They're piping in crowd noise for the NFL games

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[soothsayer]

1. Too bad. My Washington Football Team is used to silent, empty stadiums

[leftieNanner]

2. They have been for the NBA games too nt

[klook]

3. Some teams should have laugh tracks. (nt)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. I'll have to watch the Bengals today...

... to get a better feel for how long Joe Burrow will last until he's "Bungalized".

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. . . .

[madinmaryland]

12. They definitely need that in Pittsburgh for the Pirates. Ugh.

[cilla4progress]

5. So are they differentiating for

home team v. visitors?

Is it live or a recording?

Gonna be funny - my Seahawks are going to lose a major home field advantage!

[caraher]

10. The league said the level must remain constant

From The News tribune:

The NFL is allowing teams that are not permitted by local public-health restrictions for COVID-19 to have fans in attendance to pipe in recorded crowd noise during games. The league has given those teams a range of sound levels permitted during games.

The Seahawks had two mock-game scrimmages at CenturyLink Field during training camp last month, primarily so they could try out noise levels and find the optimal one for their home games this season. Initially this spring, when it became apparent King County and Washington state COVID-19 restrictions would keep fans from attending Seahawks home games, Carroll indicated he wanted to crank the volume to 11 during games. He wanted to replicate as raucous a Seattle crowd as possible.

Then Carroll reconsidered. He and Wilson talked how maxing out the allowable artificial noise would hamper the quarterback’s ability to communicate with his offense and change plays through verbal audibles before snaps. League rules mandate a stadium’s recorded crowd noise must stay the same from kickoff through the end of the game; it can’t be loud when the opponent’s offense is on the field then lower when the home team has the ball.

So Carroll and the Seahawks have settled on what sounds more like background, white noise from cars and trucks going by on nearby I-5, than a Seahawks home crowd.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. They even have booing!

[3catwoman3]

8. Same thing for English Premier League...

...soccer matches.

[pansypoo53219]

9. packer-viking didn't.

[caraher]

11. Yes

The rules are basically: no more than 75 dB and the level must be steady throughout the game