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re: Let's get involved further, we need to make crowd noise a focus
Posted by drtigah on 10/26/18 at 8:01 am to PensaTigers
One of the best ways to do this is NOT SWING AROUND THE TOWELS that LSU idiotically supplies every year for this game! Clapping hands and hands cupped to mouths to project voices makes noise. Not towels twirling in the air. The stadium had been crippled for the Bama game the last 3-4 meetings in TS due to the terrible towels.
Stop the towels, please.
Stop the towels, please.
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re: The Terrible...Terrible Towels
Posted by drtigah on 12/3/14 at 5:26 pm to GetmorewithLes
got to start somewhere right?
Hopefully I'll do better next time :cool:
Hopefully I'll do better next time :cool:
These are all good points so far, and I guess its difficult to judge which game was louder between ole miss/bama, I just recall there being a few crucial moments where the stadium needed to get loud, which it was, but that I was able to hear people talking next to me unlike some of the louder games in the past. To reiterate though, I don't believe the towels/pom poms/cowbells/whatever directly cause anyone to win or lose. But I do think that clapping+yelling is undoubtedly louder than towel twirling+yelling, and anything that can be done to make Death Valley as hostile an environment as possible (within realistic bounds) should be considered. It might look really cool on TV, be fun to be like the Steelers, and apparently may even cause a select few to yell louder as mentioned above. But I think as a whole (at least in the student section), the towels do more harm than good other than possibly distracting the field goal kickers.
Do any of the older fans remember towels being placed in the stadium other than the last decade or so? Or is this a new "big game" tradition?
Do any of the older fans remember towels being placed in the stadium other than the last decade or so? Or is this a new "big game" tradition?
The Terrible...Terrible Towels
Posted by drtigah on 12/3/14 at 12:41 pm
I know this has been discussed on here before (last thread I could find was from 2012 Twirling Towels at the Game.... ) but I really wanted to make sure it gets some attention again so that the fanbase/whoever is in charge of placing the towels in the stadium understands how detrimental (IMHO) these things are to the atmosphere in Death Valley.
I sat square in the middle of the East side of the stadium for the Ole Miss game, there were no towels for this game, and I found that it was incredibly loud for the majority of the game,so much so that I was unable to hear or speak to those sitting directly next to me for over 50% of the game.
For the Alabama game (towels present) I sat in the student section, which if I recall correctly is normally the loudest section, however I'm not sure that there was a moment during the game where I couldn't hear those around me besides when Yeldon fumbled near the Alabama endzone late in the 4th quarter.
I'm not in any way blaming losses or wins on whether or not fans are swinging around the towels during the game, hell it looks pretty damn cool when the majority of the stadium is swinging those things around. However, I do know that for every towel being swung, one less tiger fan is clapping and therefore not adding to the loudness that Tiger Stadium is known and feared for.
I think we need to attempt to keep these things from entering the stadium in the future, or at least to urge other fans to clap instead of swing the towels.
Again...sorry if Germans..and I'm not betching about past losses, only hoping to help maintain a winning environment in Death Valley.
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I sat square in the middle of the East side of the stadium for the Ole Miss game, there were no towels for this game, and I found that it was incredibly loud for the majority of the game,so much so that I was unable to hear or speak to those sitting directly next to me for over 50% of the game.
For the Alabama game (towels present) I sat in the student section, which if I recall correctly is normally the loudest section, however I'm not sure that there was a moment during the game where I couldn't hear those around me besides when Yeldon fumbled near the Alabama endzone late in the 4th quarter.
I'm not in any way blaming losses or wins on whether or not fans are swinging around the towels during the game, hell it looks pretty damn cool when the majority of the stadium is swinging those things around. However, I do know that for every towel being swung, one less tiger fan is clapping and therefore not adding to the loudness that Tiger Stadium is known and feared for.
I think we need to attempt to keep these things from entering the stadium in the future, or at least to urge other fans to clap instead of swing the towels.
Again...sorry if Germans..and I'm not betching about past losses, only hoping to help maintain a winning environment in Death Valley.
:geauxtigers:
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