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Atlanta Falcons fined $350,000, lose 2016 draft pick for using fake noise
Team president McKay also suspended from NFL Competition Committee
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Atlanta Falcons team president Rich McKay will be suspended from the NFL Competition Committee beginning April 1. - photo by John Raoux
ATLANTA — In the midst of two losing seasons, the Atlanta Falcons tried to pump up the noise. It's going to cost them. The NFL announced Monday that it had fined the team $350,000, stripped away a draft pick and suspended team president Rich McKay from the league's powerful Competition Committee for at least three months after the Falcons conceded pumping artificial crowd noise into the Georgia Dome.
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