Rams WR Cooper Kupp calls fake crowd noise at SoFi Stadium ‘extremely irritating’

The 2020 NFL season is going to be different. It will be unlike anything the players, fans, and coaches have ever seen or dealt with before. The empty stadiums will result in a different atmosphere on the field on Sundays. The Los Angeles Rams got their first taste of playing in their brand new multi-billion-dollar SoFi Stadium recently. They weren’t fond of the new experience.

Rams head coach Sean McVay was particularly unhappy with the pumped in fake crowd. The NBA has been using this tactic in the bubble they created in Orlando, Florida, but McVay wasn’t pleased with the way things went during his team’s scrimmage recently as he told reporters, via OC Register.

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“I don’t know about you guys, but how irritating was that constant crowd noise that just never stopped?” McVay said.

“That’s not how crowds are. They don’t just consistently sustain that noise. My eardrums, and then the frustration from the communication issues, I was ready to lose my mind yesterday,” McVay said, referring to unrelated glitches with the Rams coaches’ headsets that compounded the trouble hearing.

Sean McVay’s displeasure in how things went down at SoFi Stadium during their scrimmage was well documented. As well as that, star wide receiver Cooper Kupp also had a bone to pick with the fake crowd noise.

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“In terms of the crowd noise, it was extremely irritating, but I didn’t notice it until – it was kind of like white noise until I realized that it was crowd noise,” he said. “Then I couldn’t stop hearing it. It was like, you want to talk to someone, but you couldn’t because you realize there’s this white noise just drowning out anything you wanted to say. It was fine until unfortunately I noticed that it was the crowd noise, it was very irritating.”

Much like the NBA and MLB with their situations, it will be an ongoing process to see what works and what doesn’t ahead of the 2020 NFL season. The Rams clearly don’t like the direction it is going thus far. However things can change before things get underway in a few week’s time.