Noise level

[football karma]

And that's my point. How can the Super Bowl be loud at all with so many of the seats going to the same kind of people who don't make noise at Cardinal games?
Maybe they make noise because of the nature of the game but:

I think it's just TV turning up the volume. I do know that the quality of the TV picture and replays was far better than what we get for a Cardinal home game.

I am with DJ

I think the sound was more due to all the extra mike pickups on the field etc, rather than the crowd.

Lets face it, for a Cardinals home game against Atlanta vs the Superbowl, it is comparing the the bare minimum for TV production to the best the network can offer.

 

[Duckjake]

Then why does TV only turn up the volume during televised Seahawks games? Sorry Duck Im not buying it. Everytime I watch a game played in Seattles stadium that doesnt Garner national attention it sounds like today. Turn it around and everytime I watch a game in AZ on TV that doesnt garner national attention it sounds like 1/4 of today.

They don't. They only turn up the sound for the Super Bowl to make it seem even more exciting.

Of course the extra microphone theory could be right as well.

Or maybe the sit-on-their- hands corporate vice presidents actually get up and yell because it is the Super Bowl. Sure doesn't fit the character though. Its not just at Cardinal games either. Texas had that problem with their basketball fans until they restructured the seating and got more students and fewer rich people at the games.

I just don't see how there can be that much noise with so many of the tickets going to people other than the participating teams hard core fans.

The NFL controls 25.2 percent of the 70,500 seats at University of Phoenix Stadium, which it distributes to assorted business associates, sponsors, network partners and media members.

It also uses 1,000 tickets for a general fan lottery.

Five percent go to the host, in this case the Cardinals, and 34.8 percent to the other 29 teams not in the game. That leaves 17.5 percent for each team that reaches the Super Bowl.

Thus the Giants control about 12,338 tickets. Roughly half of those go to players, coaches, staff, owners, advertisers and sponsors.

Each player gets two free and can buy up to 13. Most coaches and players buy as many as they can, but the league does not permit scalping them, as then Vikings coach Mike Tice discovered when he was fined $100,000 for doing so three years ago.

 

[cardsloco]

I am with DJ

I think the sound was more due to all the extra mike pickups on the field etc, rather than the crowd.

Lets face it, for a Cardinals home game against Atlanta vs the Superbowl, it is comparing the the bare minimum for TV production to the best the network can offer.

The extra 10 thousand people to yell couldn't hurt.

 

[blindseyed]

Me too. But they need those seats in permanent IMO.

It seems more 'full' and doesn't seem like a high school field house at one end.
Crap, I agreed with Shane!...

 

[earthsci]

At one point during the game I heard the sound suddenly get louder. Not the crowd getting louder, like a switch or microphone being turned on.

 

[WildBB]

It seems more 'full' and doesn't seem like a high school field house at one end.
Crap, I agreed with Shane!...

That one end of the field sucks. No stadium in the NFL is empty like that is there?

 

[Renz]

It was loud, especially when the Giants were doing well, but it wasn't any louder than it is during Cardinal games, IMO.

 

[82CardsGrad]

This raises the question:

With the teams splitting a % of seats and most of the rest of the seats going to high rollers instead of fans of the participating teams why would the noise level be that high? Piped it in for TV?

We've all seen how the swells act at games and making noise isn't one of the things you would attribute to them. In fact it is the #1 complaint I see on this board that the wealthy don't normally stand and make noise.

Did they let the throw down crowd that was there to surround the stage and Tom Petty at half time stick around to make noise in the second half?

You might have missed it, but this town was flooded with Giants and Pats fans. If you have the chance, take a close look at the stands during the game and you'll seen thousands of people wearing Giants and Pats uniforms... I think you are grossly underestimating the number of actual fans who attended the game - many who very could have been "high rollers" or guests of a coporate sponsor...

 

[MigratingOsprey]

some stadiums have pretty big breaks in their upper bowl on the corners or one endzone complete and a smaller 2nd endzone (like lincoln field & heinz field)

raymond james is pretty open in both end zones as is the stadium in nashville

seattle is a little bit different with it's tower in one end zone

however I don't think there is anything out there like UoP where there is such a large open space behind the endzone seats - other places with smaller endzone seating are backed by the end of the stadium so it looks more condensed

i wonder how the fixed seats that they do sell compare to the endzone seats in a place like tampa as far as numbers

 

[Duckjake]

You might have missed it, but this town was flooded with Giants and Pats fans. If you have the chance, take a close look at the stands during the game and you'll seen thousands of people wearing Giants and Pats uniforms... I think you are grossly underestimating the number of actual fans who attended the game - many who very could have been "high rollers" or guests of a coporate sponsor...

Even if that is true, unless 80-90% of the people at the game were for one team, which may have been the case and could explain the crowd noise, there is no way there could be more noise than the 55,000 Cardinals fans make.

 

[English on tour]

seeing that stadium and listening to is being bigged up on TV made me proud to be Cards fan

enough said

 

[cardsfanmd]

Please lets not have the "Cardinal fans dont know how to cheer correctly" arguement again.

 

[40yearfan]

some stadiums have pretty big breaks in their upper bowl on the corners or one endzone complete and a smaller 2nd endzone (like lincoln field & heinz field)

raymond james is pretty open in both end zones as is the stadium in nashville

seattle is a little bit different with it's tower in one end zone

however I don't think there is anything out there like UoP where there is such a large open space behind the endzone seats - other places with smaller endzone seating are backed by the end of the stadium so it looks more condensed

i wonder how the fixed seats that they do sell compare to the endzone seats in a place like tampa as far as numbers

Do you think maybe the Cards intentionally kept the seat amounts lower to make sure they had sell-outs? If they start doing well, they can always add more seating.

 

[Shane]

Do you think maybe the Cards intentionally kept the seat amounts lower to make sure they had sell-outs? If they start doing well, they can always add more seating.

They already have a waiting list of around 3,000 so they could easily fill that many more seats.