Will vuvuzelas find their way to NFL stadiums?

[jimmy40]

Is so, will some fan be beaten to death with theirs?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Vuvuzela_red.jpg/300px-Vuvuzela_red.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Vuvuzelas_1.jpg/300px-Vuvuzelas_1.jpg

[casmith07]

No. As far as I know, NFL rules don't allow for any noisemakers during games.

Most American sports only allow stadium-issued noisemakers, like the inflatable thundersticks that you see at NBA games.

[Yeagermeister]

Someone will sneak one in but won't get to keep it for long.

[ajk23az]

If those things ever got into football, I would have to watch the TV on mute the whole time. Same way I do when I watch 5 minutes of the World Cup here and there.

If I were at a game and some retard had one of those, I would grab it from him and break it. I hate those things.

[theogt]

They'd get knocked the **** out at a football stadium.

[Hostile]

Yet another reason to hate soccer that I just got introduced to in the last couple of weeks.

[Ren]

I think we've heard the last of them i doubt people will even remember them a few month from now

They seem to be hated everywhere but South Africa

[jimmy40]

Why is it every time I tried to watch a vuvuzela concert someone decided to play soccer?

[kristie]

Why is it every time I tried to watch a vuvuzela concert someone decided to play soccer?

don't know. :laugh2:

[casmith07]

Won't happen.


NFL rules on crowd noise
Crowd Noise

While the League does not wish to place restrictions on spontaneous crowd noise or to diminish fan enjoyment in our sport, it is each club's responsibility to exert proper control over cheerleaders and mascots (including noise-making specialists hired exclusively for that purpose), use of scoreboards, message boards, etc. Artificial or manufactured crowd noise in NFL stadiums has increased to the extent that teams have notified the league office that they have experienced difficulty communicating within their bench area as well as on the field.

(1) Club-Controlled Sound: The home club does not have the prerogative to decide if such sound hampers signal calling. While spontaneous crowd noises may be beyond immediate control, noise of any kind (music, horns, gongs, drums, etc.) that is under club control must cease when the play clock (40 or 25 second) is running and the visiting team is in possession of the ball. Flagrant attempts by cheerleaders, mascots or the public-address system to encourage crowd noise for the purpose of disrupting the visiting team's offense while the play clock is running is prohibited. The use of noise meters or such messages as "Noise!," "Let's hear it!," "Raise the Roof," "Let's go Crazy," "Pump it up," "12th Man" are prohibited at any time during the game. These examples are not limited to the foregoing, but also would include similar messages that encourage crowds to make random noise in order to disrupt the opposition. The prohibitions specified in this section also apply during kicking plays.

Exception: Any conventional cheerleader or mascot actions or the use of the scoreboard or message board for acceptable cheers such as "Defense!" and "Push 'em back!" must be stopped when the huddle breaks and/or the offensive team moves to the line of scrimmage.

(2) "Wave": Club-controlled efforts to start the "Wave" cheer, through the use of cheerleaders or message boards — even if the actions are stopped when the visiting team breaks the huddle — are a violation of the crowd noise policy.

(3) Noise-Making Devices: Klaxons, megaphones, bullhorns, whistles and other noisemakers of any kind are not permitted in stadium.

(4) Field-Level Speakers: The number of field-level speakers must be limited to a maximum of four. They must be placed between the goal lines and the 20-yard lines, and be pointed away from the bench area and the playing field. All sound from such speakers must cease when play clock starts for the visiting team's possession.

(5) Mascots: Team mascots must stay behind the six-foot white border at all times during the game (they may be on the field at appropriate times during the pregame and at halftime when players are not on the field), and they are prohibited from engaging in any acts of taunting opposing players, coaches, and game officials. In the event of violations, teams employing the mascots will be subject to significant fines.

(6) Videos: Video clips may be shown during pregame, halftime, postgame, between quarters, and after a score by the home team, as long as the content is in good taste and not derogatory to the visiting team. At no time may such clips be shown while the play clock or game clock is running.

Clubs should be aware of the playing rule adopted in 1989 which establishes a set of procedures, including loss of timeouts or 5-yard penalty on the defense, to handle the problem of crowd noise which prevents the offense from hearing its signals.

Source: The NFL

[Hostile]

I wanted Jerry to sell Cowboys painted cowbells for the games. I know I'd buy one and clang the hell out of that thing when the other team's offense broke the huddle.

But alas, against the rules.

[Bob Sacamano]

Won't happen.

It just says "crowd noise".

[casmith07]

It just says "crowd noise".

Look under noisemakers.

[Rynie]

I wanted Jerry to sell Cowboys painted cowbells for the games. I know I'd buy one and clang the hell out of that thing when the other team's offense broke the huddle.

But alas, against the rules.

I thought Colts fans do that at their games? I could be wrong, but I want to say I remember hearing them while randomly watching a Colt's game.

[the kid 05]

I wanted Jerry to sell Cowboys painted cowbells for the games. I know I'd buy one and clang the hell out of that thing when the other team's offense broke the huddle.

But alas, against the rules.
http://theramblings.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/more-cowbell.jpg

[casmith07]

I thought Colts fans do that at their games? I could be wrong, but I want to say I remember hearing them while randomly watching a Colt's game.

Nope. Noisemakers are against the rules. Only fan cheering and chants are allowed.

[daschoo]

I think we've heard the last of them i doubt people will even remember them a few month from now

They seem to be hated everywhere but South Africa

really hope so, i know celtic are selling them in the club shop so i'll probably have to put up with them a bit at the start of the season from kids but hopefully they soon die out. (the vuvuzelas not the kids)

[Yeagermeister]

Nope. Noisemakers are against the rules. Only fan cheering and chants are allowed.

They aren't allowed but that won't stop some idiot from sneaking one in. :laugh2:

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Yet another reason to hate soccer that I just got introduced to in the last couple of weeks.

hating vuvuzelas is racist as it is a cultural item in South Africa

Ask yourself, is playing one of them worse than painted face guy, bead wearing guy or beer guzzling, painted face guy in beads?

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I wanted Jerry to sell Cowboys painted cowbells for the games. I know I'd buy one and clang the hell out of that thing when the other team's offense broke the huddle.

But alas, against the rules.

a cowbell is better than a vuvuzela?

[Alumni2k11]

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9281/410s.jpg

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Maybe all Cowboy fans could download the vuvuzela app on their phone and play it when the opponent is on offence. Surely Roger Robespierre would not ban cell phones from stadiums.

[Seven]

Someone will sneak one in but won't get to keep it for long.

Hopefully a fan takes care of this and the next time you hear it is when said fan farts.

[rkell87]

Hopefully a fan takes care of this and the next time you hear it is when said fan farts.
:laugh2: :bow:

[kristie]

They aren't allowed but that won't stop some idiot from sneaking one in. :laugh2:
exactly what i was thinking.;)

[KatieScott]

Its hard to prevent hate vuvuzela!!