Let's Break the World Record as Loudest Stadium

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At the risk of having my fandom questioned- people in the upper deck should remain seated. Always.

Stomping your feet up there creates a deafening effect. We did this against Bama in the early 90s and it was the loudest game I've been to. I'd say 80% of the upper deck was participating. I couldn't hear Bobby Denton and I was sitting by a speaker
 
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SouthernSmoke said:
Fans waving their arms up and down during '3rd Down For What' doesn't disrupt opposing offenses and is getting really annoying. I saw some (on TV) doing it yesterday. Banging your fists on your seat or something would be better than that.
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Who said anything about waving hands? Im talking about everyone getting as loud as they can to disrupt the opposing offenses communication. It definitely has an effect.
 
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MurphyVol said:
At the risk of having my fandom questioned- people in the upper deck should remain seated. Always.

Stomping your feet up there creates a deafening effect. We did this against Bama in the early 90s and it was the loudest game I've been too. I'd say 80% of the upper deck was participating. I couldn't hear Bobby Denton and I was sitting by a speaker
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I agree stomp your feet,clap and yell all out on defense! The 6 overtime game vs Arkansas ,I thought stadium was falling!! Loudest I ever witnessed. GO VOLS GO!
 
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SouthernSmoke said:
Fans waving their arms up and down during '3rd Down For What' doesn't disrupt opposing offenses and is getting really annoying. I saw some (on TV) doing it yesterday. Banging your fists on your seat or something would be better than that.
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100% this. I was hoping they would limit the music to certain situations instead of playing it every 3rd down during the game, but I guess not. I've already heard it enough for one season after last night. I have no problem with the actual music, but they drive it in the ground by playing it over and over again. I would much rather our fans be loud and disrupting the opposing offense instead of dancing with their hands in the air. I also noticed last year that Neyland doesn't appear to put any "get loud" or "make some noise" slogans on the score boards during the game. Maybe I'm wrong, but that could be helpful. If fans can dance and wave their hands while screaming then I'm all for the music.

I guess one positive is that the guys on the field seem to get pumped to it.
 
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Nationdom said:
I bet you think 7 wins is a successful season too.
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How is that a comeback for this? The stadium just has a much older architecture (a much more open design, that was built more around increasing the total number of people in the stands) as opposed to the architecture of newer stadiums, designed more towards trapping the noise produced.

- The Kansas City Chiefs set the record at 142.2 decibels last year with only an attendance 76,613.
- The Seattle Seahawks set the previous record of 137.6 decibels in 2013 with an attendance of 63,867.
- The numbers I had found about our stadium have ranged from 95,000 in 2013 producing 97 decibels, to producing 110 decibels with 102,455, to producing 115 decibels in 2007 (meaning 104k/105k, at maximum an attendance of 107,052). (edit: the last one was a piece of information that I had gotten from an older thread on the message board and has been disproven)

Putting more people in there just doesn't make it the loudest (especially with how the stadium is built).
 
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Nationdom said:
Let's get the record even if the design says we cant
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Presuming you could just pass it with the number of people being loud (and making the math more basic than the relationship likely is), based on previous numbers about the decibel levels in Neyland stadium in past games, the stadium would need to have between at best somewhere around 119,000 to at most almost 130,000 or 131,000 noisy adults in there all at once.


Good luck fitting that many at once into our stadium for a game, though.
 
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Maybe we need some crazy noisemakers that they use at those worldcup matches. I hate using soccer as an example. But, maybe we could break it that way. I want the TV announcers to say this is the loudest stadium they have ever heard and if there is any recruits there we want them thinking this place rocks.
 
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CDCman said:
I am puzzled at how a pro football stadium that seats far less than our beloved Neyland Stadium has the world record for loudest stadium (Kansas City Chiefs). They only seat 79,451 and Neyland seats 102,455. So lets not only Checkerboard the stadium lets be the loudest, eardrum bustin, screaming our guts out crowd ever and break the world record.

"Kansas City Chiefs break Seahawks' loudest stadium record. Kansas City Chiefs fans' broke Seattle Seahawks' fans' record of having the loudest outdoor stadium by creating 142.2 decibels worth of noise at Arrowhead Stadium Monday night.Sep 29, 2014"

Let's make history. Bring every noise making thing that can think of and show the Sooner fateful what a real stadium noise is. Let's bring back intimidation to our great football stadium! Go Vols!!!!!
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I was at this game, I feel like neyland has been and could be louder.
 
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TrueOrange said:
How is that a comeback for this? The stadium just has a much older architecture (a much more open design, that was built more around increasing the total number of people in the stands) as opposed to the architecture of newer stadiums, designed more towards trapping the noise produced.

- The Kansas City Chiefs set the record at 142.2 decibels last year with only an attendance 76,613.
- The Seattle Seahawks set the previous record of 137.6 decibels in 2013 with an attendance of 63,867.
- The numbers I had found about our stadium have ranged from 95,000 in 2013 producing 97 decibels, to producing 110 decibels with 102,455, to producing 115 decibels in 2007 (meaning 104k/105k, at maximum an attendance of 107,052).

Putting more people in there just doesn't make it the loudest (especially with how the stadium is built).
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Thanks , that info is actually what I came to this thread for .
 
