Indianapolis Colts busted for piping noise in the RCA Dome?
According to Mike Holley on Boston sports radio station WEEI the National Football League is investigating whether canned crowd noise was piped into the RCA Dome during Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts. An apparent technical glitch in the fourth quarter may have exposed the shenanigans that would violate league rules. More to follow.
Patriots won the game 24-20 and are 9-0 on the season while the loser Colts are 7-1 and are probably by now in a fetal position (I sure hope the Patriots have a nice video-recording of that scene).
Update: One example here. The same phenomenon could be heard on Tom Brady’s 55-yard bomb to Randy Moss.
What should this be called? Audiogate? Pipegate? Noisegte? PeterKingisshockedshockedgate?
Jonathan Kraft reportedly complained to an NFL security representative about the crowd noise after the game.
What’s that you say, Dungy? A sad day?
Update: Newsday reports the NFL is dismissing it as a CBS audio problem.
November 6 update: TV-station WBZ in Boston brings renewed life to the story:
WBZ Photojournalist Bryan Foley says an unidentified RCA Dome security guard told him Sunday that the Colts do enhance the crowd noise.
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The noise was so bad he asked a security guard about it.
“I asked him, ‘Do you go home at night with a headache? Because it’s early in the first quarter and my head is already hurting.’”
“He said, ‘I don�t know if you know this, but they actually pick up the crowd noise and pump it back through the P.A. (public address system)’”
WBZ Audio Engineer Charlie Lucci said it wouldn�t be difficult to enhance the crowd noise.
An unnamed security guard doesn’t sound like the best of sources but it should be good enough to keep Noisegate stirring.
