(USATODAY)The Pittsburgh Steelers may have lost to the New England Patriots on Thursday night, but it seems like they're ready to keep b...
(USATODAY)The Pittsburgh Steelers may have lost to the New England Patriots on Thursday night, but it seems like they're ready to keep battling.
As the controversy over the Steelers' garbled headset communications at Gillette Stadium simmers, the team's website suggested the situation had rather shady circumstances beyond the fact that it occurred in the home of the constantly scrutinized Patriots.
"This is the kind of stuff that happens to the visiting team in Gillette Stadium all the time. From the start of the game through the opening 14 minutes of the first quarter, the Steelers’ coaches’ headsets were receiving the Patriots Radio Network broadcast of the game. The broadcast was so loud that the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate, and the NFL rule is that if one team’s headsets are not working the other team is supposed to be forced to take their headsets off. It’s what the NFL calls the Equity Rule," wrote Bob Labriola of steelers.com before dropping more.
"Strangely enough, whenever an NFL representative proceeded to the New England sideline to shut down their headsets, the Steelers headsets cleared. Then as the representative walked away from the New England sideline, the Steelers’ headsets again started to receive the Patriots game broadcast."
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was clearly peeved after the game saying communication outages at Gillette are "always the case."
According to a Yahoo! report, the Steelers plan to file a complaint with the NFL for the failure of the headsets and for the league's failure to turn off New England's communications while Pittsburgh was experiencing its intermittent outages.
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