Bill Belichick has drawn the ire of Colts owner Jim Irsay.
When the Chiefs were playing the Saints, Belichick, along with Peyton and Eli Manning, had a customary guest role on the first half of ESPN's “Manning Cast,” a simulcast of ESPN's “Monday Night Football.”
Payton gave Belichick a perfect opportunity to revisit the old Colts-Patriots rivalry when he asked the former head coach about how he prepares his team to deal with intense crowd noise.
“I'll tell you what Peyton, the crowd noise there wasn't as bad as when you guys were playing music at the RCA Dome,” Belichick replied. “And when the music stopped and the crowd noise flew, we knew when you were pumping the music.”
Years later, Irsay remains sensitive about the innuendo.
“Please note…the 'piped-in crowd noise' myth is 1000% fictional,” Colts owner says I wrote to X.
“And that ‘skip’ was televised. But you get it…the visiting team couldn't believe that 60,000 people could make such deafening noise in an intimate domed stadium. Credit to Colts fans. ”
The RCA Dome, where the Colts played their games before Lucas Oil Stadium, was a notoriously loud venue.
The first suspicions arose during a 2007 regular season game, when Tom Brady was standing in line for a photo when he noticed an apparent “skip” in the deafening noise at his home. viewers noticed.
At the time, the Patriots had just been subject to Spygate by the NFL for illegally videotaping the Jets' signals, and asked the league to investigate the situation.
“CBS told the NFL that any unusual audio that fans may have heard during the Patriots-Colts telecast was the result of tape feedback within a CBS production truck and was separate from the CBS broadcast. “There is,” a league spokesperson said. said at the time.
“The network and the league maintained that this sound was unrelated to any sound inside the stadium and could not be heard inside the stadium.”
