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Report: Patriots' broadcast bleeds into Steelers' coaching headsets during opener
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Posted on 09/10/2015 7:04:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin

...Pittsburgh Steelers coaches were getting the Patriots' broadcast over their headsets during Thursday night's game. The Patriots' coach-to-coach headsets were shut off intermittently, the NFL told Tafoya.

NFL head of security Jeff Miller was shown on camera while Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were discussing the mishap.

Blake Jones, NFL director of football operations, went down to the field to help out with the headsets.

The league described the reception problem as "intermittent" and it was believed to be resolved early in the second quarter. Because it was not a complete system failure, New England's coaches were not required to shut down their headsets during the repairs.

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To: acapesket

What position do you play?


41 posted on 09/10/2015 9:09:33 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Lucille Ball


42 posted on 09/10/2015 9:17:57 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: UCANSEE2

What’s the frequency, Kenneth?


43 posted on 09/10/2015 9:47:03 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: BenLurkin

The NFL is in charge of all the headphones....if anyone cares about reality:)


44 posted on 09/10/2015 9:53:09 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: BenLurkin
...Pittsburgh Steelers coaches were getting the Patriots' broadcast over their headsets during Thursday night's game.

Gee, shenanigans involving the Pats - how surprising.
45 posted on 09/10/2015 10:09:14 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BenLurkin

Same thing happened just before the end of the last Super Bowl.


46 posted on 09/10/2015 10:28:02 PM PDT by proudpapa (Scott Walker - 2016)
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To: freedumb2003

Gronk is a REAL tight end—not only a terrific, clutch performer as a primary go-to receiver, but he actually blocks like tight ends are supposed to! Power, efficiency, utility, toughness.

I’m so disgusted with the Antonio Gates and Jimmy Graham-”just throw me the ball” style of modern so-called TEs who really bring dishonor to the real TEs. They’re nothing but big WRs in tight (1 of 4 palys maybe) and almost never for blocking. They couldn’t even block a Neon Deion-type if they had to (or even my mother for that matter!) And I do realize coaches who utilize guys like Gates aren’t looking for blocking skills. But they should not be called tight ends.

Fantastic receivers, yeah, but NOT TEs! Gronk is throwback tough, a real TE, and he deserves being called a TE.


47 posted on 09/10/2015 11:06:54 PM PDT by Husker8877
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To: surroundedbyblue

A cheater who is rewarded.. Because no law applies to them. It wasn’t just the coaches because Big Ben had problems with his initially... I even mentioned it to my DH.


48 posted on 09/11/2015 12:48:40 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: BenLurkin; surroundedbyblue; tumblindice; AnotherUnixGeek; momincombatboots

Yeah. That’s why the the Steelers lost, because the NFL supplied and maintained system failed.

Couldn’t have been the Steelers abysmal special teams.

Couldn’t have been the Steelers inept clock management.

Couldn’t have been the Steelers play calling by stalling their own drive early in the game by trying a trick play that didn’t trick anyone, when they should have kept doing what worked.

Couldn’t have been the Steelers mouthy defense that talked all week about putting bodies on Gronkowski, then repeatedly let him release freely without anyone touching him, if they even bothered to line anyone up on him at all.

No, couldn’t be any of that. Even their whiny, angry coach, like the STUPID and IGNORANT no-loads who focus on this as evidence of wrongdoing, buys into blaming the Patriots instead of looking at his own INEPT performance as a coach.

Maybe their coach, like everyone else who focuses on this, should pull their heads out of their backsides and open their eyes. But that would be FAR too much to ask, since it is preferable to many to be INFANTILE and whine and blame others for their own shortcomings.


49 posted on 09/11/2015 2:46:18 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: acapesket

Suggesting that some of these mental midgets get a reality grip is asking a bit much.

Probably how most of them run their own lives, blaming their own deficiencies on others.

I say let them stew in their stupidity and ignorance.


50 posted on 09/11/2015 2:49:14 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: surroundedbyblue
Once a cheater always a cheater

Actually, the Steelers were the ones listening to the Patriots. The Steelers were cheating.

51 posted on 09/11/2015 4:14:24 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: BenLurkin
Wonder when these intermittent interferences occurred.When Pitt. had possession?
52 posted on 09/11/2015 4:34:12 AM PDT by mware
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To: BenLurkin

Right before the game began I noticed the coaches on Pitts side pointing towards their headsets and another guy shrugging his shoulders.


53 posted on 09/11/2015 4:36:32 AM PDT by mware
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To: mware

Interferences occurred when the NFL had control of everything. But as we all know, mental midgets like to point at everything else except their own shortcomings or lack of knowledge.

Including the NFL, and especially in this case, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the legions of morons who can’t get their tinfoil hats on correctly.


54 posted on 09/11/2015 5:28:26 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: sparklite2

Steeler Cheatin


55 posted on 09/11/2015 5:29:48 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: BenLurkin

56 posted on 09/11/2015 5:55:20 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow (Cleganebowl 2016 - GET HYPE!)
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To: rlmorel

In the spirit of fairness, if one of the teams had communication problems not of their own doing, both teams should have forgone headsets until the problem was corrected.


57 posted on 09/11/2015 6:00:37 AM PDT by mware
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To: ItsOurTimeNow; rlmorel

The Steelers were going to lose that game anyway, barring an exceptional effort on their part. But this is just the most recent instance of Patriots shenanigans.

So everyone please be honest (at least in the privacy of your own thoughts) and recognize that — once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times (and more!) it is enemy action.

the Patriots cheat. To paraphrase the insurance commercial “It’s what they do”


58 posted on 09/11/2015 6:40:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
This wouldn't be a big deal except that Foxboro is notorious for "technical issues" with headsets... for visiting teams only. Cheaters gotta cheat, I guess. Especially as long as the NFL turns a mostly blind eye to it.
59 posted on 09/11/2015 6:45:38 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: SunTzuWu
Actually, the Steelers were the ones listening to the Patriots. The Steelers were cheating.

The Steelers were getting the Patriot's radio broadcast, as in the one for people to listen to on their radios, not the coach-to-coach transmissions.

60 posted on 09/11/2015 6:46:46 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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