9296potsguy
Drinking to cope
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2004
- Messages
- 4,341
- Likes
- 1,096
Neyland is not the oldest or biggest in the world. The oldest continuously operating stadium is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (1854). It's record attendance was a little over 121,000. It was the primary stadium for the 1956 Olympics. Today, it is usually used for Australian Rules Football, which ESPN ran back in 1980's. Aussie Football is much more physical, wilder, dangerous and entertaining to watch than American football. A lot of above the shoulders action. It was an after midnight sports bar favorite when ESPN lacked enough American programming In its early days. They should bring it back rather than recycling 2 year old college football games. Rugby and soccer are also played at the MCG.
I agree and then sadly after that ridiculous squib and David Greenes TD pass it was the most deadly silent that I can ever recall inside Neyland stadium .Sustained loudest if not outright loudest had to be against UF '98. Loudest single burst I have heard was Travis Stephens TD vs. UGA at the end of the game in '01. For 20 seconds, the world stopped. Runner-ups were against UF in '04 and then Oklahoma. The '95 Jeff Hall game-winner against UGA was loud AF as well, and that was when the North end was open.
Is anyone here old enough to remember when the SEC or NCAA had rules against too much crowd noise at games? I distinctly remember Alabama and Bear Bryant demanding action when Neyland got too loud. It was a penalty of some sort if the noise level was too high, iirc.
Spot on.It's a fun topic but all of these measurements are relative to the placements of the decibal meters. At close range I have actually measured 130 decibals with my voice alone. So, all of this is relevant to placement and the measured sustainability of crowd noise. The most accurate place to measure noise in a football stadium is midfield at the 50 yard line but no one can do that. I highly doubt stadiums are suspening decibal meters.
We were protecting against the deep hall. When you commit yourself to spying on the QB you condemn yourself to another one on one match up somewhere else. Defense did it’s job and so did Neyland, we really made it difficult for Ole Miss to audible out of some runs in the “check with me system” that is pretty widely usedStill pisses me off. We needed to keep an extra lb in the middle, instead we put them on the line. Up the middle was an easy run and we never tried to adjust
Oh Hell naw. Sorry, but Ditka was right. You want to stop all the head injuries, remove the helmets.Neyland is not the oldest or biggest in the world. The oldest continuously operating stadium is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (1854). It's record attendance was a little over 121,000. It was the primary stadium for the 1956 Olympics. Today, it is usually used for Australian Rules Football, which ESPN ran back in 1980's. Aussie Football is much more physical, wilder, dangerous and entertaining to watch than American football. A lot of above the shoulders action. It was an after midnight sports bar favorite when ESPN lacked enough American programming In its early days. They should bring it back rather than recycling 2 year old college football games. Rugby and soccer are also played at the MCG.
I was a student here in 66-67 and again in 74-78 and attended all home games. I remember Coaches and QB would complain and the officials would stop the game and ask for noise level to be reduced. If it continued they would threaten to penalize and have the coaches ask fans to quiet down. I don't remember actually being penalized though. The stadium was not as large though. It was enlarged to 65K in late 60's. But it also used to hold 108K before they took out seats to add sky boxes. It was louder then than now.
I was there and it was loud! Also the 90 Notre Dame game was loud.They didn't use noise meters in 1998 but the Tennessee Florida game that year is still the loudest game in Neyland Stadium history.......which also means in the world since 'Neyland Stadium is the biggest and oldest stadium in the world"......3YL
VERY! All those games in 90 were very loud! I’d like to know where the readings are taken from! They should take them as sustained and peak from endzones and sidelines, and even up in stands at different points. It has been so loud at various times you couldn’t hear next to you! I don’t believe 118dB is tops AT ALL, especially seeing some of the other place’s peak readings, which we know some are manipulated.I was there and it was loud! Also the 90 Notre Dame game was loud.
VERY! All those games in 90 were very loud! I’d like to know where the readings are taken from! The should take them as sustained and peak from endzones and sidelines, and even up in stands at different points. It has been so loud I there at various times you couldn’t hear next to you! I don’t believe 118dB is tops AT ALL, especially seeing some of the other place’s peak readings, which we know some are manipulated.
NEYLAND is more closed in than LSU OR UF but not necessarily louder or less, but the sound is different. Three of the stadiums on the “list” do have some design advantages however they also amplified a lot! Again my point of where and when a reading is taken is most important! Based on all the events, concerts, stadiums etc I’ve ever been to, I do not believe NEYLAND hasn’t cracked 130 multiple times.Neyland is so open getting 118db there is impressive. Those other stadiums have architectural designs that direct sound down to the field. They were also in many cases, done through a coordinated effort to specifically set sound records and weren't a by product of on field excitement like ours.
NEYLAND is more closed in than LSU OR UF but not necessarily louder or less, but the sound is different. Three of the stadiums on the “list” do have some design advantages however they also amplified a lot! Again my point of where and when a reading is taken is most important! Based on all the events, concerts, stadiums etc I’ve ever been to, I do not believe NEYLAND hasn’t cracked 130 multiple times.