Matt Ruhle said the loud stadiums at Minnesota and Colorado to start last season basically took him a bit by surprise.

[PMWinSTP]

Trivia or randomness...the loudest events I've ever been a part of both occurred in 1987. The 1987 Twins World Series games at the Metrodome very loud and stupid fun!! Also, at the Met Center in August of the same year Huey Lewis and the News was by far the loudest sound I ever recall in my lifetime...at least at an event. I literally could not hear for a week after the concert. Sound so loud it hurt....but of course I was too dumb to leave.
I wish it wasn't so but Huey has a major hearing condition. This night had to be a contributor.

Huey Lewis has Ménière's disease, which causes hearing loss. His band and music would not be one I would have thought would be in that category, but some bands surprise live. I saw Motorhead and Ozzy outdoor on the riverflats. That was LOUD.

 

[GopherGrit]

No, it's an objective fact I turned down free tickets to the Eagles game because I hate the Zygi Crib.

It sucks. Likes nice in HDTV though.

You can choose to yell at clouds, old man.

You're still objectively wrong.

 

[GopherGrit]

Trivia or randomness...the loudest events I've ever been a part of both occurred in 1987. The 1987 Twins World Series games at the Metrodome very loud and stupid fun!! Also, at the Met Center in August of the same year Huey Lewis and the News was by far the loudest sound I ever recall in my lifetime...at least at an event. I literally could not hear for a week after the concert. Sound so loud it hurt....but of course I was too dumb to leave.
I wish it wasn't so but Huey has a major hearing condition. This night had to be a contributor.

Huey made a cameo in Back to the Future as the lead band judge for the high school dance, who said "sorry guys, you're just too darn loud" to Marty's band.

 

[Ope3]

You can choose to yell at clouds, old man.

You're still objectively wrong.

It's unfortunate Minneapolis didn't get a dome like Las Vegas did, which I think is fantastic.

Supposed to be quite good for concerts as well unlike the dreaded Zygi facility.

 

[GopherGrit]

It's unfortunate Minneapolis didn't get a dome like Las Vegas did, which I think is fantastic.

Supposed to be quite good for concerts as well unlike the dreaded Zygi facility.

You're lying or choosing to be ignorant. That's on you

Overall ranking among all NFL stadiums​

Across lists from outlets like The Athletic, ESPN, and fan-rating studies, the stadium usually falls somewhere between #1 and about #7 in the entire league.

Examples​

• The Athletic (2023 writers poll) – #1 overall among all NFL stadiums.
• ESPN ranking – #5 overall in the NFL.
• Aggregate fan-review study – #7 overall based on online ratings.

Rough consensus​

If you average across major lists:

Typical range:

• Top 3–7 out of 30–32 NFL stadiums

Relative standing among indoor venues​

Across most rankings:

U.S. Bank Stadium typically ranks:

• #1–#3 among indoor stadiums

For example:

• The Athletic ranking placed it #1 overall, meaning it beat every indoor venue including SoFi and AT&T Stadium.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

You're lying or choosing to be ignorant. That's on you

Overall ranking among all NFL stadiums​

Across lists from outlets like The Athletic, ESPN, and fan-rating studies, the stadium usually falls somewhere between #1 and about #7 in the entire league.

Examples​

• The Athletic (2023 writers poll) – #1 overall among all NFL stadiums.
• ESPN ranking – #5 overall in the NFL.
• Aggregate fan-review study – #7 overall based on online ratings.

Rough consensus​

If you average across major lists:

Typical range:

• Top 3–7 out of 30–32 NFL stadiums

Relative standing among indoor venues​

Across most rankings:

U.S. Bank Stadium typically ranks:

• #1–#3 among indoor stadiums

For example:

• The Athletic ranking placed it #1 overall, meaning it beat every indoor venue including SoFi and AT&T Stadium.

