• League-curated audio must be played in all stadiums that do not admit fans. To begin the season, curated audio must be played in stadiums that admit fans. NFL Football Operations will re-evaluate the use of audio in stadiums with fans as the season progresses.
• Your club’s game presentation staff must play the curated audio through the stadium’s PA system at 70 dBs.
• Clubs are prohibited from implementing any additional remote fan crowd noise, including from the parking lots or other areas outside the stadium.
• A club’s failure to adhere to these policies, including any attempt to manipulate the League-provided curated audio, will constitute a violation of the Game Operations Manual. Violations of any of the policies set forth above or in the Game Operations Manual may result in the imposition of fines on the club, fines and/or suspensions of persons involved, and/or the forfeiture of a draft choice(s), including for first offenses. Ignorance of a policy or rule set forth in this Manual will not be considered a mitigating factor with respect to the assessment of accountability measures.
Maybe a laugh track would be more appropriate.
ReplyDeleteCurated Audio; i.e., now sporting events will adapt the “canned laughter” technique of TV “sitcoms” in live sports. Well, not so much spectators but live players. For now. Never a real fan of the contrived nature of sitcoms, totally swore at them & off them once slow learner me figured out the subliminal nature of the process.
ReplyDeleteFurther erosion of broadcast sports is a weekend report of at least one broadcast team ignoring teams in-play in favor of using on-air time to flog radical political agendas. Well Sports, y’all easily missed a few plays on that one. Better to STFU and call punt, pass or kick.
I didn't serve my country for 3 years, 4 months and 18 days to have a bunch of multi-millionaire, so called, athletes disrespect our country, our people, our flag, our national anthem, and my brothers in arms. It is a whole line of brothers going back to 1776 who allowed these ingrates to pursue their happiness, while a lot of my brothers died to preserve a system that allows them to compete at the highest level of their chosen sport and pays them a lot of money to do it.
ReplyDeleteAt no other job in this country would the owners and managers of a company allow this take a knee disrespect for our country to take place at their workplace.
Fuck these ingrates. I'm done with sports.
No one in this country should be watching any sports program.
L*E*T T*H*E*M S*T*A*R*V*E
Nemo
I'm not watching professional sports anymore. Too much drama, too much foolishness, too many distractions, and way too much political correctness.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you guys. Matter of fast I stopped watching these whiney, overpaid, undereducated, over-tattooed Burn-Loot & Murder loving creatures 40 years ago. I hope enough Americans will join our Deplorable team: "The National Make-America-Great-Again Patriots".
ReplyDeleteWhat's next? Canned Laughter? Clowns.
ReplyDeleteIs the NFL trying to make a comeback?
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought they chose to shut down a couple years ago?
What? The NFL wasn't already using canned crowd sounds to stimulate the actual physical and broadcast audience?
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching rugby for the same reason. Empty seats, loud crowd noise (WTF?)
ReplyDeletePlayers salaries are predicated on them filling stadiums with fans. Will there be wage cuts to the players when they play in empty or only partly filled venues?
ReplyDeleteI sure hope so.
DeleteNever made a red cent off'n my a$$ and never used more'n 5 seconds of my eyeballz. It's always been retarded and especially the people that drool over it.
ReplyDeleteWatched the NFL 50 years, won't be 51
ReplyDeleteThe Jumbo-Tron haranguing and the non-stop attention-grabbing diversions started taking over sports a long time ago, destroying the natural rhythm of the games, which is where half the understanding and excitement and satisfaction comes from. The music and noise is deafening 100% of the time now - no between-play trash-talking with your bleacher mates, no arguing plays, none of that. Watch the Jumbo-Tron instead and see the Kiss Cam!
ReplyDeleteNow they're trying on the most outrageous con of them all: Watch us pretend to cheer on players pretending to play to an empty stadium, more after a word from our sponsors.
Looks like they lost most of us at step 2. It would take a lot to get me back in that meat grinder, and I love baseball games. Now I just go see the AA team play and enjoy it 1000%. No Jumbo-Tron.
Potempkin would be so very proud.
ReplyDelete^^^ for the win.
Deletechoreographed touchdowns!
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