It’s a good thing NFL officials were on hand yesterday to monitor the scandal that is the cheating speakers of Qwest Field and the amplified Seattle Seahawk fans.

Because wow, did those speakers ever work. Logically you’d need speakers to amplify 68,121 fans in a concrete structure, and speakers are known to cause multiple first-quarter interceptions, and 35-3 first half thrashings. Clearly investigation was warranted.

If I were a Giants fan I’d be livid, obviously the speakers are the only thing to blame in a game that saw the largest first half thumping in the Giants 82 year history. But instead, I’m a Seahawks fan and I was sitting in the stadium laughing myself to tears. After last year’s win against the Giants in overtime I knew we, as loud fans, were cheaters—but I had no idea we were just that good at cheating.

I found out later that Howie Long opined at halftime, “Seattle is still not running the ball effectively“. Moron. But that coming during a nationwide broadcast of a Seattle team, historically speaking, the comment is quite high praise so I really shouldn’t complain.

After soaking up that nugget of “praise,” this morning I scanned more articles to find further evidence of Seattle’s, cheatin’, cheatin’, 3-0 start. Oddly, there were a few accounts of New York’s drubbing that didn’t place blame squarely on the shoulders of the Qwest Field PA system. One of the most concise was Jeremy Shockey’s:

“Yeah, we got outplayed,” he said. “No 12th man, no (bleeping) excuses. We lost the game, that’s basically it.”

Strange. I wonder what he was talking about?