PBA limits use of vuvuzuelas

Following clamor from irritated fans, PBA commissioner Atty. Chito Salud limited the use of vuvuzuelas and air horns in the General Admission section only in all playing venues starting in the do-or-die double header this Sunday.
Salud swiftly acted on the league's TV partner AKTV's formal complaint last night that the irritant noise is drowning the color commentary of the games – drawing the ire of the fans, some of whom aired their concern on social media.
"If @PBAonAKTV is concern with their televiewers, then they should act on those annoying sounds of vuvuzuela," said one of the many visibly irritated fans (@pau1h) on Twitter last night.
Meralco Bolts' fans were the first to use the cheering equipment, which gained popularity in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
B-Meg Llamados team governor Rene Pardo appealed to disallow the use of the noisemaking gadgets after Game One of their best-of-three quarterfinal series but was rebuffed.
"I appealed to the PBA office to disallow the use of the horns by Meralco but they said there was no rule against its use," Pardo posted on his Facebook account last night.
In retaliation to Meralco fans' use of vuvuzuelas, B-Meg fans brought in their own air horns doubling the decibel of the irritating noise in the coliseum.
This prompted television partner AKTV to formally write the league to stop the use of the of those noise equipment.

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