Colts - Did they Cheat?

[Haui]

So......we have heard all the excuses....but did the Colts cheat or not?

Mind you I am a Colts fan....but if this is cheating.....then man oh man....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...-funny-way-of-cheering

 

[tomywishbone]

Those cheatin' Colts!

 

[Jeeebus]

No. I have decided.

 

[Haui]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus
No. I have decided.

Explain?

 

[se7en]

Who really cares they lost.

And with a 2 game lead now the Pats will likely have homefield in Jan. So bundle up Indy it'll be a cold title game.

 

[kalster]

nice, pats use video to cheat, colts use audio,

 

[Sphexi]

I thought it was kind of funny how often the commentators would say things like "The people here keep up the energy and noise all game long" and "The crowd is well trained" and stuff like that whenever they'd get loud during the Pat offensive plays. I didn't personally hear that skipping part, I was watching but not paying that close attention to it. Very subtle way of cheating if that's what it was though, but still technically against the rules.

 

[TecHNooB]

What the crap... fake crowd noise?

 

[Chryso]

So if you cheat and lose then it is ok?
Cheating is cheating.
Heads should roll.

 

[Haui]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I thought it was kind of funny how often the commentators would say things like "The people here keep up the energy and noise all game long" and "The crowd is well trained" and stuff like that whenever they'd get loud during the Pat offensive plays. I didn't personally hear that skipping part, I was watching but not paying that close attention to it. Very subtle way of cheating if that's what it was though, but still technically against the rules.

So what do you think will happen?

 

[waggy]

most likely a glitch in the guys DVR or such.

if it was true you would be hearing about it on the news. i watched the game and nobody heard it.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: Haui

So what do you think will happen?

Honestly? Nothing.

 

[dudeman007]

So you're telling me they play the cheer of the audience over the loudspeakers are football games?

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: waggy
most likely a glitch in the guys DVR or such.

if it was true you would be hearing about it on the news. i watched the game and nobody heard it.

Whether it's a broadcasting glitch or really something more nefarious is a fair question, but there's more than one source with the same audio problem.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: waggy
most likely a glitch in the guys DVR or such.

if it was true you would be hearing about it on the news. i watched the game and nobody heard it.

I did but I thought it was the network screwing up.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: dudeman007
So you're telling me they play the cheer of the audience over the loudspeakers are football games?

Pretty stupid claim IMHO. If they were gonna do it, they would just amplify the existing crowd noise (which is what they were accused of doing during the Colts-Steelers AFC championship game a few years back)

 

[Deeko]

I've heard rumors of this happening a lot this year - not just at the Colts but league wide. Its all hearsay at this point. Interesting, I wonder why its such a hot topic this season...if teams actually DO fake crowd noise, it would be a strange coincidence that they all started doing it in 2007.

 

[Inferno0032]

I Heard it when i was watching. I think it was the TV stations audio echoing. Not from the speakers.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Haui

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I thought it was kind of funny how often the commentators would say things like "The people here keep up the energy and noise all game long" and "The crowd is well trained" and stuff like that whenever they'd get loud during the Pat offensive plays. I didn't personally hear that skipping part, I was watching but not paying that close attention to it. Very subtle way of cheating if that's what it was though, but still technically against the rules.

So what do you think will happen?

Honestly I don't know. The NFL is already looking into it, I don't know how hard it would be to try and track down if it was a local thing, or if it was a problem with CBS' broadcast, but people in the stadium were reporting it as well, not just on the TV broadcast.

Originally posted by: waggy
most likely a glitch in the guys DVR or such.

if it was true you would be hearing about it on the news. i watched the game and nobody heard it.

It is on the news, it's already been reported to the NFL, they're already investigating. It can't be his DVR, how could it screw up the background audio, but with the commentator sounding perfectly fine? They don't stream all of the individual sound channels like that, everything would've been screwed up then. It could definitely be a problem with CBS though, with that one stream before it got mixed into the broadcast, or it could be something their mics picked up from the dome itself.

 

[dudeman007]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: dudeman007
So you're telling me they play the cheer of the audience over the loudspeakers are football games?

Pretty stupid claim IMHO. If they were gonna do it, they would just amplify the existing crowd noise (which is what they were accused of doing during the Colts-Steelers AFC championship game a few years back)

That's pretty retarded. Regardless, I don't think that it was some cd skipping, probably the audio taken from the sound inside of the stadium had some type of glitch.

 

[spidey07]

CBS has been having tons of difficulty with their HD audio the last few weeks. I heard it...

sounded exactly like feedback or a processing problem in the broadcast.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: dudeman007
So you're telling me they play the cheer of the audience over the loudspeakers are football games?

Pretty stupid claim IMHO. If they were gonna do it, they would just amplify the existing crowd noise (which is what they were accused of doing during the Colts-Steelers AFC championship game a few years back)

Wouldn't you get nasty feedback then? Unless they put some sort of delay into it, like record noise, then replay it 5 minutes later, then just kept turning the volume up and down as needed.

The other thing I just thought of, whenever the Pats would be making a big play, the crowd would be cheering, not just making noise, but actual cheering, as if the dome was full of Pats fans. I thought that was kind of odd too, why would people in Indy be cheering like that for the opposing team?

 

[Balt]

If it was a problem with CBS I don't understand how you could go from hearing so much crowd noise to hearing almost no crowd noise but still being able to hear other ambient sounds like the stadium's PA.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: Haui

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I thought it was kind of funny how often the commentators would say things like "The people here keep up the energy and noise all game long" and "The crowd is well trained" and stuff like that whenever they'd get loud during the Pat offensive plays. I didn't personally hear that skipping part, I was watching but not paying that close attention to it. Very subtle way of cheating if that's what it was though, but still technically against the rules.

So what do you think will happen?

Honestly I don't know. The NFL is already looking into it, I don't know how hard it would be to try and track down if it was a local thing, or if it was a problem with CBS' broadcast, but people in the stadium were reporting it as well, not just on the TV broadcast.

Originally posted by: waggy
most likely a glitch in the guys DVR or such.

if it was true you would be hearing about it on the news. i watched the game and nobody heard it.

It is on the news, it's already been reported to the NFL, they're already investigating. It can't be his DVR, how could it screw up the background audio, but with the commentator sounding perfectly fine? They don't stream all of the individual sound channels like that, everything would've been screwed up then. It could definitely be a problem with CBS though, with that one stream before it got mixed into the broadcast, or it could be something their mics picked up from the dome itself.

as i said it didn't happen when we were watching it. so who knows what it was.

UNTIL it is confirmed they cheated i will give them the benifit of the doubt. to many things could be go wrong.

 

[goog40]

Doesn't this happen in basketball too?