New Orleans, LA - Saints Monitored Opponents Frequencies

[Volfirefighter]

Sources: New Orleans Saints' Mickey Loomis could eavesdrop on opposing coaches during home games - ESPN

Anyone with any knowledge of how NFL coaches headsets are scrambled care to comment on how this might have been possible?

 

[scannerfreak]

Wire tapping. They didn't decrypt the encryption, they are accused of tapping into the hard lines themselves.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...encryption-not-relevant-if-wires-were-tapped/

 

[karldotcom]

The whole story is a load of BS

 

[b7spectra]

After working for 31 years at AT&T, you would be surprise on how EASY it is to tap into any communication! Sometimes we had to instruct the feds on how to do it when they came in with wiretap orders.

 

[fdcaptjd]

To my knowledge, the only part of side line communications that is wireless is from the headset the coach is wearing to a cart on the side line. The comms are then wire line from this digital radio system to the booth upstairs.

Punching down a another extension at the demarc would be easy enough.

Just a tidbit: the headsets may have the Moto logo, but the radio system is built by Telex.

Regards,

 

[kb2vxa]

I don't care how they did it, I'm laughing so hard my only concern is ending up looking like The Joker.

 

[Fast1eddie]

This has been going on for years! At one time skilled lip readers attended the games incognito and passed intel to the coaching staff. Think that was when it was common practice to deny water to players during practice. There may have been more drug dealers on the field than on the streets then. Times have changed.

 

[KE5TLF]

What I really want to know is the REAL story behind all of this crap. By that I mean WHO pissed off WHO, and WHO is running around airing every bit or dirty laundry they have on the Saints organization. Of course we'll never hear anything about that part of it.

All this stuff being aired about the Saints, among many other forms of "dirty deeds", is nothing that any number of organizations across the whole of professional sports hasn't done, or is still doing to this day. Hell it's not even limited to pro sports either.