I am pretty irritated by the special exemptions the SEC gives out, since they are by nature unfair. Miss. State gets to have cowbells, and why does no one mention that LSU always gets to play Alabama at night during home games? We know the ordinary game time for CBS games, but we also know LSU wants to play that game at night.The cowbells are actually an exemption that the SEC has made to the no noisemakers policy.
I do. First, once upon a time there could be a penalty for home teams making too much noise. Eventually though, they figured out that fans enjoyed cheering and being part of the game so they allowed that. The artificial noisemaker rule is a good one, and should be completely enforced by the way (I even saw idiot Miss. State fans bringing in bottles full of coins at Alabama). If you've ever been in a stadium full of people blowing whistles, you'll understand the artificial noisemaker rule. Anyway, by limiting things to what a human being has the capacity to do, you have a reasonable limitation on how far they can go. If you don't limit that, what can happen? As has been mentioned you can have strobe lights, and laser pointers, and things of that nature.Call me simplistic but I don't see any difference in lights than the home crowd making so much noise it interferes with the visiting team hearing the signal. We seem to think that is fair, so why not other disruptive things?
No, fans shouldn't be allowed to do anything conceivable to disrupt the opposing team, heck if they could why not just pepper spray the opponents or something?
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