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Originally Posted by squiggs96
To clear up a misnomer, that was never corrected by Collinsworth or Michaels, the NFL runs the communication devices. It has nothing to do with the home team.
Although you missed his green text, you also missed a few more things. The headsets that weren't working properly were the ones used to communicate between coaches. They were still able to send the plays into the offence and defence. Once Tomlin informed the refs of the problem, the Patriots headsets to communicate between coaches were shut off as well. Both teams were on equal playing field here. As I mentioned, this was an NFL issue, not a Patriots issue.
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Nope, they weren't.
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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 told Yahoo Sports. 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.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source-...065304894.html
Edit: Still - that is a League issue - not a Patriots one. Still is HORRIBLE optics.
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