Sean Payton: Crowd noise was good, but I’ve heard it louder
 

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Re: Sean Payton: Crowd noise was good, but I’ve heard it louder
 

It was pretty loud through the first half. Up 35 it’s less of a reason to scream until your head pops. Everyone got it going in the 4th. The 2009 Pats game was louder.

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Jean Pierre is right, the types of people that make up the Dome crowd has sorta changed a bit, and different types of Saints fans, especially post-Katrina, but that's not all there is to it.

Unfortunately, with the recent renovations to the Dome, a new phenomenon has started occurring in the Dome (this started happening post Super Bowl renovations, in the last last couple of years). Something that I used to see happen frequently in other NFL stadiums, but NEVER happened in the Dome, but now it's started happening in our Dome as well.

Namely, at halftime, the lower bowl of the Dome empties out, and when the 3rd quarter starts, the lower bowl is half empty and doesn't fill back up properly for quite some time, well into the end of the 3rd quarter, because people are out in the concourses hanging out, noshing on shrimp cocktail, getting drinks or food, sitting in comfy chairs, checking their fantasy stats on their phone, or simply watching the game from the bar/Club Lounge areas --- which I gotta say are really really nice spaces, I've been in them and those Club Lounge areas are really swank, but you're in a completely different room or space from the game itself, and you're basically just watching it on TV. This trend started happening almost immediately after the big Dome renovations a couple years ago; meanwhile the terrace where I'm always at, is still loud and proud, and by far the best place to see the games, with plenty of diehard Whodat Saints fans.

Those 2-3 big 3rd quarter drives by the Rams, that got them back in the game -- the whole time that was going on, you could see the lower bowl was thin with scattered people, and the crowd noise was absolutely anemic. It looks like a lot of people in the lower levels are spending time off in the Club Lounge, hanging out away from the game. The terrace is always packed.

Having said that, I've been to every game and this week they DID have the music cranked up much louder than usual, the little snippets of songs they play between plays, and the Crunk song, the Oh When The Saints song after kicks, all that stuff was cranked MUCH louder than in previous weeks, at least where I was sitting.

Re: Sean Payton: Crowd noise was good, but I’ve heard it louder
 

Payton's the master of motivation. Here he is now telling the fans that we can do better. He does this to his players all the time.

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I wasn't at the Rams game, but the noise at the 2009 NFC championship game against the Vikes was crazy. It was CONSTANT. There was definitely a different vibe in the Dome that day.

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called out

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Agreed, and probably because we were on defense for 2/3 of that game
Easily the loudest game I've attended

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Exactly!! This is the main reason, but the fans came back in the 4th when things got interesting.

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Maybe the Saints should think about upgrading their concessions delivery program. It would be much better for all the fan's hearts if they those attending stayed in their seats the entire game.

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It takes more than the 11 minutes of halftime to get to the bathroom if you obey the in and out rules. Bathroom and buying my one drink during the game takes a minimum of 15 minutes if I sneak in the out door at the bathroom. Standing in line for a snack would be at least 15 minutes by itself.

If someone hit the head obeying the rules, bought a drink and bought something to eat, the third quarter is over and I think a lot of people do just that.

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Talked to someone who went and she said the crowd was insane the first half but after we took that big lead the crowd was quiet as a mouse at the start of the second. Anyone who has spent any length of time as a Saints fan knows better than to be comfortable with a big lead against a team like the Rams. Just give me your tickets bandwagoners .

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Re: Sean Payton: Crowd noise was good, but I’ve heard it louder
 

Way to go coach, coach up the crowd ;)

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They need to keep the cheap seats cheap and just rain beer down on the fans in the upper deck. Put gutters in at the bottom of the Terrace section overhang so it doesn't drip down to the lower decks.

GUARANTEED TO GET MUCH LOUDER

:chug:

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It kills me that a lot of people have season tickets just for the social status and never use them. My 22 year old daughter in law babysits for a pretty affluent couple. They gave her 2 club level seats on the first row. She’s never Watched a game in her life. Guess which game it was? Yep Washington. She took my wife who is a huge Saints fan and I sat at home and watched one of the biggest feats in Saints an NFL history on my couch. I’m glad my wife got to go but Jesus my stepdaughter picked a hell of a time to have a mother/daughter get together. *****.

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Tickets are easy to get. Buy some and go. Never been a better time. Saints are 7-1 and there are empty seats.

So put your money where your mouth is and show us "bandwagoners" how its done.

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We could do what the Dirty Birds do pipe in crowd noise..or not.

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Watched the game last night. I did notice a drop off in crowd noise in the 3rd but the 4th quarter noise was epic!