I don't know what folks are seeing about US Bank stadium, how it looks on TV, just sitting in your seat on a sunny day. I agree those aspects are nice.

The concourse though is crowed and horrible. Takes forever to get anywhere in that stadium.

But I suspect most of those rankings really isn't about a rando attending ...

 

[GopherGrit]

I don't know what folks are seeing about US Bank stadium, how it looks on TV, just sitting in your seat on a sunny day. I agree those aspects are nice.

The concourse though is crowed and horrible. Takes forever to get anywhere in that stadium.

But I suspect most of those rankings really isn't about a rando attending ...

Any stadium with 50k or more people is never not going to have a crowded concourse unless it's 100 yards wide. Part of the deal.

USBS is 100x better than metrodome there

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Any stadium with 50k or more people is never not going to have a crowded concourse unless it's 100 yards wide. Part of the deal.

USBS is 100x better than metrodome there

US Bank Stadium concourse is terrible and one of the slowest I've ever experienced during vikings games. I'd say it's nearly on par with leaving after a full metrodome game. That's bad.

 

[GopherGrit]

US Bank Stadium concourse is terrible and one of the slowest I've ever experienced during vikings games. I'd say it's nearly on par with leaving after a full metrodome game. That's bad.

How many other NFL game day concourse experiences have you had?

 

[GopherGrit]

That said, they were extremely tight on space they had to work with to shoehorn in USBS.

If they had to make a decision to narrow the concourses in order to preserve more space for a top 3 in-seat and on-field gameday experience ... so be it. Correct decision

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

How many other NFL game day concourse experiences have you had?

Probably a dozen or more.

 

[GopherGrit]

Probably a dozen or more.

OK, well if you say so. I will say I've never had tickets at USBS on the upper concourse, so maybe it's worse up there. You tell me.

Down on the main level I've never really had a problem.

 

[TheBarnyard]

Agreed. And from a poster named TheBarnyard in the middle of March no less! So strange.

Actually the loudest building I’ve ever been to out of all sporting events I’ve been to is the barn. It’s my favorite building in all of sports. I stumbled across this post somehow through a google search.

 

[TheBarnyard]

Why did you bump a thread from 2024 just to rip the Gophers crowd? What a weird first post since 2022.

Go Gophers!!

It came up in a google search and I hadn’t been on gopherhole for awhile so I was curious and clicked on it. Just had to insert some truth into the conversation. The barn is the loudest venue in Minnesota by a mile when it’s going. I’ll add that.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Totally awesome how a thread about a Nebraska Coach from 2024 about the noise at Gopher Stadium can turn into an argument about how loud the Vikes stadium is.

LOL.

 

[Ope3]

You're lying or choosing to be ignorant. That's on you

Your response above is flat out offensive.

The rankings do zero to sway my opinion. The Zygi Dome sucks. I'm aware I am an outlier in that position and am totally fine with that. You could have saved the effort on providing other subjective rankings which I firmly disagree with.

When a movie that I dislike or flat out hate such Everything Everywhere All at Once or Gladiator wins Best Picture I do not all of a sudden change my opinion.

I hate root beer. No matter how much anyone else enjoys the taste, I would actually puke if forced to consume.

None of my trips to the Vikings facility for NFL, Final 4, MSHL football or concerts have been positive experiences. I like the Raiders dome much better. I have enjoyed it all three times I have been there.

Overall ranking among all NFL stadiums​

Across lists from outlets like The Athletic, ESPN, and fan-rating studies, the stadium usually falls somewhere between #1 and about #7 in the entire league.

Examples​

• The Athletic (2023 writers poll) – #1 overall among all NFL stadiums.
• ESPN ranking – #5 overall in the NFL.
• Aggregate fan-review study – #7 overall based on online ratings.

Rough consensus​

If you average across major lists:

Typical range:

• Top 3–7 out of 30–32 NFL stadiums

Relative standing among indoor venues​

Across most rankings:

U.S. Bank Stadium typically ranks:

• #1–#3 among indoor stadiums

For example:

• The Athletic ranking placed it #1 overall, meaning it beat every indoor venue including SoFi and AT&T Stadium.

