# LA TV Replacing Raiders Preseason Games with SB Wins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917 "2020-09-06T02:59:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/1 "2020-09-06T02:59:47Z")

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…and I couldnt be happier. I know this is mundane and pointless but so is NFL games without fans,

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/2 "2020-09-06T03:24:39Z")

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There is no preseason this year, so…🤷‍♂️?

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/3 "2020-09-06T03:39:58Z")

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I love it. Its great to see classic games with so many legendary players.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/4 "2020-09-06T14:15:27Z")

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The only thing fans bring to a telecast is crowd noise. Noise I’d rather not hear while trying to listen to the commentation.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/5 "2020-09-06T16:23:07Z")

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Fans bring adrenaline rushes to both players and viewers. Sports are a social event imo.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-tv-replacing-raiders-preseason-games-with-sb-wins/919917/6 "2020-09-06T16:33:54Z")

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Being there certainly is a social event and being in the crowd is part of the attraction of going.

But for watching on TV I want to pay attention to the game play and / or (pPre-COVID) the yakyak with my fellow party-goers / couch sitters.

IMO/IME the loud white noise of the crowd simply detracts from what _I_ want out of their telecast. I can recognize a great play without a roar of pumped-in white noise, thank you.

Then again I despise laugh tracks too; I can figure out what’s funny without help, thank you.

Certainly YMMV applies.

I suspect the show producers have data that more crowd noise sells more advertising. Otherwise why would they bother to pump it into the broadcast? Even in a pre-COVID live crowd situation, the noise we hear on TV is not just whatever happens to be picked up by the commentators’ mikes; it’s deliberately mixed in at a target volume by the controllers in the trailer.