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Broncos will use fake crowd noise on Monday Night Football

The Broncos will pump in fake crowd noise when they host the Titans on Monday Night Football.

The Denver Broncos won’t have fans at Empower Field at Mile High when they host the Tennessee Titans on Monday Night Football in Week 1. It will sound like fans are at the stadium — both on TV and in person.

The NFL will allow teams that don’t have fans in attendance to pump in fake crowd noise this season.

“The crowd noise is fine,” Broncos coach Vic Fangio said on Sept. 8. “I actually think it kind of helps simulate the feel that you get from being in the stadium. Obviously, there’s no replacing the 70-plus-thousand fans and the energy they bring to it.

“I think what will be different than the two practices we had down there, and it will be very obvious to everyone, especially the players and us as coaches — once there’s another team in that stadium that we’re going against it will change the dynamics.”

Denver will be allowed to host a limited amount of fans when the Broncos face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 3.

“I think everybody will be looking forward to having the fans there,” safety Kareem Jackson said on Sept. 8. “Having fans is an added element of excitement. Not saying we won’t be excited Week 1 without having fans. Monday night is enough to get us going. It’ll be interesting to see.

“Obviously with the league noise — me and some of the guys were talking about it. It’s always a certain point throughout a play where everything goes silent and you’re locked in on your job. Whether it’s the league noise or fans, I don’t think it’ll matter. We still have to go out and execute as if the stadium was full.”

Monday’s game will be nationally televised on ESPN at 8:20 p.m. MT.

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Broncos will use fake crowd noise at stadium practice

The Broncos will use fake crowd noise at Saturday’s stadium practice.

With no preseason games this summer, the Broncos will try to simulate a game-like atmosphere during Saturday’s practice at Empower Field at Mile High. The practice session will include pumped-in crowd noise.

With many teams not allowing fans this season, the NFL is considering allowing fake crowd noise. The details still have to be ironed out but Denver will start the process on Saturday.

“We’re going to have — I’m not sure what the crowd noise rules are,” Broncos coach Vic Fangio said after practice Friday. “I’m hearing different things, but whatever they are, we’re going to have the crowd noise in there that I think you’re going to be allowed to use for stadiums that have no fans.

“Obviously, we’re doing it so our offense will experience it in the stadiums that we’re playing in with no fans. Then the defense will be able to experience the noise we’ll use at home games.”

Denver will not have a “scrimmage” on Saturday but the team will try to make the practice feel like a game as much as possible. Players will go through pregame warmups and run through kickoffs. The ball will be spotting at different parts of the field to start drives and the team will practice punts and field goals.

The Broncos will even simulate halftime, sending players into the locker room for a 10-minute break before coming back out to warm up.

“We’ll be in there for 10 minutes, come back out, let them get loose like they would have to in a real game, kick if off for the second half and repeat that same sequence,” Fangio said.

“[We’ll] put the ball in different spots to try and hit all the situations. I’ll control the down and distance a lot just to try and make sure we hit some situations that way. We’re going to try and make it as game-like as we can.”

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TV networks might add fake crowd noise to Broncos games this season

TV networks will likely add fake crowd noise to NFL games this fall.

The Broncos are preparing to host fans at Empower Field at Mile High this season but there’s no guarantee that federal and local authorities will sign off on attendance at NFL games this fall.

If fans aren’t allowed to attend games at Denver’s stadium, television networks might broadcast fake crowd noise to make the event sound more familiar to fans watching from home.

“Playing football in a 75,000-seat stadium without any fans is going to be odd if that were to happen,” Broncos president/CEO Joe Ellis said on July 28. “No question about it. Hopefully we can do some things to spice up the environment a little bit and add to the entertainment value of television minus fans, since they’ll be missing. No concrete plans. Some things have been talked about, but no concrete plans.”

Ellis indicated that there are “no concrete plans” but networks are already planning to air fake crowd noise.

Networks are “considering possibilities that include piped-in crowd noise, faux fans and maybe more eavesdropping and natural sound from field level than has ever been available to viewers,” according to USA TODAY’s Jarrett Bell.

American networks have already used fake crowd noise for soccer broadcasts this summer and it sounds pretty natural. Fans can likely expect similar results for NFL games this fall.

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