Morestead just said the Seahawks have giant speakers on the sideline

I believe the nfl passed a rule that allowed pumping in noise a couple of years ago. I think it is limited on when it can be done.

That's a pussy arse tactic. Beat them like a man. Weak.

I can't find the exact rules but I think they can play "music" through the sound system until 20 seconds on the play clock.



This was instituted last season:

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"The at-home experience has gotten better and cheaper, while the in-stadium experience feels like it hasn't," said Eric Grubman, the NFL's executive vice president of ventures and business operations. "That's a trend that we've got to do something about." In hopes that professional football can mimic the wild stadium atmosphere typical of college football games, the NFL says it has "liberalized" its restraints on crowd noise. Stadiums will now be free to rile up crowds with video displays, and public-address announcers will no longer be restrained from inciting racket when the opposing offense faces a crucial third down."

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Yea, not legit

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They scream at the same volume as everyone else. Stadium architecture is designed to keep the noise in and funnel it to field.

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Wouldn't domes be ever worse though?

I'm not an engineer, but I read something about stadium roof architecture. In arenas they install some kind of arc or something on the roof and that helps channel the sound to the floor rather than reverberating randomly around the roof. IDK just something I read.

I have felt my ear drums pulsate a handful of times over the last decade in the dome. Supposedly the dome has "only" gotten to about 120db and that shite is loud (if those moments I recall are the measured readings that have been reported). The change from 120 up to 135+ would be exponentially louder, so either the 120 that they have measured at the dome is understated or something fishy is going on in Seattle and Kansas City. No way they can be THAT much louder than inside the dome.

It was the loudest sporting event I've ever attended. My ears were hurting.

I went in thinking like you did. It isn't close, they are much much louder.

Their roof is very low too

Keep in mind, there is all kinds of monkey business you can do with a dB meter. How close you are to the sound source, will impact the reading. A dB meter placed RIGHT NEXT to the crowd and/or speakers playing blaring music, will be MUCH louder than the same meter, same sound, but down on the sideline or a few dozen yards away. That is what I'd imagine they are doing, that's what I'd do if I wanted to set a decibel record like that.

You can make an average decent-size electric guitar amp give a reading like 90, 100, 110 dB, and it's loud, but the meter is right in front of the speaker cone gettingn blasted, inches away. That doesn't mean you're the Who. Farther away from the speaker, in the venue, it's maybe 60 or 70 dB at most. You can technically say that the guitar is as loud as a jet airplane, but when you hear it, it really isn't. (Unless you are right up in the cone of the speaker, which would not be a good idea.)