49ers fan to Seahawks' 12th Man: Pipe down or lose home games

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Wow.. I have tons of respect for the Niners, but what a bunch of whiny little shits a few of their fans can be...

[div class="excerpt"SEATTLE -- At least two San Francisco 49ers fans think they have a simple solution to help their team win next time they come to Seattle to play the Seahawks: Tell the fans to shut up or else.

The Seahawks' "12th Man" was in full form during Sunday night's 29-3 pasting of the 49ers at CenturyLink Field, not only shattering the 49ers' ear drums but also shattering the Guinness World Record for the loudest crowd ever at 136.6 decibels.

But for Judy Spelman and Rick Schiller of Point Reyes Station, Calif., the crowd noise was not just an advantage for the Seahawks, but an unfair one.

"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?" the pair wrote in a Letter to the Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday.
http://www.komonews.com/sports/49ers-fan-suggests-Seahawks-12th-Man-pipe-down-or-forfeit-home-games-224263391.html

Unsportsmanlike conduct in Seattle
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.

Judy Spelman, Rich Schiller,

Point Reyes Station

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1. LMAO!

(No word on whether they would also ask that the Seahawks' defense to stop trying to catch all those Colin Kaepernick passes that were clearly intended for a member of the 49ers receiving core, because that's stealing and not very nice either.)

[Auggie]

2. Saw that in the letters section ... hilarious

I've wondered if it's satire

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3. The more I read it, the more I wonder..

Might very well be a damned good "Poe"...

[Jamaal510]

4. Hell, they might as well

stop allowing fans to attend games, then, if we're going to complain about crowd noise. That is what fans go to games for--to cheer on their team and demoralize the visitor.

[hughee99]

5. I'm personally embarrassed for 49ers fans and Point Reyes Station

I would like to give props to the posters (presumably some are SF fans) who rightfully ridiculed this pair on the web site where this was originally printed.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-17-4819523.php

[Iggo]

6. They already tried that, Judy.

Didn't work.

[trumad]

7. Back in the day--The Orange Bowl had a serious 12th Man

The closed end of the stadium was murder on opposing teams.

We once sent Ron Jaworski back the huddle 7 times because they could not hear. He finally got the snap and threw an INT.

Good memories of that old dump.

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8. Shula era, right? I remember that vaguely. (Was just getting into sports then)..

The 'Phins were definitely fierce back then.

[trumad]

9. Yep---when the Phins consistently won games.

The OB was very loud.

[opiate69]

10. Lots of history in that stadium.. have they finished the memorial at the new park?

Commemorative marker[edit source | editbeta]

As part of the new Marlins Park, Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places have commissioned Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture to design a public artwork to commemorate the Miami Orange Bowl. Their project uses the letters from the original "Miami Orange Bowl" sign as the basis for the 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) orange concrete letters rearranged across the east plaza of the new ballpark so that they form new words as visitors move around them.[14]

Sounds like it'd be kinda cool to see.

[trumad]

11. I bought an end zone seat that proudly hangs on my den wall.

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12. kick-ass!

My wife's manager has a chunk from the original Yankee stadium in his giant Yankee shrine at the lounge...I would have liked to have gotten a piece of the Kingdome, but, shit.. it was the fucking Kingdome lol.