I find it bizarre you care one iota what I think about it. You do you though.

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

I hate root beer. No matter how much anyone else enjoys the taste, I would actually puke if forced to consume.

Prove it!

 

[Ope3]

Prove it!

Don't wear any light colors within a 15 ft radius.

 

[PMWinSTP]

Your response above is flat out offensive.

The rankings do zero to sway my opinion. The Zygi Dome sucks. I'm aware I am an outlier in that position and am totally fine with that. You could have saved the effort on providing other subjective rankings which I firmly disagree with.

When a movie that I dislike or flat out hate such Everything Everywhere All at Once or Gladiator wins Best Picture I do not all of a sudden change my opinion.

I hate root beer. No matter how much anyone else enjoys the taste, I would actually puke if forced to consume.

None of my trips to the Vikings facility for NFL, Final 4, MSHL football or concerts have been positive experiences. I like the Raiders dome much better. I have enjoyed it all three times I have been there.



I find it bizarre you care one iota what I think about it. You do you though.

Seriously, tell us how you really feel...

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Movie star and action hero Johnny O'Conner meets with a Hollywood studio head to discuss his acting career, but he's totally unable to face the facts.Origina...

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[The Deliberate Stranger]

I don't know what folks are seeing about US Bank stadium, how it looks on TV, just sitting in your seat on a sunny day. I agree those aspects are nice.

The concourse though is crowed and horrible. Takes forever to get anywhere in that stadium.

But I suspect most of those rankings really isn't about a rando attending ...

DG ood there sucks too, target field, target center, The U, The Grand, Allianz, and CHS all have better concessions. Outside of the bank sweet, but it really is a glorified Metrodome on the inside

 

[GophEnEspaña]

So, Nebraska fans are in a perpetual state of coping I see.

 

[MNfootballfan]

Any stadium with 50k or more people is never not going to have a crowded concourse unless it's 100 yards wide. Part of the deal.

USBS is 100x better than metrodome there

I think the Gopher stadium concourse is pretty good. Obviously halftime/end of the game it gets crowded. Never quite understood why there wasn't concessions/bathrooms up on the upper ring of the stadium. It literally pulls the entire stadium into one spot at halftime.

US Bank Stadium is absolutely beautiful when you are in the seats. The concourse is definitely weird. It is wide open, then it bottlenecks, then you have to go up/down escalators to get to seats, etc. Call me old fashioned, but just give me a loop around the stadium. The Metrodome actually had this part right, it was just much too small. US Bank does have many different seating levels, clubs, boxes, etc which I am sure adds some difficulties.

I am not an architect - just a simple man who tries to attend football games and as I am getting older usually results in 1 to 2 trips to the bathroom during that time.

 

[Ope3]

US Bank Stadium is absolutely beautiful when you are in the seats. The concourse is definitely weird. It is wide open, then it bottlenecks, then you have to go up/down escalators to get to seats, etc. Call me old fashioned, but just give me a loop around the stadium. The Metrodome actually had this part right, it was just much too small. US Bank does have many different seating levels, clubs, boxes, etc which I am sure adds some difficulties.

I am not an architect - just a simple man who tried to attend football games and as I am getting older usually results in 1 to 2 trips to the bathroom during that time.

Bolded is a significant reason why I prefer the Las Vegas Raiders football stadium to the Zygi Dome. So much easier to navigate on each level as well as getting up and down.

Sight lines once seated are great.

 

[ergopher]

Totally awesome how a thread about a Nebraska Coach from 2024 about the noise at Gopher Stadium can turn into an argument about how loud the Vikes stadium is.

LOL.

On the internet, if you post about how much you like pancakes others will retort asking why you hate waffles so much.

