NFLs investigation of artifical crowd noise. What are the results?

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2006 article. Whatever came down? Any more recent NFL *investigations* into artificial crowd noise?


Seahawks' 12th Man: The Loudspeakers

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/gia...-loudspea.html

*now called CenturyLink Field.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Of course they pump in extra juice...you can say the "well the architecture! blah blah blah!"...yeah, but they still pump in noise too. Almost every stadium does it, some more egregiously than others

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Of course they pump in extra juice...you can say the "well the architecture! blah blah blah!"...yeah, but they still pump in noise too. Almost every stadium does it, some more egregiously than others

that architecture excuse is total bull , it's not even a dome stadium. If the "architecture" is what causes all that noise then half the dome stadiums in the NFL would be that loud.

[DeadlyDynasty]

that architecture excuse is total bull , it's not even a dome stadium. If the "architecture" is what causes all that noise then half the dome stadiums in the NFL would be that loud.

Exactly. Anybody remember when Adelphia Coliseum (what the ans stadium was called back then) was considered the loudest back in 1999 and 2000? Same thing...winning team+fake fans+extra juice=media manufactured HFA

[MultiTroll]

Of course they pump in extra juice...you can say the "well the architecture! blah blah blah!"...yeah, but they still pump in noise too. Almost every stadium does it, some more egregiously than others

Q is what became of NFLs investigation?
Even if it was a phony dog n pony show.

[J.T.]

Of course they pump in extra juice...you can say the "well the architecture! blah blah blah!"...yeah, but they still pump in noise too. Almost every stadium does it, some more egregiously than others

No sir, my Indianapolis Colts would never do such a thing. 31/32 maybe, but not all of them.

[Fabbs]

that architecture excuse is total bull , it's not even a dome stadium. If the "architecture" is what causes all that noise then half the dome stadiums in the NFL would be that loud.

there there DOKy.

But is all that noise solely The 12th Man's doing, or does it have to do with the architecture of CenturyLink?

"Well, it was built to be a great home field advantage," says Paul Greisemer, principal architectural director at AECOM, the firm that designed CenturyLink." The fact that it is loud is really kind of a result of a number of things that came about just through the design. It's on a very small site, comparatively to other stadiums, and because of that we had to compress the building very tightly. Fans are closer to the field than they are in most any NFL stadium today. So that combined with the desire to have a large roof covering, so fans are protected, really kind of combined the greatest of convergence of storms into a great environment."

Beyond the design, the materials used to build the stadium also contribute to the roar.

"It's a metal roof so it naturally is a very reflective surface. As is the seating bowl which is largely concrete. So there are a lot of those materials that are serving as sound mirrors, if you will, and bouncing the sound right back."

I asked Paul what where the loudest part of the stadium is.

"Luckily, it's right on the field, it seems, from all of the false starts that the visiting teams experience. The way the roof is angled, and the way the bowl captures all the sound that goes backwards and focuses it back towards the center of the stadium, you're pretty much going to get the maximum affect right at the players."

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