDgate...
Irsay and Goodell have a rock solid connection.One would think that if any team was going to get hit for piping in crowd noise it would be the dolts.
I don't see goodell as a crack head kind of guy, irsay yeah goodell no. He looks more of a scotch drinker, but you never know.Irsay and Goodell have a rock solid connection.
Crack is wack
This is surprising, Here i was thinking that PATS are the only team that "cheats" and the other 31 teams were full of saints,priests,monks,gurus etc..
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So, its appears as if 'Noisegate' (to give it its appropriately inane media title) is back on the menu.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/24/combine-chatter-suggests-stiff-penalty-for-falcons/
What evidence, if any, do we have that anything untoward has happened here?
My faith in the NFL to hold a reasonable investigation is approximately zero so what do we think the outcome will be?
How commonplace is 'piping in noise' ?- Indianapolis has a reputation (mostly fan based) on being culprits for this as well.
Is the piping in of noise specifically prohibited by the NFL rulebook? What about those gigantic screens/speakers that we see at Sports venues? What ones are allowed?
Funny, Bill Polian said that the league wouldn't punish the Falcon's harshly because they viewed piping in crowd noise as having no competitive advantage. Of course that never made any sense because why even make it a rule and why would people break the rule if it had no competitive advantage (see how I can turn around the Patriots' hater's argument on Spygate on them).
I always thought this was far bigger than deflategate. You see in stadiums with extremely loud crowd noise like Seattle and KC where the crowd can create false starts and force teams to call time outs because they can't get the play in on time. Other than gross hyperbole by former players on ESPN, we never got a clear indication that one or two PSI less than than regulation makes any competitive advantage.