 

[Some guy]

I think the Gopher stadium concourse is pretty good. Obviously halftime/end of the game it gets crowded. Never quite understood why there wasn't concessions/bathrooms up on the upper ring of the stadium. It literally pulls the entire stadium into one spot at halftime.

US Bank Stadium is absolutely beautiful when you are in the seats. The concourse is definitely weird. It is wide open, then it bottlenecks, then you have to go up/down escalators to get to seats, etc. Call me old fashioned, but just give me a loop around the stadium. The Metrodome actually had this part right, it was just much too small. US Bank does have many different seating levels, clubs, boxes, etc which I am sure adds some difficulties.

I am not an architect - just a simple man who tries to attend football games and as I am getting older usually results in 1 to 2 trips to the bathroom during that time.

Agree with everything you said here

There are parts of US bank stadium where I genuinely worry there will be someone who dies from a crush at some points (top of the escalator landing waiting to go up the next escalator)

If the electric ever went out on top escalator and not the bottom, people on the landing would die.

 

[PMWinSTP]

Agree with everything you said here

There are parts of US bank stadium where I genuinely worry there will be someone who dies from a crush at some points (top of the escalator landing waiting to go up the next escalator)

If the electric ever went out on top escalator and not the bottom, people on the landing would die.

Target center has the same thing with the escalators. They actually shut some off after games for that reason.

 

[Some guy]

Target center has the same thing with the escalators. They actually shut some off after games for that reason.

I am sure USB has protocols in place

But when you have to have protocols it means you have a design that requires humans making choices to prevent disasters in certain circumstances


I love USB from the seats. It’s a mediocre set of entry and exit and concourses though

 

[Ope3]

I love USB from the seats. It’s a mediocre set of entry and exit and concourses though

Mediocre is too kind of a description. For a structure over $1 billion, those short falls should have been solved.

 

[DinkytownDelight]

Baylor is not a program that fills all the stadiums they play in like Nebraska is. Even when they’re good.
His record at Baylor was 1-11
7-6
11-3

But in the 11-3 year the road games after they were in the top 20 were only 2 and they were @3-9 Kansas and @5-7 TCU

He simply hasn’t coached in many big road games as a college coach. In 3 years at Baylor he coached road games in front of just 3 crowds over 60k


In the NFL he coached in 2020 (crowds reduced or not there) and 2021.
His record was 5-11 and 5-11

in those teams he brought a team with a winning record on the road to an opposing stadium just twice.
2-0 Carolina @ 1-1 Houston 2021
2-1 Carolina @ 2-1 Dallas

As a Baylor grad school alum--I will agree that Baylor doesn't fill stadiums from a perspective like Nebraska does because they have a very small alumni base with very few "t-shirt fans", but absolutely disagree that crowd size equals noise. Boone PIckens has 52K people and is twice as loud and much harder to play in than The Big House. Add in Mountaineer Field (WVU) andJack Trice to that list as well.

 

[Some guy]

As a Baylor grad school alum--I will agree that Baylor doesn't fill stadiums from a perspective like Nebraska does because they have a very small alumni base with very few "t-shirt fans", but absolutely disagree that crowd size equals noise. Boone PIckens has 52K people and is twice as loud and much harder to play in than The Big House. Add in Mountaineer Field (WVU) andJack Trice to that list as well.

They can be.

Rhule brought an 0-5 team to T Boone Pickens stadium and lost by 40. Guessing it wasn’t that loud

Brought a 3-3 team to Morgantown and lost 58-14 guessing it was loud for about a quarter until the game was over

Won by 18 at OK state his third year. Ok state was 4-2
Probably the loudest one. Was a close game entering the third quarter.


I also disagree that crowd size equals noise but I think crowd size, intensity of the game, design of the stadium, and the percent of capacity filled all greatly contribute to noise.




Boone Pickens stadium is hard to play in when they’re good. They’re currently on a 10 game home losing streak vs FBS opponents