We’re learning quite a bit about fan options in a COVID-19 world.

Maybe we’ll have actual human beings in the seats when North American sports return, but overseas they’ve tried cardboard cutouts and sex dolls (accidentally). Broadcasters are also messing around with fake crowd noise, which is controlled by some guy sitting there with a soundboard.

Here’s another creative measure, from Danish soccer team Aarhus:

It’s a massive video board with more than 500 Zoom meetings routed in.

Henry Bushnell at Yahoo Sports had more specific details in an article written before the game:

“…on the side of the field opposite broadcast cameras, AGF will erect a three-piece video board. It’s over 9 feet tall and 131 feet wide. It can fit 200 fans’ faces at once. In a control center, around 50 moderators, or “digital stewards,” will monitor the Zoom rooms, toggle between them, and choose 10 or 11 of the chat rooms to display on the big screen for short stints at a time. Throughout the match, each fan should get more than two minutes on the video board — unless they act up.

“If you’re behaving not according to the rules,” Carlsen says, “then you will be thrown out of the Zoom meeting.”

We could try this in Philadelphia, but fans would have to behave themselves. No throwing snow balls at Santa Claus. No piss bags and batteries. And no fighting Mike Scott in the parking lot.