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Patriots vs. Bills: Bills May Have Broken the Rules

In their efforts to become the loudest stadium of all time, the folks manning the PA system over in Buffalo may have crossed the line.

This past August, the NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams reminding was was and was not allowable regarding artificial noise pumped on through a stadium's loudspeakers. After the Atlanta Falcons were caught generating artificial crowd noise when the opposing team was on offense in order to gain a competitive advantage (you may remember reading about it nonstop for months on end) and fined $350,000 and a fifth round draft pick, the league made a special point to let all teams know that there were guidelines in place regarding what you can and cannot do to visiting offenses in terms of stadium noise.