re: ~Spin Off Thread~ Huge misconception about a loud moment in TS

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Much smaller stadium back then, bruh. No way 79,000 fans there were louder than 92,000 in later years.

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this is a myth.

i sat in the east upper for bama '12 and couldn't tell how loud it was until colin cowherd gushed about it later in the week. the majority of people up there don't get loud except for TD's and critical 3rd downs.

it's just not how sound works... the decks trap in sound from the lower bowl a little bit, but they don't overhand for the extra echos. 1/2 the sound from a yell in the upper deck travels up and out of the stadium and the other half diffuses before ever reaching the field, and like i said it might make more of a difference if the uppers were loud for the sake of being loud, but they just aren't.