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Loudest stadiums:

J. D. Redding 13:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC) [ps., be nice if someone would put in the citations for this]

[edit] False starts

As a result the NFL has had representatives monitoring the noise levels which in conclusion came out negative.

I removed the above sentence because it was unreferenced and ambiguous. If someone has a citation as to what the NFL monitored, what the purpose of it was, and what the result was, feel free to put it back in. hateless 03:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

paul nenema--67.185.130.21 (talk) 05:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)paul nenema

The NFL was monitoring whether crowd noise was being piped in over the public address system. The NFL has rather byzantine rules on what is or is not allowed when it comes to stadium noise (which might be worthy of its own article). The Vikings were once busted for pointing speakers at the visiting bench and plasting music at them "for the crowds entertainment" of course. Anyway, once play starts there can't be anything coming out of the stadium system that isn't something like "save your ass, we're all gonna die." If a team was found to do so intentionally (systems break have feedback get fixed etc) they would probably be fined some chunk of change. Goodell would think of something, there don't appear to be fixed standards. If it continued to be a problem they might lose draft picks. Perhaps absurdly, some of the other noise rules involve whether the team can employ cheerleaders to actually lead cheers (they can't). Which is a little sad in the case of the Seahawks as they used to have Bill "The Beerman" do just that back in the 80s. And I do remember the Kingdome being generally much louder than Qwest, the NFC Championship game which I think Fox unofficially measured peaking at 130+ dB was a routine kind of volume from the games I remember from my youth. Now some of that is bound to be bias on the part of my memory, but the impression remains strong. The allegation, which is uncommon but not unheard of (the colts have also be accused) was that crowd noise was being fed over the stadium speakers. The NFL found that wasn't happening. And indeed it was the skycam operation on primetime games that had to be changed as a result of the noise at Qwest (they added a light). The camera is suspented by guide wires, and they give or take up slack to move the camera. Apparently this is handled by radio, the guy who was supposed to take up the slack couldn't hear the direction because of the crowd noise, causing the camera to drop, nearly hitting 2 Seahawks players. One of which was Matt Hasslebeck. But if a random claim was made, then unsubstantiated, and forgoten, does that really merit inclusion?--Insancipitory (talk) 01:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stadium

In a school trip a guide told us the other side of the stadium was open so the visiting team would have trouble playing if it rained/snowed because it would go in their face. Is this true? If it is should it go in the article? Jose Me (talk) 05:22, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

No, the teams switch sides every quarter. The team that wins the coin toss can pick which side they will start on (or whether they get first possession). Cacophony (talk) 03:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Cacophony, you missed the point. The stadium design is balanced but part of the decision to have the visiting team's bench on the east side was because on hot days the home team would be in the shade and if there were blowing rain it would tend to impact the east sideline more. --Coz (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
In fact during the glory days of the Kingdome it was the Seahawks which were on the east side, the visitors on the west.--Insancipitory (talk) 02:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)