Too Quiet? NFL Player Says Fans Aren‘t Cheering in Football Stadiums Because They’re Playing With Their iPads
- Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:20pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Originally posted on Gizmodo by Casey Chan.
New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott has a notorious big mouth which sometimes causes him to spew crazytalk. But is saying the MetLife Stadium (AKA the old New Meadowlands Stadium) is too quiet because people are always on their iPads crazy? Not exactly!
Here’s what the vocal leader of the Jets defense said in full:
“I think the last stadium was a lot louder and maybe some of the die-hard fans can’t afford tickets any more. We have to challenge the people that’s in the stadium now to get off their iPads and tweets and represent the stadium and get loud and make it a home-field advantage for us.”
I think he’s right…well aside from the iPad part, who brings their iPad to a football game? Please don’t do that. But I remember when I used to go to stadiums pre-Twitter and pre-iPhone, I did something I don’t do anymore: I just paid attention to the game. Now? My phones out, I’m checking fantasy scores, I‘m scanning Twitter to see what’s happening elsewhere, I’m refreshing scores of other games, I’m multitasking because you know what? Watching a football game live means there’s A LOT of dead time. I don’t like dead time.
So fine, I’m guilty of not paying as close attention to the games these days. Does that make me less of a fan? Maybe but what do you want me to do? Check my iPhone at the gate? I rather just watch the game at home in beautiful HD then! [NY Daily News, Image Credit: upi.com]
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Comments (75)
Steev
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:46pmHmmm, technology has become the master – Now, just who, WHO mighta seen that one coming !
Report Post »stanbeck
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:50pmBoring!!!! The NFL is socialism at its best. All the teams are the same. They make the same amount of money they have the same talent of players and the same coaches go from team to team. One year he’s the head coach of this team and the next year you see him on another team coaching the offence or defense. So everybody knows each other style and know how to play against each other. And the players today have no heart. It’s all about the money and you can feel that when you watch them play. Boring!!!!
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:35pmunions will be the downfall of the USA. I will never support pro ball ever
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 1:03amI Love going to NFL games ! but here in Packer land you cant get tickets ! So the NFL SEASON TICKET …direct TV and a 48″ plasma is Rockin, No restroom lines, cheep beer, great snacks,
Report Post »comfortable recliner !…………….Priceless………………………………………………………………………………
Ruler4You
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 10:51amYou know something, Mr. NFL guy, you want to hear ‘cheering’? listen to yourself. The NFL is WAY over blown. If it wasn’t for the jobs it has created over the decades in broadcasting (for idiot retired players) and the union jobs of setting up and tearing down infrastructure for every game it would have died years ago.
The players are childish bores with aggression complexes, at least partially due to steroids abuse and endless hostility they have never been capable of controlling in themselves. They act out like tantrum throwing infantile pre-pubescents on the field and off. They are treated with kid gloves as though they have some redeeming social value. They are EXTREMELY over paid and generally display no fiscal control (surprise! no self control = no fiscal responsibility either).
Tax payers are EXPECTED to pay for giant elaborate monuments for them to “play” in. And if they don’t get what they want… good-bye! These are giant money making machines and they hold their local ‘neighbors’ hostage so they can earn a living?! Spare me, killer. I’m SICK to death of you and your like. “Pro” sports is nothing but a large collection of adult aged men who remain adolescents well into their 30s. A fraternity of annoying children.
It’s nearly impossible to believe these are graduates from university without considering that our universities are themselves the reason for such useless contribution to society. Get a real job.
Report Post »nomolibs
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 1:23pmit is socialism, but it is the perfect illistration as to why socialism doesnt work. there are no great teams everyone is average, its great for watching the games cuz there always competitive but there is no greatness in socialism only in a free trade capitalism.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 4:15pmSimple solution. Jam the things during the game play.
Report Post »biffo
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 6:42pmAffirmative action in pro sports would shut these millionaire criminals up.
Report Post »stanbeck
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:33pmIn the old stadiums the stands were closer to the field. Most of them were made out of steel instead of concrete so all you had to do is stomp and the noise was over bearing. Now the stadiums are all concrete and you’re a long way from the field. But most of all the game has changed. The NFL stopped promoting the game for real football fans and started going after people who never watched football at all. That’s why we real fans stopped watching. So there you have it you spoiled brat take your money and stop you’re whining.
Report Post »Tbone_2469
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:17pmOh for the love of the football gods!!! . . . another big mouth NFL player spewing nonsense. They play in New Jersey – right? Then they are the New Jersey Jets and the New Jersey Giants. There is only one NFL team that plays in NY and that is the Buffalo Bills. Maybe these fans on their iPads or iPhones are trying to figure that one out!
