"Official" NFL Smack Talkin' Thread

[Ratickle]

Put down three dollars for me on the Broncos winning the Super Bowl...

Big Spender!!!


Don't you mean on the Vikings?????

[Bobcat]

[Ratickle]

Jeeeezzzzz, the Vikings are gonna disown you.....

[Bobcat]

Dja ' make my bet or what ???

[Ratickle]

Heck no, have to protect your meager reputation a little bit.....

[Ratickle]

Waaahhhh, just another reason you can understand why idiots like Pelosi and Boxer get elected.



San Francisco fans sent a letter to a newspaper asking rules on crowd noise to be changed


Don’t think that 49ers fans are going to just let their 29-3 whooping at the hands of the Seahawks go by without retribution. After all, this is the Bay Area! The epicenter of protest! Something unfair must have gone down on Sunday night and Judy Spellman and Rich Schiller plan to do something about it.

Without further ado, we present a letter to the editor that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Was anyone else appalled by the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Seattle Seahawks and their fans, juiced on noise, which surely creates as big an advantage over an opponent as any performance enhancing drug and which, to their shame, NFL officials turn the same blind eye they have to concussions and drugs?

It would be simple to fix. Seahawks players and managers would ask their fans to cease and desist, and the NFL would implement a new rule: The visiting team may stop the game when fan noise is greater than a specified decibel level, and should this rule be violated in more than three games, no home games will be played at the offending field for the rest of the season, including playoff games. Things would quiet down.

At a time when the world seems sour, sports give us a place of joy, community and hope, and to have it spoiled is a bigger loss than it seems on the surface.

Lest you think Judy and Rich are just isolated fans, here is another letter that appeared in the Chronicle:

I couldn’t agree more with “Unsportsmanlike conduct in Seattle” (Letters, Sept. 17).

It wasn’t a game of skill anymore; it was an exhibition of excessive stadium noise, posturing obscenities in your opponent’s face to draw a foul and street-punk behavior to fire up tensions to gain any advantage to get the win.

I hope the NFL will listen before the fans go deaf. Please stop the excessive stadium noise, and just play football.

Ellen Gust, Palo Alto

Sorry, Judy and Rich: You can’t just change the rules because the 49ers can’t deal with crowd noise. If your team is such a bunch of delicate doilies that a loud sounds send them into a tizzy, then they’ve got much bigger problems to deal with.

And the statement about crowd noise being comparable to PEDs is just … well, it’s just lame.

Your team lost. Deal with it. The 49ers’ solution is very simple: Beat the Seahawks when they come play in San Francisco in Week 14 and make sure to win the division. Because if the Niners have to play a playoff game in Seattle, they’re toast. Simple as that.

But thank you for the laugh. I needed that.

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[Bobcat]

They call it the 12th man for a reason. Minnesota 's stadium is loud also.

[Ratickle]

HArd to believe an outdoor stadium like Seattle's is louder than the indoor ones like Minnesota. Oh, the Seattle fans have an exciting team to root for, my bad.....

[Bobcat]

They also reroute the crowd noise through their sound system

[Ratickle]

Nice try bud...


September 11, 2013

Speak up: Seattle crowd attempting noise record vs. 49ers



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The question struck Joe Tafoya in the middle of the night in early July. The Seahawks stadium is famously loud. Could it be world-record loud?

So at 3 a.m., the former Seahawks defensive end hopped on the Internet, found the site for Guinness World Records and fired off an application.

On Sunday evening, he and a legion of Seahawks backers will get their answer when their team takes on the hated San Francisco 49ers. A monitor from Guinness will be on hand at CenturyLink Stadium to see if the din can reach 131.77 decibels, making it the loudest crowd ever recorded. The current record holders, the fans of Galatasary, a Turkish soccer team, reached 131.76 decibels during a match against rival Fenerbahce on March 18, 2011.

