Nusiance Noise Watch Continues

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."