Why Not?

[shmessy]

This Sunday.

Patriots fans at the game could take cellphone videos of the Jets sideline and the D coaches hand signals and then the scoreboard (down and distance).

The put them up on Youtube.com.

The Patriots staff have every right to view the internet and look at Youtube.com as anyone else, no?

No one from the Patriots organization would have been involved or paid for the videotaping. It wouldn't be from the Patriots sideline.

This would, once and for all expose the ludicrousness of the "videotaping" rule.

 

[NEGoldenAge]

You, sir, are a rabble rouser. Good luck!

 

[SeanBruschi54]

I would like to see the people sitting behind the Jets bench bring fake video cameras to the game and point them at the Jets the entire time.

 

[sieglo]

Is there a rule against bringing real video cameras to the game?

 

[shmessy]

Is there a rule against bringing real video cameras to the game?

All I know is I go on Youtube frequently and there are cellphone vids galore from people at NFL games in the stands, MLB games, you name it.

The Spygate rule is ludicrous and anachronistic. It's like trying to regulate eating water with a fork.

The most notorious and expensive penalty (short of suspension/banishment) handed down in NFL history centers on it.

This would be a simple and lethal point on the subject.

 

[Keegs]

All I know is I go on Youtube frequently and there are cellphone vids galore from people at NFL games in the stands, MLB games, you name it.

The Spygate rule is ludicrous and anachronistic. It's like trying to regulate eating water with a fork.

The most notorious and expensive penalty (short of suspension/banishment) handed down in NFL history centers on it.

This would be a simple and lethal point on the subject.

i agree with what you put in this thread. It's stupid. This should be done, it would be great.

I think my dog is anachronistic.

 

[SeanBruschi54]

Is there a rule against bringing real video cameras to the game?

Yes.

They are banned.

 

[SoCal Bong]

I like this idea. I know digital cameras are allowed and most all of them have a video function as I usually record the player intro and a TD or 2 myself when I attend my one or two games per year.

It would probably be difficult to get enough people to do it that it would be noticeable (by the media or TV coverage) but if we could even get 10 or more videos on youtube next Monday morning I would love it!

I'd love to see no-huddle, empty backfield for the entire game, or at least until the Pats are up by 60. What is the record for the largest margin of victory anyway?

 

[SamBam39]

somebody do this so we can have som efun with this and see what spin people apply to it - how it's 'different' lol !!

 

[80Brown]

Yes.

They are banned.

Here it is from the Razor's website:

All video cameras are prohibited. Cameras that have detachable lenses are allowed, however, they may be checked to ensure they are what they appear to be.

http://www.gillettestadium.com/stadium_information/index.cfm?ac=prohibited_items

I had intended to bring my video camera this Sunday as I am behind the Jets bench....oh well.

 

[upstater1]

Bob Costas interviews Roger Goodell before the Chargers game at Foxboro:

Costas: "How do you plan on enforcing rules against taping opposing signals by high-tech gadgets? For instance, you now have binoculars with taping capability, and you can easily do this from the stands."

Goodell: "This wasn't a high-tech gadget, it was a big video camera, and it was out in the open."


My interpretation of what Goodell said: Not only are fans allowed to tape to their hearts content, but so are the Patriots. Just don't do it on the field.