11.05.07
If You Replay A Colts Game Backwards, You’ll Clearly Hear The Phrase “Art Donovan Is Dead”
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.