Was it CBS or not? We thought we'd heard the end of the complaints about noise piped into the PA system within the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, but WBZ-TV is reporting that what seemed like an audio discrepancy during Sunday's Colts/Patriots game was no fluke - and a venue security guard told WBZ photojournalist Bryan Foley that it was intentional.
According to WBZ-TV's story, Foley noticed that the sound of the crowd was painfully loud whenever the Pats had the ball on Sunday, but the place seemed nearly silent when Peyton Manning was trying to work the Indy offense. Foley decided to ask a security guard about the headache-inducing noise, and the guard responded with the magic words:
"I don’t know if you know this, but they actually pick up the crowd noise and pump it back through the P.A."
Foley did not identify the guard - we don't even know if he asked the guy his name - but strongly maintains that the guard confirmed the trick Indy has been accused of multiple times by multiple teams since the Steelers first complained in November 2005.
The Colts organization's statements denying the use of piped in sounds are becoming more and more indignant as people continue to question the explanation that CBS's production team made the sound error. After the official league ruling that the Colts did nothing wrong, an Indianapolis statement said, "We trust this will put an end to the ridiculous and unfounded accusations that the Colts artificially enhanced crowd noise at the RCA Dome in any way."
It's reached the point where we just really want to know: did they or didn't they?
Image of Peyton Manning by flickr user zpinkster. We like to imagine the caption: "When the ball is going THIS way during this half, you crank it to 11. When it's going the other way, you bring it down to 3."
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this is ridiculous. Has anyone seen the interview w/the man claiming this? he says... in the first quarter it was so loud he made some remark to a security guard about it. Then the security guards immediate response is "oh you didnt know, they pump the crowd noise through the pa". Ok, lets just assume this is exactly how it happened. According to what this guy is saying... he then had 3 1/2 quarters (including half time) to communicate this information to a patriots team member whom could have had this investigated. and confirmed or denied.
OK, ok.. so he didn't tell anyone. Why did he wait until AFTER it was reported that kraft complained about the noise to come forth with this story? This guy is clearly a patriots fan.... yet, he's kept this all a secrete until now. Too many big holes in this story.
I don't know why this is an issue. The Pats won and won't play there again.
I'm more focused on Don Shula's total toolness.
Someone tell Shula to drop the Snowplow Game. He's still talking about it according to bostondirtdogs.com.