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Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy spoke with kids at a high school in Tampa on Thursday and apparently he was in a mood to foment him some controversy. And not in the usual "condemning o' the gays" way. Nope. He took a shot at the rival New England Patriots being embroiled in MattWalshGate. Nothing wrong with that. What was interesting was Dungy's willingness to gloss over accusations against his team.
Then someone asked if anything happened last season that he wished he could include in the book. What followed was vintage Dungy. He seized the opening. He brought up the videotaping scandal with the New England Patriots."We talk about how important it is to do things the right way and have integrity so that when you do win, people can never ask that question," he said. "That's the great thing that I'm happy about with our team.
"Yes, we won. But no one is really going to ask, 'Did they cheat? Did they do things the right way?' I think our record speaks for itself and if you're a true champion, that's the way you'd like it to be."
O RLY? I seem to be remember there being some questions about pumped-in crowd noise in the RCA Dome cropping up numerous times in the past few years, most notably after the regular season game against the Patriots last season.
He'd probably blame that on the gays though. Must they be so demonstrative? Tony Dungy's version of hell must be very loud.
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He is such a role model for children everywhere. He really inspires them to greatness.
/not going to say it
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: Well, consider my mind blown.
@J-No: What if his kid were gay and having trouble coming to terms with it and...
God damn, that's a sad story.
@Rock You Like An Iracane: Horrible story.
I don't think the Colts were cheating either. Otherwise they would have had no problem beating a Chargers team without both Marmalard and LDT...
@Rock You Like An Iracane: My mind was just blown as I returned to the NBA playoff betwixt Los Angeles's Lakers & Utah's Jazz & heard "Souljah Boy" playing over the SLC Arena's P.A.
/wants to see a Mormon missionary in full dress superman a ho
/alternately, would like to personally superman a female LDS
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: yeah, that seemed a bit...well...out of place.
DARYLE FUCKING WARD.
@notthequarterback:I just scared my dog with a very loud hot damn!
@notthequarterback: Indeed. :)
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: thanks for the vid.
How many in the crowd were wondering which album that song is off of?
Lamar Odom should get some League of Clutch commercials for the day.
mmmm...NBA playoff OT. Not as good as Stanley Cup playoff OT, but still good.
Sweep of a non-Pittsburgh Pirate team!
GET OUT THE BROOMS MOTHERFUCKERS!
Off to drink and enjoy. Back later.
@phillas: You know that vid ain't real, right? Paul & Gene are boys with Michael Bolton and all, but they'd never go THAT far.
Although this is what being boys with Micheal Bolton will produce:
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@She Blinded Me With Violence: yeah, I know it's not real. Just making a (bad) joke.
@phillas: @She Blinded Me With Violence: @phillas: So, is the video from a KISS cover-band, or entirely fake? I figured, after realizing the show was in Japan, that the boys were just trying to placate the strange enthusiasms of Nippon.
@She Blinded Me With Violence: Is that KISS w/o make-up?
"WE LOVE BOOZ - EVEN ON SUNDAY."
+1 to you, Jazz fan.
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: The video's from a KISS concert but the audio's from some other live performance. Rick Astley concert, I'd assume.
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: Yeah. The 80's version that was Gene, Paul, and two other guys doing their prerequisite 80's power ballad. Ace & Peter didn't come back until after they did their MTV Unplugged performance.
The reason for that comment was that Michael Bolton wrote the song in that video.
@She Blinded Me With Violence: @josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: yeah, that's what I recall. Good editing job though.
Trying to toggle between Lakers/Jazz and Giants/Phillies. And I missed Holm's dinger!
I ain't a Colts fan but they did not pump crowd noise in. They were cleared of that quite easily. I believe the sound came from NBC's production truck.
Taping and compiling cheat sheets on opponents signals, plays, etc. is much dirtier than raising crowd noise. Indy has to do that, unfortunately they dont have enough drunk massholes to pump it up for them.
Why all the animosity for Dungy. He's about to become the next president of these United States, isn't he?
Better to be shot by a straight player, than shot at and missed by a gay player
Seriously, that crowd noise thing was a non-issue. Never happened. The story was cleared up by CBS about 10 minutes after it came out.
Pumped in crowd noise? At the smallest indoor facility in the NFL? Guess what, the Colts sell the place out every home game and, last time I checked, are pretty damn good. Perhaps its just really freakin' loud in the Dome. Also, who made the accusation? The Patriots coaching staff. Consider the source. Pumped in crowd noise is ridiculous and has never been proven or even acknowledged as possible by the NFL.
Furthermore...MattWalshGate is not an unsubstantiated, far-fetched accusation like this crowd noise nonsense. The tapes exist, so the Patriots integrity is rightly questioned. For you to even insinuate that Tony Dungy, despite is preachiness, is the type of scumbag Bill Belichek is, or that the Colts organization has been as unethical as the Patriots, proves a sports blog may not be the right place for you to be writing, Christmas Ape.
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