Posted on 09/11/2015 6:12:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
As he detailed problems his coaching staff had with the headset communications on Thursday night, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stopped short of coming right out and accusing the Patriots of cheating. But the Steelers’ website makes clear that the team believes the Patriots were in control of the audio problems the Steelers’ coaches were having.
An article on the Steelers’ website says that the audio communications problems started and stopped repeatedly — always stopping when a league official came down to the sideline to deal with the matter, then starting up again when the league official left the sideline area.
“This is the kind of stuff that happens to the visiting team in Gillette Stadium all the time,” the article said. “From the start of the game through the opening 14 minutes of the first quarter, the Steelers’ coaches’ headsets were receiving the Patriots Radio Network broadcast of the game. The broadcast was so loud that the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate, and the NFL rule is that if one team’s headsets are not working the other team is supposed to be forced to take their headsets off. It’s what the NFL calls the Equity Rule. Strangely enough, whenever an NFL representative proceeded to the New England sideline to shut down their headsets, the Steelers headsets cleared. Then as the representative walked away from the New England sideline, the Steelers’ headsets again started to receive the Patriots game broadcast.”
It’s impossible to read that as anything other than the Steelers accusing the Patriots of cheating. The allegation is published under the byline of Bob Labriola and is not presented as an official statement from the Steelers, but you can bet that a Steelers website writer wouldn’t write that if he thought the higher-ups in the organization disagreed with it.
The NFL says the headsets are provided by the league and the problems on Thursday night were a technical issue that got fixed early in the game. But that won’t stop those who are inclined to believe the Patriots are cheaters from thinking that the “technical issue” was caused by someone who works for the Patriots. That’s clearly what the Steelers think.
NFL Ping!..........................
At this point I don’t care who did what. The NFL is a sad childish joke.
Visiting teams should hold up “I can’t breath” signs when in Denver’s “MILE HIGH STADIUM!”
All your base are belong to us!
What would the coaches need headsets for? Is someone upstairs telling them how to do their job?
I don’t recall Vince Lombardi using headsets, and we all know his record as a coach.
What a great advantage it is to be in the heads of your opponents. Even when it’s self-inflicted.
Sissy season.
Slow night for Brady....only four touchdowns. How nice of the Pats to let the Steelers have that third TD. <^..^>
Pats are 9-3 v. Pitt in their last 12 including last night. C’mon man ! It’s the leagues headset.
Please call a whambulance, quickly.
What we have now is the WWNFL
Didn’t watch and will not watch NFL cheater football now or in the future. Brady is a slime-ball no better than Hitlary Clinton. Amen
Who can doubt, given the history of the Pats, that they would interfere and intercept the signal calling of the opposition?
Tomlin doesn’t have a backup plan if comms fail? What does he do if the stadium is as loud as a 747 taking off (Seattle)?
I mean come on, with all those NFL players they likely could have just used the gang symbols they’re accustomed to off the field.
And the Pats? WTF is Brady? Can someone do an alien autopsy on this guy and determine if he is actually a machine sent back from the future in search of Sara Conner?
Love it! Your own creation?
LOL no
The ghost of Bill Parcells is alive and well in Patriot-ville....
Yep, I mean since the Pats are winning, who cares that they’re blatantly and unrepentantly cheating? I mean, they’re winners, right?
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