Current Events > The NFL used to have a rule prohibiting crowds from being too loud

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https://www.footballzebras.com/2020/06/throwback-to-one-of-the-most-annoying-rules-to-officiate-the-noise-rule/

In 1989, the NFL tried to regulate crowd noise and give the visiting team a chance to call the offensive plays in a hostile atmosphere, by passing a crowd noise rule.

It was a flop.
The crowd noise rule

Found in Rule 4, it stated that if the home crowd made it difficult for the visiting team to call a play, the referee would stop the clock and:

-Warn the crowd about excessive noise and ask the players on the field to encourage the crowd to tone it down.
-If repeated, warn the crowd a second time and ask the players on the field to encourage the crowd to tone it down. The referee would also advise the crowd that further excessive noise would result in a charged timeout to the home team.
-On a third violation, charge the home team with a timeout.
-On subsequent excessive noise violations, charge the home team with a timeout.
-If the home team was out of timeouts, penalize the home team for delay of game.

The officials took a hard line in the 1989 preseason, strictly enforcing the crowd noise rule. Referee Dick Jorgensen penalized the Indianapolis Colts for excessive crowd noise in a Sept. 2, 1989, pre-season game, and didnt stop until the Colts received two delay of game penalties.

What a joke lol

Lmao any decently organised fan base would just go in the opposition end and force thst team to lose

GOOGLE posted...

Lmao any decently organised fan base would just go in the opposition end and force thst team to lose

That's not how the rule worked. You'd only be hurting your own team.

Reminder john elway is a bitch

This kind of happens on Soccer lol

Bandit_Keith posted...

That's not how the rule worked. You'd only be hurting your own team.

What?

This was a penalty on the 2K series. Its weird

DD_Divine posted...

This was a penalty on the 2K series. Its weird

To be fair, the rule was still technically on the books the last time 2K made an NFL game lol.

DarthAragorn posted...

Reminder john elway is a bitch

Always funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Csj3xJmwI

GOOGLE posted...

Lmao any decently organised fan base would just go in the opposition end and force thst team to lose

Outside of college sports, it's very rare for the away team to have a defined section in the stadium/arena for their fans in US sports.

I'd love to have seen this alive today and the Chargers getting penalized every home game due to the road crowd outnumbering the Chargers fans in the stands for every game.