In what might be the least heralded storyline (tonight, anyway) coming out of New England’s hard fought Super Bowl 41 1/2 victory, Pro Football Talk suggests Indianapolis has been pumping artificial crowd noise into the RCA Dome tannoy (mp3).
Since such gamesmanship is the sort of thing we’d usually associate with a reprobate like the Hooded Casanova (rather than the saintly Tony Dungy), I feel pretty comfortable accusing PFT of some sort of low-tech trickery. How difficult would it be to find audio from a Fushitsusha stadium gig and just dub Phil Simms’ voice over the top? I don’t have much experience with Garageband, but I’m sure it would be a snap for someone in the Sporting News a/v department.
Which of the following is the biggest surprise from Week 9?
a) the Detroit Lions are 6-2 at the midseason mark,
b) that Adrian Peterson really did see 5 guys drafted ahead of him.
c) Chargers DB Antonio Cromartie has more TD’s so far (3) than Seattle’s Shaun Alexander (2).
d) after starting 0-4, New Orleans won their 4th straight Sunday, a 41-24 victory at Jacksonvile, leaving the Saints with a genuine shot in the decidedly lousy NFC South.
I’ll take “C”, though it’s pretty wild that “A” was accomplished without a change of GM’s in Motown.
Well, the Saints would probably dominate the NFC West, but they’re in the slightly-less-lousy NFC South. They’ll still probably get the South, though.
S2N, next thing you’ll be telling me they’ve got an NFL franchise in Charlotte.
The Super Blow will finally feature a team from uptight, elitist New England versus a team from redneck, illiterate Dallas and if the wrong team wins, thousands will claim that they’re moving to Canada (and that this time, they’re serious).
GC – I would, but due to the quality of football being played by men in black and teal calling themselves the Panthers, I can only deduce that it is an unreasonable facsimile of an NFL franchise.