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Crowd noise during Kentucky-Missouri football game pushes TV viewers to brink

Herald-Leader Staff Report

Updated October 25, 2020 7:02 AM

Game day: Missouri 20, Kentucky 10

Click below for more of the Herald-Leader’s and Kentucky.com’s coverage of Saturday’s Kentucky-Missouri football game at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo.

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Viewers taking in Saturday’s Kentucky at Missouri college football game were saddled with an unexpected annoyance.

The crowd noise during the TV broadcast on the SEC Network led to a continual stream of complaints from those watching the game held at Missouri’s Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium in Columbia.

Whether fake noise created for the broadcast, natural sound inside the stadium or some combination of both, the background shriek was compared to everything from a flock of angry birds to a broken belt in an engine.

Missouri’s crowds have been limited to 25 percent of stadium capacity this season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the season began, an ESPN executive said Missouri games could include enhanced noise created for the broadcast in addition to natural sound inside the stadium and artificial sound created on site.

Viewers pleaded on Twitter with the SEC Network to please make it stop. When that had no effect, fans largely turned to humor.

Here is a sampling.

The fake crowd noise in Missouri on @SECNetwork is nauseating watching it on tv
— Robert Jose (@theRobertJose9) October 24, 2020

@SECNetwork for the love of God mute the crowd mics on the Missouri uk game the crowd noise just sounds like a screech.
— Claydar (@clay_dar) October 24, 2020

Fun Fact: The Missouri stadium-crowd-noise track is what they play at Gitmo to keep detainees from sleeping.
— Chet Lemond (@ChetLemond) October 24, 2020

Missouri crowd noise sounds like a bad a/c belt . #BBN
— Pouncing Coder Brad (@bradcundiff) October 24, 2020

@SECNetwork The pitch of this game crowd noise at Missouri is unbearable over the airwaves. Please do something about it.
— Alex Kain (@akain) October 24, 2020

The piped in crowd noise at Missouri is extremely annoying. What are they doing? #Mizzou
— Kansas City Sports Monitor (@KCSportsMonitor) October 24, 2020

The fake crowd noise at the UK game is the WORST. Missouri sounding like a high pitched, single-tone wind tunnel!
— Scott Harvey (@RamblinHarvey) October 24, 2020

Missouri crowd noise

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— Chad Mask (@chadmask_msu) October 24, 2020

What is the noise in the background of Kentucky-Missouri? It’s not the band and it’s not the crowd, because you can hear those separately.
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) October 24, 2020

I’m gonna hear this stupid Missouri crowd noise in my sleep.
— girls beer sports podcast (@grlsbeersports) October 24, 2020

I finally figured out what that annoying Missouri artificial crowd noise sounds like. #BBN #UKvsMIZ #GoCats pic.twitter.com/KPWQse8lvM
— Danny Davis (@Pastor3D) October 24, 2020

This story was originally published October 24, 2020 at 5:54 PM.