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We currently have the 5th loudest stadium at 126.2 decibels. The Washington Huskies ( seriously, what?) have the highest at 133.6. I think we can break that this weekend!
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It's be cool for us to break the decibel record for stadium, then make it the Maroon Effect shirt for next year.
Its a shame they weren't measuring when Eric Green blocked the Miami punt in 2001
That shook the pressbox side of Lane.
That was one of the most amazing and yet depressing games to be at. I took the SATs the same day...and I Ernest Wilforded the hell out of that SAT.
To go with that...
There are 5 known Earthquake Games:
Auburn @ LSU '88
Saints @ Seahawks '11
Alabama @ Auburn '13
Miami @ VT '11
Ohio State @ VT '15
There's actually six, and that's just counting college.
Four of them are at VT. Chris Fowler has been at five of them.
To be fair...how many college campuses are close to a seismograph?
And sit on a massive slab of rock that covers the entire region.
why be fair when you can be loud?
I cannot comprehend how Miami @ VT in 2003 does not make that list.
There probably wasn't a seismograph at the airport at that time.
It was established in 1962, though I don't know if it's been moved since the initial installation.
This might be a dumb question, but for the earthquake games, would that have less to do with sound, and more to do with our entrance where 66k people are jumping up and down?
The "quake" didn't happen during the entrance, but later in the game.
I remember us blocking a punt and feeling the ground shake
Start tweeting it out, get it trending. Let's get Lane Stadium rocking this weekend.
I mean, you guys, I won't be there unfortunately ;_;
The deck of an aircraft carrier is about 140dB, we can do that.
Washington has the best stadium design for trapping and reflecting crowd noise.
Yep.
Man, a home and home with Washington would be freakin awesome. Hokies v. Huskies
Agreed.
Anything that gives me a reason to visit Seattle is awesome.
If only there was a team on our future schedules that nobody enjoys playing and has just given us a reason to cancel a 20-year series with... Washington would be an excellent replacement for that unknown team...
Would be cool. Would also be funny when the announcers start getting confused and either calling both teams the Hokies or Hoskies...
Revenge on Chris Peterson-never forget!
I've always wanted to boat-gate a game.
Charley Steiner would be soooo confused.
So we need to put a second deck and roof over the east side stands?
I'm getting season tickets when we move to Washington.
JBLM next?
Yep! RNLTD 30 July, but we'll probably get it moved up to May.
It's kind of cheating how they have that extra "sound" right behind the stadium....
via GIPHY
Leg for cleverness, correction for inaccuracy. Husky Stadium overlooks Lake Washington, not Puget Sound.
...but the sound feeds the lake just on the other side of the bridge...so all the water's the same right...
On the other side of the bridge is Lake Union, which is fresh water (as is Lake Washington) and has a high enough elevation difference from the Sound that any boats seeking passage between the two need to use the Ballard Locks to adjust. The Sound doesn't feed it.
my god can you imagine how painfully loud Lane would be with similar overhangs on the east and west. also extremely ugly, but loud nonetheless.
We've got a three year streak goin, gotta keep that up!
Washington doesn't surprise me that much.
They have a stadium designed to maximize noise, and the view is gorgeous. Helps that they have been pretty good at multiple times
It was loud as fuck when I went to a game back in 09.
Washington has potential to have the designation of causing a "volcano game"
They've got the goods if they're able to disrupt mother Earth enough...
That is now at the top of my list of acceptable deaths. "Awesome Volcano"
I don't know, "Awesome Volcano" sounds like something Brett Kavanaugh would have put in his calendar journal in his high school days.
high school science fair = awesome volcano
Was shooting pool years ago somewhere in Roanoke with fellow Hokies. Buffett's Volcano song came on and when it got to the chorus, for some reason everybody in the bar started singing along. Nobody acknowledged it, just kept shooting pool and drinking, but for the length of the song, it was like a music video or something every time the chorus came around. Afterward, everyone just went back to whatever...it was cool as shit.
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Let's kick some ass
there should always be an asterisk to these lists. As stated Washington's stadium is designed to reflect
noisesound back to the field. Lane stadium is older and as is my understanding from the period it was built for the retention ofnoisesound. There is a big difference.So what you're saying is, we need to build a giant noise reflecting roof over the grandstands?
I like it!
See the San Siro in Milan
even the nose bleeds have nose bleeds
We do more with less at 66K.
A classic "size of the boat vs. motion of the ocean" situation.
notice you wont see Notre dame on any of these list no matter how many speakers pump in enter sandman for practice., you can lay those clowns down like this and they wouldn't know what loud was till Saturday night!!!!
I heard that they recently relocated the seismograph equipment and that it's further now from Lane? If true I'd think that will impact this going forward.
How much to have continuous F-18, B-1, and B-52 flyovers during Domer offensive drives?
The Air Force has planes too?
And we have plenty of watercraft in the Army
Ooooohhhh!!
She seems to have qualifications.
All in good fun. We all have our capabilities, and my job is relatively safe (non life threatening) in the grand scheme of things. Respect to the guys who've had to forward deploy for year(s) in random locations or hostile areas.
...but there's a stretch we sometimes do in PT called the "air force push-up".
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Upward Facing Dog
That's cute.
We have tendies too.
The Bone flyover is my favorite. I'd love a formation of them to hit the burners over Lane
B1 is cool. The Apaches were cool.
I think three Chinooks flying over would be badass. And loud. Very very loud.
Rumor has it that a Chinook helicopter will be dropping off Metallica at the 50 yard line tomorrow
I heard that Metallica will be parachuting in while playing enter Sandman from the Sky!!
https://youtu.be/6ehKACUMY6U
Can't embed on mobile, but I was still walking in when the B2 came in. It didn't make a sound until it had already gone overhead.
Budget option: get the PA staatspolizei helicopter crew that worked the PSU/tOSU game last week to buzz the ND bench all game.
Here is one for the basketball team.
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/in-upset-of-duke-va-tech-fans-shook-the-ear...
I remember it was discussed that all these decibel levels and seismograph readings were pretty much meaningless.
It's just a clever way to get people hype about being loud. It's pretty much just dependent on if there is a seismograph nearby.
Yeah, I don't think that Oregon one makes sense being ahead of us. Also, kind of surprised OSU, Cuse & WVU aren't on there.
You don't understand Oregon being so high but at the same time are surprised Syracuse and WVU didn't make the list?
I remember back in the mid to late 90s watching Cuse play w/ McNabb at the helm (and a little after) it would get really fucking loud. WVU, as much as my distaste & disdain, they get rowdy loud. I can understand Oregon being ranked on there, what I don't understand is them being ranked above us. Hope that clears it up.
Can confirm. Went to a couple games there when I was living in Roanoke and my best friend went to WVU. It does get loud. Definitely not Lane Loud though.
Being down here in FL now I've been to all 3 of the major schools for games, and honestly Tallahassee and Gainesville are pretty tame. The Swamp definitely disappointed.
Was pretty disappointed in the Doak as well. Gorgeous facility, crowd noise...meh.
Last time I was there was for a FSU-UF game. It was fairly loud. But their fans do not like it when you stand the entire game. And then they REALLY dont like it when you reply "I'm a Hokie, this is how real fans watch a game" (yes, alcohol had an influence. I'm 5'7 175lbs. Aka, not big enough to run my mouth most times)
I just read a tweet that ND practice has gotten to 115 dB.
If we're able to push 125, or even 135, we'll be 10 to 100 times more than they prepared for.
Sensorineural hearing loss range? Miracle Ear representative will be busy in South Bend on Monday.
Can we do a flyover every time ND has a 3rd down?
They would have to refuel a lot though...