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01-19-2014, 11:09 AM
2006 article. Whatever came down? Any more recent NFL *investigations* into artificial crowd noise?
Seahawks' 12th Man: The Loudspeakers (http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2006/09/seahawks-12th-man-the-loudspea.html) BY Ralph Vacchiano
According to a report in the Seattle Times, the NFL is investigating long-rumored allegations that the Seahawks enhance the noise at *Qwest Field by pumping in artificial noise. The Giants were hardly surprised by that news today. Most of the players said they were caught off guard by how loud the stadium was when they played there last season. A few of them even mentioned loudspeakers that seemed to be pointed straight at the Giants sidelines.
The Seahawks, of course, wouldn't be the first or only sports team to try a trick as pathetic and weak as pumping in artificial crowd noise or even amplifying their own crowd with microphones and speakers (as anyone who has ever been to a Devils or Nets game at the Meadowlands arena can attest). A quick survey of the Giants' locker room turned up similar complaints about Buffalo, Green Bay and Minnesota. And sitting in the high press box in St. Louis, it's pretty clear that crowd noise isn't all real.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2006/09/seahawks-12th-man-the-loudspea.html
*now called CenturyLink Field.
Seahawks' 12th Man: The Loudspeakers (http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2006/09/seahawks-12th-man-the-loudspea.html) BY Ralph Vacchiano
According to a report in the Seattle Times, the NFL is investigating long-rumored allegations that the Seahawks enhance the noise at *Qwest Field by pumping in artificial noise. The Giants were hardly surprised by that news today. Most of the players said they were caught off guard by how loud the stadium was when they played there last season. A few of them even mentioned loudspeakers that seemed to be pointed straight at the Giants sidelines.
The Seahawks, of course, wouldn't be the first or only sports team to try a trick as pathetic and weak as pumping in artificial crowd noise or even amplifying their own crowd with microphones and speakers (as anyone who has ever been to a Devils or Nets game at the Meadowlands arena can attest). A quick survey of the Giants' locker room turned up similar complaints about Buffalo, Green Bay and Minnesota. And sitting in the high press box in St. Louis, it's pretty clear that crowd noise isn't all real.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/giants/2006/09/seahawks-12th-man-the-loudspea.html
*now called CenturyLink Field.