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Question: Is death valley louder than the super dome?

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All I've been hearing these days are people describing death valley as the loudest place on earth and the visiting team will have a lot of trouble communicating. I've never been there, so I have no clue. For people who's been there before and been to the super dome for the previous NCG, which place is louder?
My assumption has always been that a dome can be much louder for being a more "enclosed" space. Can anyone please comment?
 
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I have been to both and think the Superdome is much louder for a home team (ie the Saints).
 
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Layman's terms, please?
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Sorry. LSU is jet plane noise compared to prop plane noise at Superdome.
Have not been to Saints game, though, so I have not heard the Dome noise with 90% or more partisan fans. All the Bama games I've attended in the dome had some semblance of equally divided seating.
 
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Death valley is louder because it is full of lsu fans supedome was divided. At a saints game superfine can get pretty loud but I still think Tiger stadium is louder
 
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At the beginning of a home game or when their team is ahead, I think LSU is much louder than Florida. And Florida goes quiet faster when the game doesn't go their way. :)
 
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Definitely LSU at night. Definitely LSU tomorrow night when the who's have been publicly humiliated in front of the entire nation and are aiming for redemption. Here's hoping Bama can take the crowd out early.
 
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lafella said:
LSU in my opinion when the crowd is riled up is louder than any other place during a football game.
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I was just about to post the same thing. This is one place you need to make sure you have hearing protection. I mean it. The super dome can get loud and keep the noise in, but it is one side at a time. LSU has as rabid a fan base as there is and they stay loud as long as anyone else.

The only place I have been to that was comparable was Autzen Stadium. Believe it or not those Duck fans got VERY loud and stay that way when I got invited to a game there. I got some paper and stuffed as much as I could in my ears.
 
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Listen, the Baton Rouge and Death Valley stuff is a freakin' myth. It is NO louder than any other 80K plus SEC stadium for any other big game. They've been living on that mystique for YEARS. I cannot put my finger on the link, but a year or two ago, someone posted all the decibel readings for all the big games over like 4 years, and the ones at Bama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee and Florida ALL measured about the same on the field. What we hear in the stands is NOT the same, and it is simply "bragging rights" for the home crowd to say "my stadium is louder than yours". There's SO much "local" variability about how loud a stadium sounds based on where you sit and who you sit next to, not to mention which game it is, or which part of the game...

The Death Valley "at night" (Shudder) is sort of like a "Ghost Story"---a bunch of made up crap passed down over the years to try and intimidate people into submission some way or the other.
 
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crimsonbleeder said:
Listen, the Baton Rouge and Death Valley stuff is a freakin' myth. It is NO louder than any other 80K plus SEC stadium for any other big game. They've been living on that mystique for YEARS. I cannot put my finger on the link, but a year or two ago, someone posted all the decibel readings for all the big games over like 4 years, and the ones at Bama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee and Florida ALL measured about the same on the field. What we hear in the stands is NOT the same, and it is simply "bragging rights" for the home crowd to say "my stadium is louder than yours". There's SO much "local" variability about how loud a stadium sounds based on where you sit and who you sit next to, not to mention which game it is, or which part of the game...

The Death Valley "at night" (Shudder) is sort of like a "Ghost Story"---a bunch of made up crap passed down over the years to try and intimidate people into submission some way or the other.
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I believe the question was, which is louder, the Super Dome or Tiger Stadium. It is not necessarily the loudest stadium anyone has ever experienced. That being said, I think Bryant Denny can compete with anyone on a big game with National Championship implications. Same for Florida or Georgia or Tennessee.
 
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bamamoss2 said:
I believe the question was, which is louder, the Super Dome or Tiger Stadium. It is not necessarily the loudest stadium anyone has ever experienced. That being said, I think Bryant Denny can compete with anyone on a big game with National Championship implications. Same for Florida or Georgia or Tennessee.
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Yeah, it is...I think the SuperDome AT ITS loudest is the answer to that question. It's a law of physics than an enclosed stadium will be louder at its loudest potential.

Practically speaking, Red Stick has more "big games" and is "perceived" to be louder. Not sure that's true either.
 
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