Re: Crowd Noise at Nets Game

[Daniel Forant Sr <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

I heard the same. It was weird, like the fan noise was coming out of a can,
or a bunch of high school students rallying. Sure sounded like it was piped
in. The Nets need a win so bad, who knows. They have a lot of talent, their
coach may be the problem, so they have a few injuries, who doesn't.

At 09:45 AM 2/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Was it my imagination or were they piping in recorded crowd noise over the
>PA system at the Celtics-Nets game?  It seemed to appear rather often when
>the Nets were on defense, trying to distract the visiting team.  I would
>look at the actual crowd and they were pretty much passively sitting on
>their hands.
>     It's one thing to over-do it on these high-tech, high-noise,
>fireworks-pyrotechnics starting-lineup introductions -- okay I can live with
>that, it's "entertainment".  But I think the league should call a halt to
>artificially produced sound that blares throughout the arena WHEN THE BALL
>IS IN PLAY!  Home court advantage should be produced by the fans in the
>arena, not by some sound engineer sitting at a control panal.
>
>Ed Ag  afn15554@afn.org
                  
>
>
>