Old rule question

was a rule briefly, that the home team could be penalized for crowd noise. utter BS.

Anybody ever witness this in a stadium? I would think it would make the crowd louder. That rule defeats the purpose of even going to a game

Very interesting. I hadn't heard of this before.

Per Wikipedia this rule may have been abolished relatively recently: LINK

In the "Rules changes for 2006" section:
The referee may no longer stop the game due to excessive crowd noise.

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"Rules changes for 2006"

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...that reminds me of a clock change that year. 2006 changed to: clock starts, on a free kick, when the ball is kicked.

I think I remember it was Baylor, who went up by a couple of points with less than a minute to play in a game. The coach told his kicker to kick it out of bounds and keep kicking it out of bounds until the clock ran out.

People went nuts, but he simply used the rule to his benefit. Next year that got rid of that change.

I believe a big 10 team did that too. Minn? Possibly

There was this retarded rule in the late 80's/early 90's that the home team could get a penalty if there was too much crowd noise when the opponent was at the line trying to make calls.

The refs would warn the crowd to be quiet and if they didn't the home team would get a penalty.

This absolutely retarded rule lasted like 2-3 years.

I remember it distinctly because the opening game in 1993 I was at the Alabama/Tulane game and Tulane had the ball pinned at their own 1 and the crowd was making a ton of noise and Tulane QB indicated he couldn't hear and the ref warned the crowd to stop making noise which just made the crowd even louder, the ref just ignored him the 2nd time.

The twist ending to this story? The Tulane RB got outside on that very play and ran 99 yards for a TD.

We won 31-17 anyway.