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Report: NFL to take draft pick from Falcons
The NFL is expected to suspend Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay from the competition committee and take a draft pick from the team for pumping artificial crowd noise into the Georgia Dome.
Sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Monday that the NFL could also place heavy fines on the Falcons. The league is expected to officially hand down the discipline no later than Tuesday.
The organization was accused in 2013 and 2014 of using fake crowd noise in an apparent attempt to make it more difficult for opponents’ offenses to call signals. The league has been investigating the claim since November.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank previously acknowledged the wrongdoing.
“I think what we’ve done in 2013 and 2014 was wrong,” Blank said last month. “Anything that affects the competitive balance and fairness on the field, we’re opposed to, as a league, as a club and as an owner. It’s obviously embarrassing, but beyond embarrassing, it doesn’t represent our culture and what we’re about.”
McCay is the chairman of the NFL Competition Committee, which is in charge of overseeing the league’s rules. He spent most of last week at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix as the lead spokesman for the committee.
The Falcons, 6-10 overall in 2014, had a 3-4 record at the Georgia Dome, including being routed by the Carolina Panthers 34-3 in the season finale for the NFC South Division title. The Falcons played one “home” game in London.
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