Patriots At It Again

The latest addition of the reality TV show called The Real NFL Football Team in Boston has had another show in which the New England Patriots demonstrate how to make life difficult for the team they are playing.  This week's show as the coaching headsets of the Pittsburgh Steelers are fed the play by play of the New England Patriots radio broadcast by which they can't talk coach to coach about what plays or defenses they want to be in.

The NFL handles all the headsets as each team's is programmed into a frequency only that team has that day.  The other team has another frequency.  The Patriots  claimed they had to change their headsets too because they were having the same problem.  What a coverup.  There is no way that broadcast could be on two different frequencies unless someone was deliberately knowing the frequencies being used by the NFL. What would changing headsets do if the same frequency were in  those too.

Even though the score was 0-0 in first quarter Pittsburgh might have scored if everyone had of been knowing what plays were being called.  Deflate Gate,  going  into the other team's locker room stealing the scripted  plays that many teams use to start a game, filming the other teams hand signals to the team on the field or filming other teams practices.  It is a shame that a team that seems to be the best one of the best teams over the last 15 years has to rely on cheating because they don't feel they are good enough otherwise to win.

The NASCAR rule about "If you ain't cheating you ain't trying"must be the only team in NFL cheating or trying is New England.  They are really good at it as somehow or another they always use delay tactics much like Hillary Clinton is using on her E-Mail scandal.

You know Bill Belichek was never a winning coach until he came to New England.  He sounds to me just like the player using steroids.  I' m not good enough let me try this stuff to see if it will  help me.   Belichek said I'm not quite good enough coach unless I have every advantage I can get.

Now let's get by the the accusations at hand.  In the mid 1980 's We were doing a game at Bertie.  My location in the press box was at the left end and above us were the Bertie coaches. Once the game started we could hear the Bertie coaches through our headsets and some of the language was not presentable for radio broadcast.  Scared that this was getting out on the air we broke for commercials so I could talk with the board operator to see if this was over the air.  It was not.  It  Was however very distracting for me all during the game.  I am sure it was for the Pittsburgh coaches too.

Our problem was being so close to their transmission was bleeding into our headsets. This problem in New England the only answer is someone was deliberately programing the radio broadcast into the frequency of the headsets of Pittsburgh.  This would be the same thing the Germans used in WWII jamming frequencies in order not to be able to use radios.

If I was a fan of New England I would protest the actions of the owners the Kraft family, head coach Bill Bellichek  and any player if they know what is going on to let it continue.  All of these incidents taint whatever greatness New England has obtained over the last decade plus.

Here is another problem that our modern world has caused.  It is a shame that coaches make millions of dollars can't coach unless they have a headset.  Only in the last 40 years or so have headsets been available even to high school coaches.  We live in an electronic world where if the power goes off our life stops for all of us.  Remember Hurricane Floyd and how our lives changed for a week or a decade trying to recover having no power.  There will be a day when some country will invade us and all they have to do is cut off the power and we are useless.