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:32pmLots of fans cheering at the hockey games and at the UFC still. Maybe football just sux.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 5:31amIpads rule.
Report Post »manster35
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:01pmThe game is not like it used to be. I still love it but it is not the same. I miss the 70‘s and 80’s of football. Men playing a game for the love of it and for far less money. The stadiums were safer and more family oriented. Now its a party atmosphere where the game seems secondary. I just don’t go much anymore. Too expensive, over payed players and too too much alcohol for the family to really enjoy the game.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 6:21pmRIght ON!
GONE is the time when we could take our family to every home game.
Hell, gone is the time when we could afford to take the family to a SINGLE game!
Rich companies buy up expensive seats, and the rest of us save and scrape to get a couple of tickets in the nosebleed section.
Thank you, NO.
I’ll sit at home with my SIXTY-INCH 3-D SONY MEGA-GIGANTIC-WONDERFUL-FANTASTIC-MAGIC television, in my undies if I want, and a big bowl of hot popcorn, with the WHOLE FAMILY, and I’ll have a much better view of the game. I’ll save the cost, I won’t have to pay to park 4 miles away, and I won’t have to hike an hour into and out of the game. I’ll be able to take a leak without standing in line for 40 minutes in a filthy, “stanky”, restroom that hasn’t had a roll of toilet paper in it for over four years!
NOPE !
I’ll keep my iPad at home with my family and my beau-tee-mus television.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:00pmWho cares what the fans are doing they paid your stupid high prices to watch the game get out there and do what you are paid to do and quit complaining about what the people who pay you do.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:22pmAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they just went from one God to another.. Footballs to Ipads?? Get over it!! Sheep that go baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:04pmThis is easy take there damn ipads from them!
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:23pmOh Booo Hooo somebody call a whambulance! “Whaa Whaaa… I make millions of dollars for playing a game and people that payed 600 dollars to watch one game are not cheering enough for me”!
Report Post »Oh the humanity!
Heres and idea. Ban the sport and shut down the whole thing. Only morons would care.
DragoonChris
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 5:00pmGreat idea! That’s called theft.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:52pmI have a friend with two young children (aged 2 and 4) and they can’t get her attention away from her phone either….. people are missing life glued to their phones.
Report Post »DHD
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:41pmExcuse me….but why don’t you just play and not worry a bout what others are doing? I think you get paid to play while the fans pay to be there.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:29pmLOL, I would need something a lot more interesting than an Ipod to get through watching a bunch of men fight over a little leather ball for hours on end.
My apologies to you sports fans but I am totally convinced that a nuclear bomb could blow the east coast off the map and you’d never hear about it until the game (and the “post game show”) was over. You can bet on one thing, the TV networks sure wouldn’t interrupt the game to report such an event.
Report Post »blkold7
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:22pmI stopped watching when the Real Racist spoke up against Rush Limbaugh thinking about buying into the St Louis Rams in which I speak of 70% of The Player’s Union. I only watch SEC Football now,no more Pro ever again
Report Post »Volfie
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:10pmSame writer as before that has serious problems with the English language. In the first sentence, “crazytalk” is used instead of “crazy talk.” Until I receive an e-mail explaining what procedures have been put in place to correct the shoddy “journalism” on The Blaze, I cannot waste my time with such low quality output.
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:01pmDon’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 1:08amGood News! So you’re leaving then. :-D
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:55pmYou overpaid union crybabies. I wouldn’t spend 2 cents to go to a game or even bother to watch one on tv. Blame it on whatever you want, I think this last lockout of you millionaire players really pi$$ed off America ! we’re hurting, if you haven’t noticed !!!
Report Post »p51d007
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:52pmOverpaid, underperforming idiots. People playing with their iPads? Maybe in this economy, which most NFL players are exempt from, don‘t understand we don’t have the 50 to 200 bucks to watch you idiots run around acting like a team, when in fact you are just a bunch of individuals wearing the same uniforms. I quit watching football, along with all sports in general, when they stopped becoming a sport and became nothing more than a business. The last couple of strikes rid my desire to watch sports. That, and a 2 hour football game takes over FOUR HOURS thanks to the endless commericals.
Report Post »cop4hire
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:44pmFunny. We don’t have a problem with too little fan noise here in Seattle. The 12th man does not need anyone to beg for noise. We will blow you out of the stadium. The only fans who think they are louder are the ones who have never been to a home game in Seattle. The NFL even had to do an investigation to see if our crowd noise was piped in. It is unbelievable!!
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:00pmAmen to that!!!
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 4:04pmLove to hear that.
Report Post »pazzo242
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:54pmAnd because we Seahawk fans are such loud mouths (that is a compliment up here) we have the highest number of false starts by the visiting teams than any other stadium. They can’t hear their own count.
