You forgot those pesky people in wheel chairs man. And kids. Your list was incomplete.
1. Those old people who have been supporting TN Football since before you were born have no right to expect to continue supporting their team!
2. Yep, fat folks. There definitely needs to be physical requirements to even enter Neyland stadium.
3. Wheel chairs. Don't want them. Don't need them. I mean really, how dare a TN fan be physically impaired.
4. Kids. I understand they are learning to become TN fans, but could they just do us all a favor and grow up quicker. It's such an inconvenience.
oooooorrrr.......we could just have them take all the seats out of a couple of sections, so that you folks that are just paying for an area can stand up the whole game. You don't need those silly seats anyway. Would be able to cram more of you in too. I figure without those pesky seats, you wouldn't need as much space and they could probably stick twice as many of you in there.
or you could just turn around and talk to the person behind you and ask them, then work out a civil compromise with them, since they paid to be there just like you did.
If the UT Athletics Dept. did what you want, the stadium would never be filled. Volunteer Nation is made up of many different kinds of people.
Even egotistical pricks. :hi:
Sheesh, I guess I should've added the disclaimer that I don't think there is any chance that the UTAD would actually institute something like that. It's more of a pipe dream. Sorry for throwing out ideas to try and make Neyland louder, but thanks for calling me an egotistical prick based on one comment.![]()
Seriously though, I won't apologize for making noise at a football game, and I'm not one of those people that defiantly stands the whole game when people in front and behind me are sitting. I stand at the occaisional appropriate times, and if you sat behind me, I highly doubt that you would have a problem with me.
Now let me defend my idea. People in wheel chairs already sit in designated areas in the aisles or sky boxes so they don't apply, as I was only talking about the general seating area. As for the old, fat and really young, I didn't say they couldn't/shouldn't come, as the whole upper deck would still be for those who want to sit. You could have the golf carts and elevators expressing those people up to their seats. I think most kids wouldn't mind standing. They are usually bursting with energy anyway, and they could stand on the benches to see. It's not like you couldn't sit down during commercials, quarter breaks, half time, injuries, if you got tired, etc. I'm not running a concentration camp here.
I call bs that the stadium would never be full, case in point: Texas A&M. You know that it is a tradition in College Station that the whole stadium stands the entire game? And that is the entire stadium, not just the lower deck as I was proposing.
Your idea of having only certain sections be standing room only is a good one. My brother and I knew that the entire lower bowl standing scenario would really never happen. Our compromise was to have the end zones as standing room only, and the sideline seats would still be the same
If you've ever seen a European soccer game, they usually reserve the end zone stands for the rowdier, louder fans that basically stand and cheer the whole game. The sideline stands are there for people who just want to sit and watch. That would solve all of our problems.
Why don't we play it when the other offense didn't actually convert on 3rd down. Sorta as a reward for the D stopping them, rather than issuing it as a challenge. This way it is even more of a demoralizer for the now defeated O returning to sideline. Right now it sorta pumps them up (you can see it when they convert). And makes it harder for the crowd to cheer. Besides it being a pretty miserable song to hear ad nauseum... So this way it will be a cookie for the D.
This was mentioned a while back by a poster and I always thought it was very true. 3rd Down For What was cool and all, but it really didn't serve it's purpose. Nobody starts getting truly loud until well after the words "3rd down for what" are said. In that period of time where it gets quiet (when the song says "shots shots shots") and then everyone starts dancing instead of screaming their heads off, the opposing team has plenty of time to turn and say "ok guys we're gonna do a play action pass, fade route" etc etc.
Need to be getting loud as soon as 2nd down is over with and be deafening by the time the opposing team is trying to discuss the play.
Whole bunch of people in this thread disconnected from what the players enjoy. If it hypes up the football team and the students in the stands, it's 100% effective.
They worship satan
Swastikas have absolutely nothing to do with satanism. As far as Pantera goes, I don't listen to them, so I don't know their spiritual beliefs. I only remember that song from my metalhead days as a kid. Also, if spiritual aptitude is a prerequisite for the 3rd song, I highly doubt that Lil John qualifies. I could easily be mistaken. I am only assuming.
The Swastika was a Buddhist charm to begin with, the Nazis just stole it. Also, Satanism is about advancement of oneself, not worshipping anything. More like, do unto others as they do unto you or before they do to you, not how you would have them do unto you. I only know this because of a religious studies class lol.
I didn't call you an egotistical prick. I included them as part of the fan base. It would have been wrong for me to single you out that way. (Disclaimer in my attempt to keep from being booted)
You claimed the title yourself. :good!:
Seriously. Just messin' with ya. It's too quiet on here these days. I got the idea of the standing room only areas from European Soccer games. I think someone mentioned it in another thread too.
The Swastika was a Buddhist charm to begin with, the Nazis just stole it. Also, Satanism is about advancement of oneself, not worshipping anything. More like, do unto others as they do unto you or before they do to you, not how you would have them do unto you. I only know this because of a religious studies class lol.