yeah, I watched some of it. Like baseball, they are not overdoing it. More ambient and then increase in crucial moments.

Crowd noise ain't the same at Arrowhead as it is at the Chargers. Our HFA is gone but its going to be a different year. "Normal" ain't happening this year. It is what it is.

If the Raiders suck and no one is around to see it, did they really suck?

No ‘Arrowhead Mystique’ this year.

Yet, with no fans in the stands to swing momentum in a big way, the team with the most talent should have the edge. This year, thats us.

It's better than nothing, for sure. It's gonna' be weird especially at first. And yeah, for home field advantage can they turn the crowd noise way high when the visiting team is on offense and quiet it for the home team?

I think they will do this because the crowd got louder on 3-2 counts and stuff

And with the premiere league it gets louder as the the players get closer to the net and scoring. So far, from what I've seen, no one is taking advantage and pipping in loud crowd noise thats not usually there. That would backfire anyway. It would make it weirder that it already is.

I think even in the best case scenario for the upcoming season there will be no fans in attendance.

Won't need the mic'd up because you will be able to hear everything going on the field without crowd noise.

Did it? This is going to be interesting.

The noise was added to the TV broadcast, it's not being played through the stadium sound system.

They had an option where if you didn't want to listen to the noise you could use their streaming channel, but it was a little weird. Whistles echoing through empty parks, lots of reverb when the ball was kicked, etc.

Oh, I see what you mean. That’s not as much fun.

There's going to be a whole lot of concession stand workers, custodians and security guards SOL this season.

The Black Mirror series on Netflix was prophetic.

I think the fans have a big impact in English football, but it's not bad to watch on TV. You only notice occasionally that the fans aren't actually there after a while.

I think the NFL will be harder, because the crowd noise is more dynamic and instantaneous. With the games I was talking about, they have a pretty standard backing track of noise that involves the home team's songs and chants. They did some clever things where they blended in fan displeasure when a decision went against them or the sound of shock or cheering when appropriate. I think it will be harder to make it realistic in the NFL unless they are using some kind of a delay.

I'm not sure that's true in all cases. I could be wrong, but I heard one of the reasons MLB added crowd noise (in the stadium, not only on the broadcast) was because hitters could hear the catcher moving around and know if he was setting up on the inside or outside the plate.