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The NFL Needs To Investigate This.

Worked all day, shopped, ate, now wrapping for the kids...of course a little vino is hittin the lips. Merry Christmas everyone, gotta get back to wrapping.
 
artdnj said:
Worked all day, shopped, ate, now wrapping for the kids...of course a little vino is hittin the lips. Merry Christmas everyone, gotta get back to wrapping.
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Same to you. And since i will be visiting family in New York. I will visit the league office on Park Avenue about this. I am sure they won't let me see the Commissioner but I will make enough of a stink that they will at least take notice.
 
shouright said:
I think this could've had a great deal to do with the performance on Sunday. There should be tighter security measures, or NFL teams should stay only in hotels where those kinds of security measures are available.
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Ill agree to an extent. Maybe a bit of effect depending on how long some guys stayed up. Ill mostly agree that there needs to be tight security.
 
Anyone who reads my posts know I am usually very hard on my Dolphins. I really hate to make excuses after a performance we all saw on Sunday and I am sure the coaches are not going to. But this is a big deal and I am sure even the most devoted Bills fan will admit that this isn't right. And does anyone out there think this is a coincidence?
 
I am with you in thinking that security at the hotel our players stay at is a must. No doubt this false alarm affected some players...no doubt that every player got up, exited the room and waited for firetruck to arrive and deem the building safe. Probably around 4 am when that is done. Good chance that some did not hardly sleep the rest of that night and most would have had to be up again at 7 ish. For sure it would have affected us and no way could something like this be a good thing. Buffalo is a ****ing stinkhole, but we need to make sure that kind of prank does not happen again.
 
phinking said:
I just learned today that the Hotel in Buffalo where the Dolphins were staying at for the Bills game ran a bogus fire alarm at 3 am asking people to evacuate. This obviously woke the players up and I am sure most of them were not able to go back to sleep for hours after that. I am not trying to make excuses for that performance on Sunday, but I am sure some of the players had to be affected. I think this was done on purpose and heads need to roll over it. Once again, we have individuals making bad decisions that affect the integrity of the game and it should not be allowed. Bobby Beathard pulled the same stunt in that 1994 Divisional Playoff game when the Dolphins had a 21-6 lead on San Diego. he had someone knock out the lights in the Miami locker room making the Dolphins unable to make any adjustment they may have wanted during halftime. The Phins went on to lose that game. We all know about Bill Belacheat's exploits. I am sure the Buffalo Bills organization will deny any involvement. But the NFL needs to find out why there was an alarm in the first place and if they are not satisfied with the answer, the Bills organization should lose a 1st round pick. This garbage should neither go unpunished nor tolerated.
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You just take your business elsewhere. Play the market, don't let it play you.
 
Unless they have concrete proof the Bills had someone set off the alarm nothing can be done. You can't punish the organization over a fans actions they have no control over. Had something transpired inside the stadium that would be a different story.
 
This is an old-style trick that can still be disruptive. In modern cities with modern hotels there would be some sort of security/surveillance to prevent these sort of shenanigans. But this is Buffalo and the Dolphins were probably lucky to find a hotel with a bed big enough for Bryant McKinnie. We should be very thankful that the Bills fan didn't go to the next step and actually burn the hotel down. Having succeeded in the fire alarm stunt in this case, don't be surprised if it emboldens the perpetrator(s) to do it again. Visiting teams to Buffalo will need to have a good accommodation plan to beat a master strategist like this.
As for the Bills losing a 1st round draft pick, it won't happen. In the words of the iconic Chris Berman, "Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills".
 
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it is illegal. the motive is obvious. nothing will happen.
 
all kidding aside... this was part of the Patriot way not so long ago... happened to Jets/Bills in ‘09 and was done frequently years prior league-wide; NFL mildly threatened punishment for home teams and home city hotels, and it went away... that said, alarms are supposed to be monitored - so either someone knows, hasn't reported or isn't ratting; or it was a hotel employee... not saying it's why they lost, but it prob helped slow up everybody... players and coaches
 
phinking said:
I just learned today that the Hotel in Buffalo where the Dolphins were staying at for the Bills game ran a bogus fire alarm at 3 am asking people to evacuate. This obviously woke the players up and I am sure most of them were not able to go back to sleep for hours after that. I am not trying to make excuses for that performance on Sunday, but I am sure some of the players had to be affected. I think this was done on purpose and heads need to roll over it. Once again, we have individuals making bad decisions that affect the integrity of the game and it should not be allowed. Bobby Beathard pulled the same stunt in that 1994 Divisional Playoff game when the Dolphins had a 21-6 lead on San Diego. he had someone knock out the lights in the Miami locker room making the Dolphins unable to make any adjustment they may have wanted during halftime. The Phins went on to lose that game. We all know about Bill Belacheat's exploits. I am sure the Buffalo Bills organization will deny any involvement. But the NFL needs to find out why there was an alarm in the first place and if they are not satisfied with the answer, the Bills organization should lose a 1st round pick. This garbage should neither go unpunished nor tolerated.
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This is old news and was posted here and in the game day thread,lose a draft pick??? :crazy:

http://www.finheaven.com/showthread...-45-am&p=1064931996&highlight=#post1064931996
 
GoonBoss said:
What good will it do? It was probably some idiot fan.
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This, when I was in highschool in DC this happened all the time when the Giants/Eagles/Cowboys were in town, somebody would find out the hotel and people (fans/teenagers) would stake it out and pull the fire alarm at an inopportune moment. Nothing new or out of the ordinary here, not to mention there isn't anything the NFL can do...they're not the Supreme Court lol
 
I stayed in the same hotel as the players the night before a game in miami in '08. There was nothing keeping me from pulling a fire alarm or anybody else not staying there for that matter. I don't remember any strict security presence other than when they walked into the hotel and signed autographs for fans. Other than standing with my son as he got autographs, we didn't attempt to engage or search for players at anytime. I'm sure they had a couple floors with no access. Bottom line is, it would be almost impossible for a hotel to curtail this type of behavior.
 
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