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Those of you criticizing the “passivity” of older Tennessee fans fundamentally misunderstand the mindset of those you derisively refer to as “blue hairs.” In rectifying that fallacy, please understand that the following remarks are made half in jest and half in all seriousness. The "gray beard” contingent is simply honoring a precedent established by Neyland. In the documentary, “General Robert Neyland: ‘The Man and the Legend,'" Jim Haslam related an anecdote (fast-forward to roughly the 14:30 mark of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWJgoBZTeM) pertaining to the 1950 Alabama game, which Tennessee won, 14-9. After the game, a sportswriter asked Neyland, “Bob, at the end of the game, you were sitting there on the bench and everybody else was jumping around in the last minute and you were so calm. How did you do that?” General Neyland looked at the man and said very slowly, “I had prepared my team for any contingency and there was nothing left for me to do but sit back and watch them execute.”

As a result, older Tennessee fans have watched Tennessee win a LOT of games. They possess not hope, nor expectations, but supreme confidence in ultimate victory, which was bred into them by the excellence established by Neyland. For them, like Neyland, there “[is] nothing left to do but sit back and watch [our team] execute.”
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
Those of you criticizing the “passivity” of older Tennessee fans fundamentally misunderstand the mindset of those you derisively refer to as “blue hairs.” In rectifying that fallacy, please understand that the following remarks are made half in jest and half in all seriousness. The "gray beard” contingent is simply honoring a precedent established by Neyland. In the documentary, “General Robert Neyland: ‘The Man and the Legend,'" Jim Haslam related an anecdote (fast-forward to roughly the 14:30 mark of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWJgoBZTeM) pertaining to the 1950 Alabama game, which Tennessee won, 14-9. After the game, a sportswriter asked Neyland, “Bob, at the end of the game, you were sitting there on the bench and everybody else was jumping around in the last minute and you were so calm. How did you do that?” General Neyland looked at the man and said very slowly, “I had prepared my team for any contingency and there was nothing left for me to do but sit back and watch them execute.”

As a result, older Tennessee fans have watched Tennessee win a LOT of games. They possess not hope, nor expectations, but supreme confidence in ultimate victory, which was bred into them by the excellence established by Neyland. For them, like Neyland, there “[is] nothing left to do but sit back and watch [our team] execute.”
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I knew you were trying to blue-font us. Nice try.
 
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White Bread said:
I was at this game, I feel like neyland has been and could be louder.
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It has not.

Remember, though, it's not a consistently held decibel level put a peak. If it were around 142.2 the entire game, you and others would have hearing problems...probably pretty early into the game.
 
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As a Chiefs and Vols fan, Neyland would be the only other stadium that I'd like to see hold that record. That being said, it will never happen. Arrowhead's design holds the sound in, making the field the loudest part of the stadium. Neyland's design allows a lot of the sound to travel out of the stadium.
 
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Neyland stadium is more enclosed and vertical than Arrowhead stadium is. I think it's possible to do. You can never know unless you try. Lets get everyone to buy in to the idea and try before we say it cant be done. Be loud and classy both.
 
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CDCman said:
Neyland stadium is more enclosed and vertical than Arrowhead stadium is. I think it's possible to do. You can never know unless you try. Lets get everyone to buy in to the idea and try before we say it cant be done. Be loud and classy both.
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Even if it was, we'd need a ton more people.


105-107 thousand only got us to a presumed peak of 115 decibels (edit: this one was a piece of information that I had gotten from an older thread on the message board and has been disproven), 102 thousand only reached at highest 110 db.


The number of adults we'd need in that stadium is well more than it would hold for a game (even if it were oversold).
 
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TrueOrange said:
Even if it was, we'd need a ton more people.


105-107 thousand only got us to a peak of 115 decibels, 102 thousand only reached at highest 110 db.


The number of adults we'd need in that stadium is well more than it would hold for a game (even if it were oversold).
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Please just stop. If everyone in the stadium yelled their loudest at the same time it would break any record.
 
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How about it just being dang loud!!!! Loud as it can or has ever been!!!!! Record be damned! Go Big Orange!!!!!
 
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Nationdom said:
Please just stop. If everyone in the stadium yelled their loudest at the same time it would break any record.
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Except it wouldn't.

They clearly did that at the end of the 2004 UF game and (most likely) the 2007 UGA game, and it didn't.
 
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Bobby Bowden, when asked about one stadium being lowder than the other, said if you can't hear in one place and you go to another place and its louder...well you still can't hear.

I think too much is made of crowd impact. Sure, it can impact a few plays. Typically, the more talented team wins.

People blame our "blue hairs" when the program hasn't given us anything to cheer about in a decade.

Our last AD fired a 150 win coach. I won't wade into the shoulds or should not haves on that issue. But he replaced him with a 5 win coach.

He then replaced him with yet another coach that had an overall losing record. I mean, what are we a FCS school??

Then we hire an older, not exactly dynamic AD who in turn hires a mid major coach. Not judging just yet, just saying the jury is still out on these two.

Yet every year we have 100k show up for the home opener. We haven't beaten UF in 10 years. Alabama recently beat us by 31 in 3 straight seasons.

Yet we still show up. You can't convince me we don't have the most loyal fans in the world.

Let us go into the 4th quarter in a tight game with UGA this year and see if your still think we aren't loud.

Win... be competitive and the volume will be back.
 
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At this moment, the floors rumbled.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_2leQ-1Ew[/youtube]
 
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Just wanting to know. Who measured the sound at those games? I didnt know they kept that on record at UT.
 
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