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NFL: Keep it down

Thursday, December 15, 2005

The memo sent by the NFL to teams this week was a reminder of the rules on club-generated crowd noise. Violations of the policy could result in fines and possibility the loss of draft choices. The rule is pretty simple. When the play-clock starts for an opposing team on offense, club generated noise has to cease. Fans can cheer all they want, but they can't be prompted by music or messages on the scoreboard calling for noise. When the visiting team is on defense, the club generated noise must st ...

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