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Steelers’ website makes strong claim about Headsetgate
NBC ^ | September 11, 2015, 8:15 AM EDT | Michael David Smith

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.


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KEYWORDS: headset; nfl; patriots; steelers
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Here we go again..........................
1 posted on 09/11/2015 6:12:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Perdogg

NFL Ping!..........................


2 posted on 09/11/2015 6:12:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

At this point I don’t care who did what. The NFL is a sad childish joke.


3 posted on 09/11/2015 6:17:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Visiting teams should hold up “I can’t breath” signs when in Denver’s “MILE HIGH STADIUM!”


4 posted on 09/11/2015 6:19:01 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Red Badger

All your base are belong to us!


5 posted on 09/11/2015 6:19:41 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


6 posted on 09/11/2015 6:19:48 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Red Badger

What a great advantage it is to be in the heads of your opponents. Even when it’s self-inflicted.

Sissy season.


7 posted on 09/11/2015 6:21:59 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Mi baol ach dom olcas mise)
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To: Red Badger
The NFL is in charge of the headsets! If the cry-baby Steelers have a gripe, it isn't even with the Pats.

Slow night for Brady....only four touchdowns. How nice of the Pats to let the Steelers have that third TD. <^..^>

8 posted on 09/11/2015 6:22:45 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

9 posted on 09/11/2015 6:23:26 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Mi baol ach dom olcas mise)
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To: Red Badger

Pats are 9-3 v. Pitt in their last 12 including last night. C’mon man ! It’s the leagues headset.


10 posted on 09/11/2015 6:26:51 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: Red Badger

Please call a whambulance, quickly.


11 posted on 09/11/2015 6:27:14 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Red Badger

What we have now is the WWNFL


12 posted on 09/11/2015 6:28:12 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: grania

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


13 posted on 09/11/2015 6:35:13 AM PDT by gakrak (“If you put the Fed Gov in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”)
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To: grania

Who can doubt, given the history of the Pats, that they would interfere and intercept the signal calling of the opposition?


14 posted on 09/11/2015 6:35:34 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Red Badger

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?


15 posted on 09/11/2015 6:36:26 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Yes Ma'am, I said I'd like three sides of bacon with my eggs. and bacon.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Love it! Your own creation?


16 posted on 09/11/2015 6:45:56 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

LOL no


17 posted on 09/11/2015 6:46:39 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Mi baol ach dom olcas mise)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

18 posted on 09/11/2015 6:47:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

The ghost of Bill Parcells is alive and well in Patriot-ville....


19 posted on 09/11/2015 6:49:05 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: major-pelham

Yep, I mean since the Pats are winning, who cares that they’re blatantly and unrepentantly cheating? I mean, they’re winners, right?


20 posted on 09/11/2015 6:49:34 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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