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It's only fair to post on the scoreboard the summary of each play that gets announced to the crowd--in fact, the scoreboard version is sometimes easier to understand than the announced version, even for hearing fans.
But the songs played during time-outs and halftime are hardly crucial to an understanding of the game. Indeed, many fans find the constant blasting of music distracting and annoying and may even envy the deaf for being able to focus more purely on the game.
The idea, pushed by the deaf fans in their suit, that the Redskins have 'not made FedExField fully accessible to deaf and hard of hearing fans' because they don't post song lyrics is so picayune, so petty as to drive other fans to wonder whether the motive is really to enjoy the game or merely to harass the team's owner.
More important, however, the court's ruling threatens every public performance by a sports team, musical group, theatrical troupe or any other artistic endeavor. If, as the deaf fans argue, it is 'discrimination' against them to stage a pro football game without putting the lyrics of every song up on the scoreboard, then the same reasoning would force concert halls to post lyrics as singers sing them. Would movie theaters have to erect a second screen on which to flash the lyrics of any song used in the background of a movie? Must stage companies now tear audiences' attention away from the actors by putting up screens spelling out the lyrics of incidental music, or of a song that a character might break into as part of the play?
Amazingly, Williams concluded that the deaf fans 'suffered injuries because they did not have access to music captioning and because information allegedly was not being effectively communicated to them.' The judge did concede that the Redskins made 'reasonable efforts' to accommodate the fans who complained
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