[QUOTE]The Atlanta Falcons have been fined $350,000 and will lose a 2016 draft pick for pumping artificial crowd noise into the Georgia Dome over the last two seasons.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.kcra.com/sports/falcons-fined-350k-lose-draft-pick-over-fake-crowd-noise/32089092?[/URL]
your title doesn't mention that its artificial noise
this is pretty dumb as a whole though, its pretty pathetic that they have to mimic an excited crowd
I just walked by the Georgia Dome a while back. I was wondering what that sound was. :v:
What, no year-long suspensions of the coach and general manager?
This wasn't just to get the crowd going, it was meant to disrupt the enemy team by making it harder for them to make calls, apparently.
From OP's source:
[quote]The organization was accused in 2013 and 2014 of using fake crowd noise in an apparent attempt to make it more difficult for opponents' offenses to call signals. The league has been investigating the claim since November.[/quote]
They 100% deserve what they got.
[QUOTE=Lorr;47426927]This wasn't just to get the crowd going, it was meant to disrupt the enemy team by making it harder for them to make calls, apparently.
From OP's source:
They 100% deserve what they got.[/QUOTE]
How petty do you have to be?
This isnt anything new. Vikings I know have been in trouble for it before
At least the Redskins can be okay with sucking for the past two decades, they don't need tactics like this afaik.
Fine is okay but losing a 5th round draft pick is total bullshit.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;47428112]Fine is okay but losing a 5th round draft pick is total bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Artificial crowd noise is total bullshit. If you want noise so loud it creates earthquakes, do it the old fashioned way... [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Game[/url]
hahahahahahahahaha
I don't understand why they got fined for something dumb like this?
It's like getting pulled over for having the radio on at normal volume.
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;47429803]I don't understand why they got fined for something dumb like this?
It's like getting pulled over for having the radio on at normal volume.[/QUOTE]
By your logic, we should be allowed to put strobelights behind the opposing team's field goal, I mean it's no different then when you have the headlights on your car, right?
This was being done to gain an unfair advantage against other teams; what they were doing was cheating in the truest sense of the word.
Anyone mind explaining losing a 5th round pick though? Management and marketing should be punished, not the team itself. You don't take a 5th round pick away from a team because their marketing decided it'd be good to boost up the speakers.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;47429990]Anyone mind explaining losing a 5th round pick though? Management and marketing should be punished, not the team itself. You don't take a 5th round pick away from a team because their marketing decided it'd be good to boost up the speakers.[/QUOTE]
This wasn't a marketing decision. It was a thought out ploy to gain an advantage against the opposing team. And though the decision to do so was made well above the player level- it's a punishment that the managers feel.
Did the GM and head coach know? I honestly still feel it's too steep for just boosting up the noise. Remember, the Saints only got fined 150k more and had a pair of 2nds taken away for targeting players to injure them severely, and rewarding players for hurting opponents.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;47430459]Did the GM and head coach know? I honestly still feel it's too steep for just boosting up the noise. Remember, the Saints only got fined 150k more and had a pair of 2nds taken away for targeting players to injure them severely, and rewarding players for hurting opponents.[/QUOTE]
I think you're leaving out the part where the GM, some coaching staff, and key players in the defense were suspended for multiple games to a season, and the head coach wasn't allowed to even [I]communicate[/I] with players for a year. The NFL kneecapped the entire following season, damaged draft picks for two years, and punished the entire city in response to the bounties - something that other teams have done as well, but the Saints were made an example of to a send a message to the league.
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