Gary Tanguay: Nothing wrong with adding fake crowd noise to broadcasts

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Fake crowd noise? Fake fans?

WTF!

Hey, mind out of the gutter. It stands for What The Fake!

Are you really upset about this? I saw Felger on NBC Sports Boston this afternoon say his intelligence was insulted.

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Come on, dude. Seriously?

In our society we have fake…

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Hair
Faces
Breasts (Men and Women)
Gold
Silver
Platinum
Rolexes
Diamonds
Hamburgers (Plant-based burgers are not real burgers.)
Milk
Cheese
Sugar
A variety of other non-dairy dairy products
Diet Coke is really fake Coke. No one would drink a diet soda without having a real one first.
Beer
Leather
Fur
Field Turf
Actors
Sun Lamps
Christmas Trees
Christmas Wreaths
Radio and Television On-Air Talent
Digitized Musical Instruments
Politicians
WWE
Home Run records

and...

Mall Santas. (The real big fella only makes one appearance a year)

My point is our society is built on artificialness. Pumping in crowd noise with virtual fans would not be out of our norm.

No one is trying to insult anyone, Felgy. They are just trying to add the experience of the games we all want back in a time when it really sucks to be a sports fan.

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