The Seahawks are one of the few (very few) teams in the NFL that were penalized because the fans were too loud, see the LA Times, March 22, 1989. The more they penalized the louder we got and still haven’t kept quiet. Because THE Seahawk fans were so rabid the NFL caved and now everyone can be as obnoxious as we are. We may not have a championship team but we do have a championship crowd.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 7:26amSo the Seahawks have to rely on crowd noise to win a game. The pathetic Viqueens pump amplified crown noise into that army tent they call a stadium, to try and get an advantage too. Why not simply have better football eam to win.
Report Post »Spyder
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:35pmWhat is there to cheer about? The NFL has put so many rules in place to protect their players (i.e. Their Multi-Million Dollar Property) that the game is no longer an Iron-Man sport. Why do I want to watch a bunch of pansies run around a field chasing a ball. If I want to watch that I can turn on Soccer.
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:31pmI am not willing to pay the price of a ticket to an NFL game today. If I was willing and did attend a game, I sure as heck wouldn’t have my face in some screen instead of watching the game. I‘d want to get my money’s worth. I am amazed wherever I go today how tied to screens people are, be it their phones or pads. There is life going on all around them, and they choose to be addicted to texts, tweets, posts, games, etc.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:53pmI agree .. they are missing out on LIFE .. by being glued to their phones.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 7:28amAs opposed to being glued to a computer monitor commenting on some political blog…right?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on September 11, 2011 at 7:39am“Pro sports players are as bad or worse than hollywood liberal elite.” I don’t see many Hollywood elite visiting sick or dying children, or donating millions to charities, or any of the other charitable things many players do without looking for any recognition. I’m kind of surprised that some here that would call themselves conservatives, would begrudge someone the wages the market allows for their services. It sounds more like whiny Commie Democrats that attack someones paycheck due to envy.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:00pmI saw Emmitt Smith on Hannity last night and on just about every issue,Sean made Emmitt admit that he sided with the conservative viewpoint but Emmitt was determined to state that he was a democrat….A lot of people have been brainwashed to vote against their better judgement and against their well being.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 3:23pmSome of them are also schizophrenic. They recite liberal mantras that they really don’t believe, often just to get ahead, and then get angry at people who have the courage to stand up disagree with them.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:56pmAs long as the tickets are being sold and they are getting paid, why should they care if people cheer or not.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 2:16pmMaybe if the players would start throwing $100 dollar bills into the stands the fans would scream louder and more often.
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:54pmIs this the same player that said the jails would be full if there wasn’t a football season? There are two real sports that were here before sticks and balls, bull fighting and bull riding not BSing and star dancing.
Report Post »German Dude
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:51pmGive back some of the money you are overpaid, and maybe I can afford a ticket.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:58pmMan. There are A LOT of broke-ass Losers on The Blaze. Maybe you should rethink how this whole Conservative thing is working out for you.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:45pmWho cares??? I DON’T!!!!
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:35pmNo, It‘s because the real football fans can’t afford season tickets anymore. The people in the stands now go to the games just to get drunk and brag to friends that they can afford tickets. Corporations own many of the seats and hand tickets out to employees. It’s just not the same.
Back in the day when teams had loyalty to their coaches and players and fans lived for the game, it was loud and fun. When the opposing offence was on the field it was time to make some noise.
Report Post »conservative_teacher
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:30pmThe egos of these professional athletes is astounding. First they threaten to not play if they don’t make more money for playing with a piece of pigskin, now they want the fans to scream louder? Like those in Hollywood, they have an insatiable appetite for recognition. It’s pathetic.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:34pmYou’re right. They remind me of teachers.
Report Post »conservative_teacher
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:43pmEat me, Model82A1.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:46pmNO it is not PATHETIC is is normal for those that have led a privileged existence. They have been coddled since HS through College and then into the NFL or should it be NRL since this game they call football has nothing to do with what the name implies. This is a game more related to Rugby than to FutBol.
And what they deem a “Super Bowl” is nothing more than a Decorated Toilet Bowl lately with torn bras and other sexually deemed entertainment, throw in some Politically Correct Activism and now you have a Super Infomercial.
I have been to one game in my life and that is because tickets have always been just too expensive for me, I was given two tickets to a playoff game when I bought a used car from a local Seattle dealership so I took a friend and we lost our voices in the first five minutes of the game.
And with today’s prices I prefer to watch Fox Soccer and the “REAL Football”.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on September 10, 2011 at 1:54pmPro sports players are as bad or worse than hollywood liberal elite. I would not support them in a million years. I don’t follow them. I don’t waste my time, and I do not get excited about something a stranger did that will never ever EVER affect history in any way shape or form.
I have much more important things to do with my life.
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