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NFL Considering Pumping Fake Crowd Noise Into Stadiums

Posted by M. C. on August 24, 2020

Pro sports is looking bad. It is going the way of MTV.
Fake crowd noise is a couple years too late for a lot of teams.
How about cardboard cutouts of people in the stands?
This is what happens when big tough sports teams cowtow to extortionists to keep the money flowing to pay extravagant salaries and fund PC PR campaigns.
If sports teams and big business had any intestinal fortitude the government would be too busy paying damage claims instead of steamrollering the rest of US.
This is a good time to cut the cable, ride a bike, read some books, learn something new.
It’s a big world out there. Bigger than 42 inches across corners.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/08/23/nfl-considering-pumping-fake-crowd-noise-into-stadiums-as-seasons-nears/?fbclid=IwAR18F32N4roV8DxgIVZmCskghbWdQBSUwmf29vWL5V9lq8ZVBWv31iM7-VE

by Warner Todd Huston

The NFL is considering the idea of pumping in fake crowd noises into stadiums this season, to add to the entertainment value of the games.

On Wednesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the NFL is “considering a league-wide policy that would enable fan sound to be heard in stadiums.”

The NFL would not be the first to use fake crowd noise to make TV broadcasts seem more exciting. The pros in baseball, soccer, and basketball have already tried the tactic.

According to Yahoo Sports, MLB used the crowd noise from the video game MLB The Show and the NBA also used video game recordings, its from NBA 2K. Major League Soccer did not divulge the source of its artificial crowd sounds.

If the NFL does begin using fake crowd noises, it will necessitate a rules change. Current league rules prohibit artificial crowd sounds.

Indeed, in 2015, the Atlanta Falcons was fined $350,000 and lost a fifth-round draft pick for pumping fake crowd noise into the stadium.

At the time, Falcons Owner Arthur Blank apologized for hurting the “integrity of the NFL.”

“What took place was wrong and nowhere near the standards by which we run our business. Anytime there are actions that compromise the integrity of the NFL or threaten the culture of our franchise, as this issue did, they will be dealt with swiftly and strongly,” he said.

In other announcements, the NFL has also nixed all cheerleaders, sideline reporters, and extraneous TV personnel down on the field during the season, at least at the outset, the league said this week.

That would about cancel the job of any female that works with and or for the NFL.

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Major League Baseball’s Disgusting Deal With the Government of Cuba

Posted by M. C. on January 1, 2019

America’s Game!

Another Asterisk in the baseball record book. Pro sports in general stinks.

I liked it better when players smoked, played with hangovers and set records.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/12/major-league-baseballs-disgusting-deal.html#more

MLB has cut a deal that will keep the bidding for Cuban players below free-market levels which will also result in MLB collecting taxes from Cuban players for the Cuban regime.

Mary Anastasia O’Grady explains:

Major League Baseball has cut a deal with the Cuban military dictatorship in which Havana will allow Cubans to play in the U.S. In exchange baseball will garnish their salaries and send the money to the regime…

The regime already boasts the world’s largest state-run human-trafficking operation. For decades it has placed Cubans abroad to work for foreign companies or governments as indentured servants. Workers go “voluntarily” because their economic circumstances at home are so dire and they have no other options. But once abroad they receive a small fraction of what they earn; the rest goes to the Cuban state…

–RW 

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