Loudest Stadium in the Nation?
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I like it, but that guy’s rankings are routinely embarrassing.
Yeah that list is stupid. Although Iowa #1 makes it less stupid in my eyes
If Nebraska is in top ten that immediately discredits the list.
Those balloons can get pretty loud.
Never been to Kinnick Stadium but defiantly my bucket list .
I have no idea on the accuracy of that list but Kinnick is the loudest stadium I have ever been in and it's not close. The only place I've been in that actually caused my ears to hurt and I blame for my loss of hearing (because clearly it had nothing to do with listening to music too loud when I was younger).
Logic would say a dome would be louder.
really isn’t worth a debate. Measuring devices could be placed instadiums, need a spot that is consistent (which might be a problem). Ideally a measuring device at midfield.
maybe a device imbedded in the first down marker.
I have been to some Twins playoff games in the old metrodome where you could feel the crowd against your chest and the upper deck was vibrating. Also was at the Minnesota Miracle. Both felt louder than the Penn State game but emotion has a lot to do with perception.
really isn’t worth a debate. Measuring devices could be placed instadiums, need a spot that is consistent (which might be a problem). Ideally a measuring device at midfield.
maybe a device imbedded in the first down marker.
I have been to some Twins playoff games in the old metrodome where you could feel the crowd against your chest and the upper deck was vibrating. Also was at the Minnesota Miracle. Both felt louder than the Penn State game but emotion has a lot to do with perception.
People posted pics of the decibel levels from the smart devices. I believe it ranged from 117-124. The press box was shaking.
I've been to Sanford Stadium at Georgia many times. Sure, it gets loud, but it's not even in the same category as a Kinnick Stadium for a big game. Kinnick Stadium is so loud your eyes start vibrating and you have to rearrange your vision to watch the damn game.
Kinnick Stadium goes to 11. Nigel Tufnel.
Kinnick Stadium goes to 11. Nigel Tufnel.
The only stadium I’ve been to that gets louder than Kinnick is Arrowhead
I thought that O$U's Horseshoe was loudest I've been to. After beating Michigan in '85 that next road game there was something else. The upper steel deck hold the sound in. The Big House is quite by comparison...
Logic would say only one major college football team plays in a dome, so the fact that sound is louder when it can't escape doesn't really apply here.
These are college football's 10 loudest stadiums
Live sports are almost always entertaining but nothing quite lives up to the unbridled chaos that occurs on Saturdays for college football. There are moments that the sound
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is this what they're calling the lois feldman game???
Actually Jim tressel once said the loudest environment he was in was UNIDome as Youngstown St. Head coach. Fwiw.
16,000 in small building with a metal roof. Logically that makes some sense.
It was the loudest that day than any other game in my Kinnick experiences that pre-date it even being Kinnick.
Yes, I'd join in with that and my game/stadium history goes back to the 70's pre Hayden. However, the loudest sports environment that I was ever exposed to had to be the U of I Fieldhouse during several home games (Ohio State being most memorable) in the Ronnie Lester years...came out of the building with my ears ringing, couldn't hear and it stayed that way for 24 hours...no wonder I wear hearing aids now.
Whenever I see an intro for a game at Kinnick, I always think of the movie Gladiator and the Coliseum with the horns blaring. Some crazy shit is about to go down.
These are college football's 10 loudest stadiums
Live sports are almost always entertaining but nothing quite lives up to the unbridled chaos that occurs on Saturdays for college football. There are moments that the sound
These numbers don’t mean much. First of all, these reading are taken with different devices at varying locations on the sidelines of, obviously, different stadiums. Secondly, a lot of high noise readings come from announced measurements, where a crowd is encouraged to be as loud as possible. If the Kinnick crowd during the PSU game had been informed beforehand of a sound experiment, our enormously loud stadium would have peaked significantly higher. Even during a game like Iowa vs PSU, thousands of fans aren’t doing anything at all.
Yes, I'd join in with that and my game/stadium history goes back to the 70's pre Hayden. However, the loudest sports environment that I was ever exposed to had to be the U of I Fieldhouse during several home games (Ohio State being most memorable) in the Ronnie Lester years...came out of the building with my ears ringing, couldn't hear and it stayed that way for 24 hours...no wonder I wear hearing aids now.
I remember Tony Ramos pinning his Penn State opponent to start off a sold out meet in Carver. That “pop” was every bit as loud as Kinnick gets. Heated Iowa wrestling meets may even exceed Kinnick. It would be interesting to see a formal comparison.
As much as Michigan fans like to believe their huge new press box and suites keep crowd sound inside the stadium, it does not. Michigan Stadium is far too shallow, regardless of recent structural additions, to rattle anyones ears.
Agree. PSU was the Loudest sustained crowd noise at Kinnick I’ve ever experienced, but the fieldhouse when it was rockin was another level. We have Michigan on 10/1 next year. Hopefully a night game and we’ll surpass PSU. Revenge game.Yes, I'd join in with that and my game/stadium history goes back to the 70's pre Hayden. However, the loudest sports environment that I was ever exposed to had to be the U of I Fieldhouse during several home games (Ohio State being most memorable) in the Ronnie Lester years...came out of the building with my ears ringing, couldn't hear and it stayed that way for 24 hours...no wonder I wear hearing aids now.
Kinnick is like the frat house close to campus. The big house is the sterile cookie cutter house in the suburbs occupied by empty nesters.
I was in North End Zone for Penn State game. . Was in metronome 1987 when Twins won series. That was loud.
The noise in Kinnick for PSU was so intense the crowd deserved a game ball. We and I mean we as a crowd would not allow the Hawks to lose. Best crowd ever.
Death Valley (LSU) is the loudest stadium I've been in and Iowa is second, although I haven't been to a huge amount of them.
Kinnick at peak volume is very impressive.
Kinnick at peak volume is very impressive.
I would also add Oregon and Washington- they are extremely loud been to both stadiums and the Huskies stadium is deafening like Iowa’s… would love to get a home and away with Washington
I think the new north endzone is what made Kinnick so extra loud against PSU.
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I can vouch for this. I started to wear earplugs at games to avoid physical pain my freshman year at Iowa. I remember at times when it really got rocking that huge clumps of dust would fall from the steel beams above our heads, some of them as big as my fist.Yes, I'd join in with that and my game/stadium history goes back to the 70's pre Hayden. However, the loudest sports environment that I was ever exposed to had to be the U of I Fieldhouse during several home games (Ohio State being most memorable) in the Ronnie Lester years...came out of the building with my ears ringing, couldn't hear and it stayed that way for 24 hours...no wonder I wear hearing aids now.
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