Post by Guvmintcheeze on Jul 30, 2015 18:50:49 GMT
Falcons WR Roddy White says he was mistaken for man punished for crowd noise
While discussing Tom Brady and the deflation of footballs, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White told a story about his own team's punishment for violating NFL rules.
The Falcons lost next year's fifth-round draft pick and received a $350,000 fine for illegally piping crowd noise into the Georgia Dome during the past two seasons. The league laid the blame on the Falcons' former director of marketing, who was coincidentally also named Roddy White.
And yes, some folks out there thought the player White was involved.
"People started calling my phone asking me if I was pumping in crowd noise," the veteran receiver said. "And I was like, 'How am I going to pump crowd noise into the stadium when I’m on the field?' I was like, 'It ain’t me.'
"I had no idea we were even doing that [piping in noise]. I don’t particularly think the dome is a loud place, anyway. I mean, it’s loud during certain games, but it’s not consistent. Not to say it’s bad. It’s not [bad] to the point where I think we should have been doing that. That cost somebody their job."
Falcons president Rich McKay was suspended from the league's competition committee as a result of the violation. McKay has not been reinstated, but commissioner Roger Goodell and Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent are expected to discuss the matter soon.
Regarding Brady and his four-game suspension for his role in deflating footballs before last year's AFC Championship Game, White maintained the same stance he expressed on Twitter back in May.
"I don’t understand how you’re going to suspend somebody four games for saying you deflated a football," White said. "That doesn’t make sense. We’ve got too much other stuff in the league that’s going on, man. But I just feel like everybody is trying to get back at [the Patriots] because they’re always finding ways to win. This is a way that you can hurt them."
White said he is not overlooking the whole integrity-of-the-game aspect.
"At the end of the day, if you do something wrong, you deserve to be punished," White said. "If you literally did something wrong. Deflated footballs? That’s reaching so bad. You are really reaching to try and find anything with that."
While discussing Tom Brady and the deflation of footballs, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White told a story about his own team's punishment for violating NFL rules.
The Falcons lost next year's fifth-round draft pick and received a $350,000 fine for illegally piping crowd noise into the Georgia Dome during the past two seasons. The league laid the blame on the Falcons' former director of marketing, who was coincidentally also named Roddy White.
And yes, some folks out there thought the player White was involved.
"People started calling my phone asking me if I was pumping in crowd noise," the veteran receiver said. "And I was like, 'How am I going to pump crowd noise into the stadium when I’m on the field?' I was like, 'It ain’t me.'
"I had no idea we were even doing that [piping in noise]. I don’t particularly think the dome is a loud place, anyway. I mean, it’s loud during certain games, but it’s not consistent. Not to say it’s bad. It’s not [bad] to the point where I think we should have been doing that. That cost somebody their job."
Falcons president Rich McKay was suspended from the league's competition committee as a result of the violation. McKay has not been reinstated, but commissioner Roger Goodell and Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent are expected to discuss the matter soon.
Regarding Brady and his four-game suspension for his role in deflating footballs before last year's AFC Championship Game, White maintained the same stance he expressed on Twitter back in May.
"I don’t understand how you’re going to suspend somebody four games for saying you deflated a football," White said. "That doesn’t make sense. We’ve got too much other stuff in the league that’s going on, man. But I just feel like everybody is trying to get back at [the Patriots] because they’re always finding ways to win. This is a way that you can hurt them."
White said he is not overlooking the whole integrity-of-the-game aspect.
"At the end of the day, if you do something wrong, you deserve to be punished," White said. "If you literally did something wrong. Deflated footballs? That’s reaching so bad. You are really reaching to try and find anything with that."