jeanpierre

jeanpierre

It may be that the renovations over the years may have lessened the dB, but I've gone to the Superdome for events over forty years...

Maybe with all the success and escalation in ticket prices has changed the composition of the crowd from one of hard-working fans blowing off steam...

That it's now one of corporate/lawyer types attending with their traveling secretaries, but the Dome sure did seem louder in years past...

Papa Voodoo

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.

SaintsBro

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.

44Champs

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.

44Champs

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.

ScottF

called out

ScottF

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

CharityMike

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

dam1953

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.