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Luda34 01-12-2011 06:48 AM

Earthquake
 
I not crazy I heard this yesterday on ESPN sportcenter but I can't find any proof. They said that when Lynch ran that touchdown that the crowd got so crazy that they were the cause for a small earthquake. I'm not making this up did anyone else hear this.

dizzle88 01-12-2011 07:46 AM

Nola.com have reported that the sound reading was so loud that stadium shook a little.
Lynch isn't anything special, we made him look great with pathetic tackling (porter, greer, LB's)

saintsfan1976 01-12-2011 07:51 AM

Seattle's never had that many fans excited at one time before. The architect probably never planned on it when he built it...

Speedy Ron 01-12-2011 07:58 AM

maybe thats whey we couldnt takle...the ground was shaking

niteadept 01-12-2011 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by saintsfan1976 (Post 279767)
Seattle's never had that many fans excited at one time before. The architect probably never planned on it when he built it...

:lolup: probably never planned for Seattle to have that many fans either...

Beastmode 01-12-2011 08:44 AM

That's what I like about the NFL. Hey I want to win every year like all Saints fan but it's no fun having teams dominate to the point other cities seldom get any glory. Nobody gave us a chance when we won our first playoff game and I can assure you the dome was just as loud when Milne recovered that fumble.

Budsdrinker 01-12-2011 09:50 AM

There are 3-4 games that I've been to in the dome that if measured would have registered on the richter scale. Hakeem drops the ball and Milne recovers the ball. Steve Gleason's blocked punt and the TD on the return to the dome and Hartley's kick to put us in the superbowl. Porter's pick was almost as loud. Another loud moment was the 2006 game against the Eagles when Deuce carried about 5 Eagles into the endzone for a TD.

saintsfan1976 01-12-2011 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Budsdrinker (Post 279787)
There are 3-4 games that I've been to in the dome that if measured would have registered on the richter scale. Hakeem drops the ball and Milne recovers the ball. Steve Gleason's blocked punt and the TD on the return to the dome and Hartley's kick to put us in the superbowl. Porter's pick was almost as loud. Another loud moment was the 2006 game against the Eagles when Deuce carried about 5 Eagles into the endzone for a TD.

I was there fro three of those.

Hakim - first time I said the "F" word in front of my Mom.

Gleason - was returning to seats w double gin & sodas that went into the air.

Deuce - I swear I saw someone crowd surfing in a Deuce jersey

Hartley kick - I will NEVER forgive my boss for making me fly to Albuquerque that day...NEVER.

Ashley 01-12-2011 11:49 AM

I think it was Gregg Williams, screaming his head off at his players that push it over the limit.

st thomas 01-12-2011 12:05 PM

the ground shook when porter picked manning in the super bowl causing more coastal erosion in la. lol

Beastmode 01-12-2011 12:14 PM

Seattle is loud but I just don't see how it could be louder than the Dome. I'm no sound wave professor, I know there are many factors effecting sound travel but an open ceiling, it doesn't take a scientist to tell you that sound is escaping through that big hole. It could also be the effects on the human ear. Quantitive, it may not be louder but to the human ear it could sound entirely different.

winmill1 01-12-2011 12:28 PM

It was on the front page of yahoo on Monday or Tuesday. A university seismic activity scale picked it up as a tremor. The same thing happened when Lsu beat Auburn some years back. When LSU scored it registered on their seismic scale.

Belair57 01-12-2011 12:32 PM

have no fear folks. ive been to the dome for big games, been to seattle (even the monday nighter when T owens pulled out the sharpie) been to 9 other stadiums since the late 80s to watch the saints....and they are loud at qwest, but they cant hold our jock when it comes to the dome. NOT EVEN CLOSE

st thomas 01-12-2011 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Beastmode (Post 279834)
Seattle is loud but I just don't see how it could be louder than the Dome. I'm no sound wave professor, I know there are many factors effecting sound travel but an open ceiling, it doesn't take a scientist to tell you that sound is escaping through that big hole. It could also be the effects on the human ear. Quantitive, it may not be louder but to the human ear it could sound entirely different.

i have to agree the volume in the dome is always tuned down so the broadcasters can think themselves heard.:-D

Sinner 01-12-2011 02:27 PM

No... That was me (in a bad way) from 2000 miles away - shoulda seen my house shaking! The whole west coast felt it.

SaintsBro 01-13-2011 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Beastmode (Post 279834)
Seattle is loud but I just don't see how it could be louder than the Dome. I'm no sound wave professor, I know there are many factors effecting sound travel but an open ceiling, it doesn't take a scientist to tell you that sound is escaping through that big hole. It could also be the effects on the human ear. Quantitive, it may not be louder but to the human ear it could sound entirely different.

My unscientific take on it is that, even though it's open air, Qwest has all those metal aluminum type panels and rods and junk all over it, the girders and stuff, which the sound reflects off of, making the sound waves bounce around in there a lot more, you get reflections and little echoes and thus it seems louder...the three stadiums that come up over and over again in discussions of "who's the loudest?" are always the Metrodome, the Superdome, and Quest, and all three of them have a lot of steel and metal in their construction, more harsh exposed metal than the average modern stadium. The old '70s domes are all girders and big honking metal panels, like the walls up top in the Dome, and even though it's more recent, Qwest kinda copied that look and feel. The acoustics in the Superdome are in fact, terrible, which is why concerts there were usually pretty awful (if anyone is old enough to remember seeing the Stones or Prince there back in the day, the sound was bouncing all around and it sounded like mud almost anywhere you sat)

AlaskaSaints 01-13-2011 04:44 PM

About the hardest thing for me now is to give Seattle, the Seahawks, or Qwest Field credit for anything. I mean anything.

But having been to the Dome many times and Qwest Field now 3 times, I honestly think that last Saturday was the most deafening experience I've had in ANY stadium or dome.

I also have been to the Metrodome, Georgia Dome, Univ. PHX (under closed roof), Arrowhead among others. Heck, I saw Terry Bradshaw beat Minnesota in Super Bowl IX at TULANE STADIUM!! LOL

I was 10 rows off the field last weekend and I had to absolutely scream in my wife's ear for her to hear me at times.

Alaska

jeanpierre 01-13-2011 05:19 PM

Went to two games this season; gotta tell you it seemed for "corporate" and the Dome didn't seem as loud as years past...

CheramieIII 01-13-2011 06:50 PM

Lynch ain't crap and neither is our tackling!

lynwood 01-13-2011 06:54 PM

The shaking felt was from everyone's JAW hitting the ground realizing that we lost the game.

Srgt. Hulka 01-13-2011 08:20 PM

Stop and think, Seattle is in the middle of earthquake a d volcano country. These people have siesmometer on every street corner. A good fart in that city would set one of those things off.

QBREES9 01-13-2011 08:21 PM

There was an Earthquake in Milford CT too

Budsdrinker 01-14-2011 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Srgt. Hulka (Post 280147)
Stop and think, Seattle is in the middle of earthquake a d volcano country. These people have siesmometer on every street corner. A good fart in that city would set one of those things off.

Especially on Red Bean Monday!!


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