Crowd Noise at BOA

[CPcavedweller]

This is awesome.

We actually did that in high school a few times and it worked. I know the NFL is obviously different, but if the huddle were to coordinate a chant, and someone were to video tape it, it could be a board headline. Huddle makes stadium go nuts

[Moose Hoover]

if nothing else every huddler could start the Defense chant on every 3rd down in the case that the crowd noise starts to die. This would help get the chant going again...i bet we are spread out enough that we could get the people around us going and then take off from there.

[Achilles]

For BOA to be truly raucous everyone needs to be in their damn seats from beginning to finish.  This just isn't the way the Charlotte crowd behaves.  It will be a sell out no doubt.  But at any given time, 1/4 of the crowd isn't in their seats.

 

Maybe the intense nature of this game will change that.  The only time I've personally seen the stadium look 100% full was at that 1996 season Dallas playoff game.  That was a wild, rowdy scene.

 

It can still be a loud stadium, even without a capacity crowd, but it doesn't come close to that noise trap they have up in Seattle.  I was watching the USA Men's soccer team qualifier they played there over the summer against Panama and you couldn't even hear the announcers on TV it was so damn loud.

 

Now that poo is loud enough to affect Brees.  What we've got ain't bad, but its going to take a hell of a commitment from fans that (let's face it) are more committed to their frat boy neck ties.

 

Still...like many have said...it will get loud at some points and that should be enough to maybe force the Saints to play out of the huddle when they'd rather not.  It would also be enough to bolster the defense on critical 3rd downs.

[lightsout]

Really, all it takes is the crowd forcing Brees to take a timeout just ONE time. Or cause some visible confusion early. Once the crowd realizes "oh poo, we're effecting this game", they are usually good about keeping it up.

[TrueBlackandBlue]

Dump an eight dollar medium soda out?  You done lost your damn mind!

 

That is an incredibly small price to pay to boost the noise in the Bank. Besides, I'm going to do it with 

a beer and just throw it back.