I’m curious to see what comes of this issue. Phil Simms noted at some point in the broadcast yesterday that the Colts fans raised the level at the appropriate times and lowered it appropriately, and suggested they had been "trained well."
The home team cannot post signs like “NOISE,” but apparently the squeaky clean Colts don’t have a problem with piping in artificial crowd noise…unless, of course, you call a defective disk a problem (why wouldn’t they use an MP3?? Now THAT’S Mickey Mouse).
Check THIS OUT or a nice video link is available on youtube.
The NFL wrote:
The home club does not have the prerogative to decide if such sound hampers signal calling. While spontaneous crowd noises may be beyond immediate control, noise of any kind (music, horns, gongs, drums, etc.) that is under club control must cease when the play clock (40 or 25 second) is running and the visiting team is in possession of the ball. Flagrant attempts by cheerleaders, mascots or the public-address system to encourage crowd noise for the purpose of disrupting the visiting team's offense while the play clock is running is prohibited.
I wonder how come that little clip didn't wind up on the Indy Star. So Bill Polian and the Colts aren't really "GOOD" in the "Good vs. Evil" thing I guess; stay classy Indianapolis.
Also interesting that I can only find 1 mention of it on mainstream media. Although about an hour after having written that sentence (I've been working on this for a while), I’m seeing it everywhere: Yahoo, MSNBC…boy that’s sweet.
Now the fact is, the Fake Noise doesn’t really matter, but it also means that all that “good vs. evil” crap should probably stop. I don’t want to hear all kinds of stuff like the Colts should be fined, lose a draft pick, whatever. It’s just the Colts organization isn’t “winning with integrity” as some of the signs at the game would suggest. It means you can't say stuff like this and be taken seriously, or if you are going to say that stuff, you'd better be squeaky clean. It just gives ammo to jokers like me with my own little blog to poke at your morality balloon with a needle.
It’s really hard to feign moral outrage about this one, but it is quite easy to smirk about. (That's me, smirking).
I don’t want to hear anything about Harrison being gimpy. I didn’t hear that stuff when the Colts were up by 10 in the 4th quarter; I didn’t hear about it for the first 50 minutes. Then to hear Manning make that okay in postgame…it made me crazy. Here is the true story of the game, and it comes from Baltimore of all places:
David Steele wrote:
Most important, though, the Clash of the Titans at the RCA Dome proved this: If the Patriots and their offense are in the process of making history, it is not because they score gratuitous touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the likes of the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins.
It's because they can stare down a 20-10 deficit, a rabid crowd, a dwindling clock, the defending Super Bowl champs and their own clumsy, inefficient selves and not blink. They can take a game from you in a heartbeat.
Mr. Steele also notes what I noted, “The Colts had two healthy wide receivers most of the game (no Marvin Harrison at all, no Anthony Gonzalez for most of it) and a backup protecting Peyton Manning's blind side, but for 50 minutes they made it work.” No complaining then. That’s just being sore.
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