Since a lawsuit was filed in 2006 by three hearing-impaired fans, the Washington Redskins have been captioning game announcements, public service spots, and a variety of advertisements on a few small screens placed near midfield. Now, however, a federal judge has ruled that in order for the deaf fans to get the full experience of the game, they must also caption out “music with lyrics” being played inside the stadium. Which means that someone, hilariously, will have to type out every “Who!” in “Who Let the Dogs Out?”

(”Do YOU know who let the dogs out?”)

The ruling is important because, while the Redskins have been doing this out of the goodness of their hearts over the past few years - and because they didn’t want to be seen as hearcist -  they’re now FORCED to caption nearly everything that goes on in the stadium. And because of that, other teams around the league might be forced to become more hearing-impaired-friendly.
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