puckyeah
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- May 23, 2012
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There's been a lot made of the Jets and their great and blisteringly loud fans, so i thought to ask if there's a way crowds can get better at "rattling" the road team?
I think a loud crowd doesn't really affect the road team, but a blistering crowd does affect the road team somewhat, even if it just gives extra energy to the home team.
Most of us have been at games where the crowd was really into the game, was as loud as you could imagine, but i've noticed something that happens at these games and that is rooting and screaming like a madman (or woman) is TIRING. Its physical work and there's not an unlimited amount of "noise" in the tank. I've always thought it was silly for the scoreboard operator to flash "make some noise" on the scoreboard during the pregame intros....that's 'wasted noise' that you can't get back, its noise you want to save for the final moments of the game and yet, no team or organization has ever been smart enough to ask their crowd to "save their voices' and not to make a peep until the puck is dropped.
Do you think that crowds could get 'smarter' about how and when they cheer and what and when they chant things and do you think that wall of noise affects the road team, or its just a situation where the home team gets energy and the road team isn't really negatively affected at all?
I think a loud crowd doesn't really affect the road team, but a blistering crowd does affect the road team somewhat, even if it just gives extra energy to the home team.
Most of us have been at games where the crowd was really into the game, was as loud as you could imagine, but i've noticed something that happens at these games and that is rooting and screaming like a madman (or woman) is TIRING. Its physical work and there's not an unlimited amount of "noise" in the tank. I've always thought it was silly for the scoreboard operator to flash "make some noise" on the scoreboard during the pregame intros....that's 'wasted noise' that you can't get back, its noise you want to save for the final moments of the game and yet, no team or organization has ever been smart enough to ask their crowd to "save their voices' and not to make a peep until the puck is dropped.
Do you think that crowds could get 'smarter' about how and when they cheer and what and when they chant things and do you think that wall of noise affects the road team, or its just a situation where the home team gets energy and the road team isn't really negatively affected at all?