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04-11-2013, 10:37 PM #13Regular 1st Stringer
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04-11-2013, 10:39 PM #14
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
Who here remembers when the home team received a delay of game penalty for "excessive crowd noise"??? Poor visiting team QB (wasn't it that weasel Elway?) complained about being unable to hear himself because those naughty Chiefs fans were too loud... Oh my. And what happened when the referee warned the crowd to get quiet? They got even louder. I think those were the teams and Elway was the pussy begging for the penalty.
How I pine for the days when the league knew the right way to deal with fans. NOT!
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If the home crowd cannot get pumped up to generate noise on their own, video prompts are not really going to help them.
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04-11-2013, 11:00 PM #15Legendary RSR Poster
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04-11-2013, 11:15 PM #16Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
Stupid question here. (I've only been to a couple of games & never paid much attention to the video boards.)
If your screens are positioned behind the two endzones, & it is now OK to use "video prompts" throughout the play, what's to prevent a team from flashing that "video prompt" VERY BRIGHT & VERY FAST as soon as the opposing offense breaks the huddle in an attempt to distract the QB? Flashing bright lights in the QB's face could be just as disruptive of the play as loud noise.
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04-11-2013, 11:34 PM #17
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
The best way to distract the opposing team... And everyone else...
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04-11-2013, 11:52 PM #18“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
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04-12-2013, 01:20 AM #19
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
The audio prompts being allowed to 20 seconds left on the play clock might slow down some teams' no huddle a bit more since it might be harder to hear the signals called from the line of scrimmage if the sound system is piping "audio prompts" for the first half of the clock time.
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04-12-2013, 04:34 AM #20
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
Any crowd who needs to be told when to cheer isn't a crowd worthy of their own football team.
We have an advantage over many as our 'intelligent fan' ratio is higher than, say, Jacksonville, who require a zipline riding mascot to get excited :grbac:
Just another example of the NFL trying to substitute genuine passion and spontaneity with a league-approved, controlled gameday experience.
Maybe Goodell could issue thousands of electronically controlled muzzles for teams to activate on their fans when the home side is on offense.
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04-12-2013, 10:22 AM #21
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
Do you guys realize that the NFL actually passed a rule that favors the Defense for a change? :D
Twenty years of Cheers.
Thanks Baltimore Ravens Fans - You're the Best!
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04-12-2013, 10:29 AM #22
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
In case you haven't noticed, there are 71,000 other folks who go to the stadium besides just you. WiFi at the stadium would be a great idea. People do want to check fantasy stats or real time scores in the other games, and I know my cell phone is almost unusable for data during a game because the cell towers are getting slammed.
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04-12-2013, 10:45 AM #23
Re: New NFL rules for amping up the crowd noise ...
Twenty years of Cheers.
Thanks Baltimore Ravens Fans - You're the Best!
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04-12-2013, 10:59 AM #24Regular 1st Stringer
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