How the Patriots' Defense and RPost's Cybersecurity Block Red-Zone Attacks

A Sporty New Era for Compliance.

Hi, this is sporty Armand here again, RPost’s armadillo product evangelist and sports enthusiast. This is my outlet to break away from all that tech talk about RPost’s award-winning cybersecurity, compliance, and eSignature products. 

Last week I emphasized how these RPost products can protect all those dealing in money from cybercriminal lures tricking people—including all those athletes, their managers, sponsors, and financial advisors – into mis-sending funds and directing them to cybercriminal bank accounts in Nigeria or elsewhere (think RPost’s PRE-Crime tech suite). 

This week, I would like to open your eyes to the importance of compliance—not only with RPost’s Registered Encryption for proof of privacy compliance, but also compliance with local rules. And, when I say local rules here, I’m not talking in this instance about my usual suggestion of use of RPost for HIPAA or GDPR privacy rule compliance or Registered Email™ service for proof of compliance with contract notification rules, but rather, compliance with the local rules of not wearing a competitor’s colors in one’s sports stadium?!? Huh? 

This week, while considering how to bring attention to the National Football League, I got caught up in this compliance speak with talk of this embargo of the color green in an opening American football game in Brazil. Strange. Let me explain…

From my armadillo sporty perspective, one of the best weeks of the year is the NFL opening weekend. American football is arguably one of the most entertaining sports to watch—in the eyes of a majority of Americans. But does the rest of the world know?

The NFL has been trying to expand the viewership for the sport by playing occasional high-profile games in new countries. First, the NFL started hosting games in England, then they held games in Mexico and Germany, and now this year, they showcased a game in Brazil—the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Green Bay Packers. Now the funny thing about this game is that both teams love the color green, their fans love green, their uniforms are infused with green, and one of their home cities even has the word “Green” in it (Green Bay). 

So what’s the issue with the color green in Brazil?

There were reports pre-game saying that the players and fans were not permitted to wear apparel or uniforms with green when they were playing or cheering because the gangs in Brazil would take offense. There were other reports that since the game was being played in the NeoQuimica Arena in São Paulo, Brazil, normally home of the Brazilian soccer club Corinthians, they forbade the color green being worn in their stadium as the color green is the color of their longstanding rivals, Palmeiras.

Whatever the truth or origin of this rumor was, this conquest of banishing the color green from the game had many questioning the NFL because if the color green was risky to wear, why did they choose two teams to play in this environment whose main colors were green? 

This got players on both teams speculating and scared, as they obviously did not want to get robbed or hurt by local Brazilian gangs. Top players on both teams spoke about it; even the Eagles wide receiver, one of the best in the NFL, AJ Brown, reported in a press conference that he was going to stay in his hotel the whole time because of all of the reports. 

In the end, this combination of rumor, fake news, and color-coded compliance was pushed to the sidelines literally, and the game went on, both teams clad with green on their uniforms. Green and all, this ended up being a great green game with the Eagles winning a high-scoring and close game following an insanely skilled performance by Saquon Barkley.

Not to be outdone, later in the weekend, the New England Patriots churned out one of the biggest upsets of this first week of the NFL season. It was expected (errr, I was expecting) that the Cincinnati Bengals would have a strong start to the season and would squash the NE Patriots. This was painful for me to think about since I and my armadillo friends are big fans of the New England Patriots. It turns out, the Bengals were a 7.5 point favorite going into the game and ended up losing 16-10 to the Patriots. This game — being all about the defenses, with both offenses seemingly very quiet – tilted in favor of the Patriots’ strong defensive performance. Put simply, in my humble armadillo opinion, this Patriot’s defense was the difference maker in the win as the Patriots ended with an interception in their favor and caused two fumbles to go their way. And better yet for the Patriots defense, both of their caused fumbles were in the Bengals red zone after very good drives down the field by the Bengals, effectively thwarting a lot of effort and sweat by the Bengals offense. 

Even though the Patriots had a very sluggish offense, my armadillo friends all voted the player of the game as Patriots running back Rhemondre Stevenson. I know I’m saying how amazing the defense was, but Stevenson was simply pure bliss to watch—clearly the best player of the game with 126 yards and the Patriots only touchdown. 

While it may be a daunting task complying with rules to eliminate green from a game with two green-clad teams, it’s not so daunting to use RPost tech to comply with privacy rules. Easy. I trust that after reading this, the Eagles and Green Bay team operators are thinking, “Green is Great, and RPost makes Compliance Easy.”

As for the Patriots, remember, when a cybercriminal is in your red zone, about to score (your money), think RPost. RPost’s PRE-Crime™ suite can thwart the cybercriminal attacks in the red zone as swiftly as the Patriots defense thwarted the Bengals attacks in the red zone. I’m sure the Patriots managers are thinking, “The Patriots’ defense and RPost's cyber defense are both great options to thwart red-zone attacks…”

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