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Orchestrating the roar of the crowd
In all of football, there s nothing quite as exciting as the roar of the crowd … and nothing more unsettling than the silence of an empty stadium.
That s the situation the NFL had to contend with this season when social distancing limited the number of fans who could attend in person.
Correspondent David Pogue asked NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson, who played for the New York Giants for 13 years, Is the sound of the fans something that propels you, or is it something that annoys you? Well, if we re winning and doing well, it propels me, Carson said. If they are calling me names and if we re losing, then that annoys me. It s amazing how, you know, the noise really does come into play at some point.