ATLANTA -- For the first time this week, the Rams piped music into their practice to prepare for noise Sunday inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.



And the music piped in was only turned up to replicate “background noise.”



Feels like a possible misstep by the Rams and 33-year-old head coach Sean McVay.



It gets loud at the Super Bowl. Especially when your team’s fans are going to be decidedly outnumbered by the other team’s fans as appears to be the case on the streets of Atlanta.



“Typically what we do is we’ll really blare it depending on if we’re at home or away,” McVay told Charean Williams, who was the pool reporter for the Rams this week. “If we’re on the road, it’ll be blaring during offensive periods. If we’re at home, it’ll be during defensive periods. Now, in a static environment, we just kind of had it in the background. Hopefully there will be more Rams fans than Patriots, but you never know.”

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How loud can the crowd get at a Super Bowl? In the Broncos-Seahawks Super Bowl following the 2013 season, Peyton Manning couldn’t hear prior to the first play, nor could center Manny Ramirez. Their miscommunication led to a bungled snap and a safety that set the Broncos on a bad path.



And that was in MetLife Stadium, an open-air venue.



It’s not like that happened a decade ago either. It’s surprising nobody recalled that factor or - if they did - dismissed it.



Hope for the best but plan for the worst.

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