Should the NFL Competition Committee Look into Seahawks Noise Advantage

NFL fans should be pretty pumped up about tonight's Seahawks 49ers game. It pits last years NFC champions versus a great Seattle team. Its a huge NFC West battle and comes with the addition of the Pete Caroll-Jim Harbaugh rivalry plus the Richard Sherman thing.

But strangely, I am not looking forward to the game. Most non Seahawk fans do not enjoy their teams trips to Seattle since the advent of their noise box stadium in 2002. You can look forward to your team committing a bunch of false starts and to struggling on offense because it will not be able to effectively audible at the line of scrimmage. Further you can count on your team being less effective at running the ball because your O-Line will not hear the snap count.

NFC teams have learned to not judge themselves against the Seahawks on the road. CenturyLink field is the equivalent of Tiger and Phil teeing it up on the mini-putt course. I mean who cares which guy is better at the windmill hole or who can most efficiently navigate the clown's mouth.  Lets just get on to the next competition at a real venue.

This is not just pre-game whining by a Niners fan. Here are the stats. Don't mean to go all Nate Silver on you, but the Seahawks have a 10 point home field point differential advantage. The league average is 5 points.

The chart to support this data is below. Seahawks season home point differential is 79.6 points. Since there are 8 home games, their per game advantage is 9.95 points.

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Every team expects road games to be in a hostile environment and have to tough it out. But Century Link field tips in too far.