49er fans complaining about crowd noise in Seattle

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http://mynorthwest.com/275/2356634/Letter-to-editor-asks-12th-Man-to-pipe-down

In a letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle, two fans, Judy Spelman and Rich Schiller, accuse the 12th Man of poor conduct during Sunday's 29-to-3 rout.
They wrote:

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 ("Seattle states case loudly, clearly in rout," Sports, Sept. 16)?
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.

710 ESPN's Brock Huard did a little digging around and discovered the writers of the letter were a doctor and a nurse. However, it's not that they seemed too concern with the health of anyone's eardrums.

But they do have a point. Danny O'Neil said there is still a rule in the NFL referee handbook that allows for a quarterback, if he can't hear, to appeal to the referee to quiet the crowd.

Brock and Danny agree that asking the crowd to tone it down is almost always guaranteed to backfire. They say the fans will only get crazier and crazier.

"Every team has discovered that is a terrible thing to do," said Danny.

Spelman and Schiller said there should be consequences for the Seahawks and their Guinness World Record-holding fans too.

It turns out there are consequences, but only if CenturyLink was pumping in sound to the stadium. "The Seahawks would be fined substantially," said Brock.

But the writers want something more tangible - they don't want the Seahawks to be able to play games at home.

There is a precedent for sports teams to lose their home field advantage.

It happens in Europe to soccer teams. "But usually it's the result of murders, riots and mayhem - not from people making too much noise," said Danny. "I've got a solution for (Spelman and Schiller,) if they don't want the noise to be too much of a problem: play better. The crowd tends to be a lot quieter when you're down 21-0."

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Pathetic!  But its typical hypocritical statements from 40whiner fans   boo hoo hoo about poor conduct.  What about the poor conduct that frisco sports fans love to have? 

NFL
Their fans are the new no cal-raider/laker fans.  Of course the raider fans are more likable.  Frisco fans love to be verbally & physically abusive now.  Call an opposing fans 16 yr. old daughter a whore because she likes the saints.  In the past when they were terrible, a 9er fan threw a beer bottle at Eddie DeFartolo when he was just beginning to run the franchise. 
Very spoiled fans
1994 when the eagles blew them out  40-8, 85-95% of frisco fans demanded that Seifert be fired.  Acted like they were the 70's 9ers who were terrible.
MLB
The giants fans are proud of throwing batteries, lighters, bottles & screwdrivers at dodger players.  Seen Raul Mondesi get hit in the back of the head with an object on tv.  They call opponents pitcher's chicken when they would intentionally walk Bonds, but it was ok 4 them  2 walk McGwire intentionally evertime too in the late 90's.  Would be verbally & physically abusive towards dodger fans & anyone who wore anything of L.A., far as i'm concerned...that behavior caused Brian Stow to get attacked 2 years later.  NOT SAYING ITS RIGHT!  But when someone starts trouble, someone else will finish it.  Its a fact of life.  It was disgusting to see giant & dodger players in a get 2gether to not fight each other.  Teams fans cause that junk to happen.  Of course weeks or months later, those same frisco fans death threat a marlin player who ran into Buster Posey.  Guess someone didn't learn their lesson. 

And their fans act stupid when someone speaks the truth about Bonds' character.