Tafoya noted that the Turkish fans set the record with the aid of vuvuzelas and other noise-making devices. Those aren't permitted in NFL venues, meaning the Seattle fans will have to do it by clapping their hands, stomping their feet and exhausting their vocal chords. "That's similar to a jet engine," he said of the noise level. "In order for us to break the record, it's going to have to be extremely loud."

3M is passing out earplugs before the game.


Upon retirement, Tafoya started a marketing company. That company linked up with Volume 12, a Seahawks fan group, for the record attempt. It spent $8,000 to secure the Guinness monitor and also must pay for his trip from New York to Seattle. It hired a sound engineer. And it rented a piece of equipment called a Class 1 precision measuring instrument that will record every decibel generated by the crowd on Sunday.

"It's not something you can pick up off the shelf," Tafoya said.

Opposing players have long suspected that the Seahawks pump in artificial noise through the stadium speakers to enhance the crowd noise. When asked whether the Guinness monitor could detect shenanigans like that, Tafoya said, no, but that he's been assured by the Seahawks they do not use the speakers when the game is in play. "That would be illegal," Tafoya said.

Tafoya said he realized how jarring the noise was inside Seattle's stadium when, as a player, he emerged from the tunnel during the NFC Championship game there in 2005. "There was an unbelievable energy and noise that just kind of gets in your soul," he said. "Right away, you understand that this environment is either going to be very supportive or very hostile. ... The fans thought they were part of that win, and they were."

Tafoya, as it turns out, grew up a 49ers fan. He is from Pittsburg and his brother lives in Sacramento. How does he feel about increasing the volume - and the difficulty level - against his hometown team? "They had their chance," he said with a laugh. "(Steve) Mariucci and his group didn't think I was worth it, so their loss."

-- Matt Barrows

Read more here: 49ers Blog and Q&A: Speak up: Seattle crowd attempting noise record vs. 49ers

[Ratickle]

Notice the last sentence???

Tucked away in last week’s report about blackout rules relaxing and the league trying to improve the in-stadium experience, there was a passing mention that could have a huge impact in some cities.

The league has apparently “liberalized” restraints on crowd noise, with stadiums able to incite their fans into more noise on third downs with P.A. announcements and video displays.

As Nick Eaton of SeattlePI.com points out, that could create an even rowdier atmosphere at Seahawks games.

Now known as CenturyLink Field, the Seahawks’ home has long been regarded as one of the loudest in the league. Whether it’s the architecture or the hearty nature of fans used to watching it rain being unleashed, the place reverberates during the regular season, and can be deafening in the playoffs.

Noise isn’t unique to Seattle. The reality is, the loudest stadiums are almost always the ones in which good teams play.

NFL willing to relax noise rules to create stadium atmosphere | ProFootballTalk

[Bobcat]

Good Lord...we'd better beat Cleveland at home

[Ratickle]

Packers Suck, Vikings Suck, Lions are AWESOME!!!!

[Bobcat]

Took the Lions over Washington, and the Bengals over the Packers.....then the rest of my pool went to hell.

[clayinaustin]

After week three, the NFC East has a total of three wins.
The Dallas Cowboys are 2-1 making them the best of the worst!

[Ratickle]

Hope there's no Raiders fans here.

[Bobcat]

Pryor didn't look too bad...to bad he's an asshole.

[Ratickle]

You could be in luck!!!


Brett Favre Is Game Ready Says Agent Bus Cook


Is your NFL franchise in desperate need of a Pro-Bowl caliber quarterback? You could be in luck if you can talk Brett Favre out of retirement.
According to the famed QB’s agent Bus Cook, Favre is not only game day ready, he’s in the best shape of his life thanks to a highly involved daily workout routine.

Read more at Brett Favre Is Game Ready Says Agent Bus Cook

[Ratickle]

So, are they going after Favre in Minnesota again? Or because they barely beat another winless team they figure they are set now????

[Bobcat]

We're all set !