NFL Opening Night: Steelers at Cheatriots

[fly]

Who do I hate less?

[fly]

"Steelers coaches were getting patriots radio broadcast in their headsets"

That's how they innovate. Good work.

[MDFAN]

Always liked the potential of both Lewis and Danny A.

[fly]

Yeah. Dion Lewis looks good.

[MDFAN]

Steelers and refs giving this game to the cheaters.

[fly]

Cheaters gonna cheat

[Jukin]

We need to hold a pool to predict the next way Belicheat cheats. I'm going with outright interception of the other team's radio communication.

[sfphillyfan]

Everyone used to stay "hate the patriots but Tom Brady is ok". Tom Brady is a cheater too! Fuck that guy.

[fly]

"You can't prove anything ... there's no advantage ... every team does it ..."
- signed every patriots fan ever

[Eagle60]

Here we go again!

Report: Steelers will file complaint about headset
Sep
11
9/11/2015 9:57:28 AM | More


Steelers coach Mike Tomlin blasted headset communications issues as stuff that "always" happens at Gillette Stadium. Tomlin wasn't subtle in making his point. He pointed the finger at the Patriots without blaming New England directly, saying the Steelers' coach-to-coach headset communications got washed out by the Patriots' flagship radio broadcast, Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports reports.

And Tomlin made sure to suggest this wasn't uncommon – "That's always the case," he said. He also didn't back down when given the opportunity, saying, "I said what I said."

Even Thursday, the league apparently made the situation worse when the problems began. Pittsburgh's staff was incensed that officials didn't force the Patriots to turn their own headsets off when the Steelers' problems were reported, a team source said. Instead, New England apparently maintained all communications while Pittsburgh's issues were being investigated. The source added that as late as the team leaving the stadium, the Steelers still hadn't been provided an answer for why the Patriots were allowed to continue their communications, rather than both simply being shut down to fix the issue. Pittsburgh will file a complaint with the league office on both fronts – the equipment failure and officials not turning off headsets on both sidelines, the source said.

[bird is da word]

I cannot understand how this occurs. It is 2015. I exclusively use a mobile phone on a network of millions of customers and have never once have I had a radio broadcast. Why would the headsets even work on similar frequencies as radio broadcasts? That is an FCC violation. There are dedicated band widths for certain types of communication devices. And the excuse from the NFL is just fancy wording. It really is just gibberish. "Stadium power infrastructure"...wtf does that mean and how does that effect the radio frequencies. Makes no sense

[Eagle60]

I cannot understand how this occurs. It is 2015. I exclusively use a mobile phone on a network of millions of customers and have never once have I had a radio broadcast. Why would the headsets even work on similar frequencies as radio broadcasts? That is an FCC violation. There are dedicated band widths for certain types of communication devices. And the excuse from the NFL is just fancy wording. It really is just gibberish. "Stadium power infrastructure"...wtf does that mean and how does that effect the radio frequencies. Makes no sense

Right. And it didn't effect the Patriot headsets. Unreal.

[rspurr]

I can see it now:
Goodell has suspended Belichick for the 2015 season for his involvement in Radiogate. Belichick to appeal.

[bird is da word]

NFL went to digital technology for headset communication in 2012. They use 268 million possible encryption codes to protect the security of the frequencies. The NFL is grossly incompetent or something is up. If a headset is paired with encryption codes how in the world does stadium power infrastructure create a situation where a FM or AM radio broadcast is playing in a secured encrypted communication device? How is the game broadcast getting into the Steelers network?

[sfphillyfan]

Right. And it didn't effect the Patriot headsets. Unreal.

PAtriots will claim it affected them as well. Prob during halftime and between quarters.