Top 10 biggest stadiums

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

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[TheJON]

Top 3 are Big-10 stadiums. Rack the Big-10 fans. Best in the country!

[buckeye_in_sc]

What no strawberry fields...

I call BULLSHIT

sin,

m2OOOL

[Left Seater]

I have seen games in 10, 9, and 5.

I have also been inside 4 and 2.


Horrible to watch games in 10 and 9. So I am guessing that watching one at 2 would also suck. Problem with these old bowl designs are you can end up two miles from the field. Plus there are only like 30 tunnels into the stadium which means that way to many people have to go thru the same spot making it crazy over crowded.

[BlindRef]

I think Michigan still has Penn State beat, unless I missed something:

Penn State: 107,282
Michigan: 107,501

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Link says Michigan Stadium: 106,201

But you chould check 10 different sources and get 10 different sets of numbers.

[PSUFAN]

As I understand it, Michigan's renovations cost them a few seats temporarily. When the renovations are completed, they'll be #1 again.

[TheJON]

I have always wanted to go see a game at Rocky Top and I have a chance to do that this September, but they're playing UAB and I'm not wasting a trip to see UT play UAB. I could maybe go that first week of October, but again, they're playing a crap team (NIU).

LSU is another place I'd like to see a game, but I'm not going down there to see App St, Troy, or North Texas.

This is what pisses me off about college football. If you want to go see a game in September you're stuck watching 1 good team play 1 really bad team. Fucking lame!

[WolverineSteve]

As I understand it, Michigan's renovations cost them a few seats temporarily. When the renovations are completed, they'll be #1 again.

True.

[Shoalzie]

What no strawberry fields...

I call BULLSHIT

sin,

m2OOOL

If they included the tree dwellars, they've got to be pretty close to the top 10.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

RACK TheJON. You just knew that hook wouldn't go untouched.

[TheJON]

The Big-10 matches up with anyone if you go by the top 6.

Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan State all pack their stadiums.

Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, Illinois, and Indiana all have pretty lame fans that hurt the overall attendance of the conference.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I think Illinois is projected to sell out all their home games this year...or come close to it.

[Dinsdale]

As I understand it, Michigan's renovations cost them a few seats temporarily. When the renovations are completed, they'll be #1 again.

And they'd STILL get completely drowned out by a handful of Duckfans.


Laughing my fucking balls off at the "best fans" crack. They got schooled on how to act at a football game by a few people in their own fucking house.

[M Club]

I think Illinois is projected to sell out all their home games this year...or come close to it.

probably. the point still remains their fans are lame and won't go to the game unless they think illi's going to the rose bowl. msu, on the other hand, has done everything possible to drive their fans crazy enough to give up on them, but spartan stadium is always a few minutes after kickoff. after halftime is a different story.

And they'd STILL get completely drowned out by a handful of Duckfans.


Laughing my fucking balls off at the "best fans" crack. They got schooled on how to act at a football game by a few people in their own fucking house.

you have weird obsessions. autzen benefits from acoustics, not fans who are any more rabid than any other team's. if you think their [fans] performance at michigan stadium was anything unusual then i'll refer you to iowa.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

after halftime is a different story.

I see you working, but that wasn't the case last year, as they had a solid chance to win every single game they played. I don't suspect it'll be the case this year either.

[Dinsdale]

if you think their [fans] performance at michigan stadium was anything unusual then i'll refer you to iowa.

I heard multiple accounts from people in attendence --



Oregon fan > Michifag.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

That doesn't surprise me, Dins. MichiganFan didn't have much to cheer for that day.

[Dinsdale]

MichiganFan... that day.

That day?


Does the nickname "110,000 Quietest People In The Country" ring any bells with you?

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

It doesn't need to...I've been there. You?

65 year old alums are pretty passionate about their team...I'll give them that. Even if they aren't hammered off their asses acting like a bunch of clowns.

[M Club]

if you think their [fans] performance at michigan stadium was anything unusual then i'll refer you to iowa.

I heard multiple accounts from people in attendence --



Oregon fan > Michifag.

like i said, i'll refer you to iowa. michigan generally allots 5000 tickets to visiting fans. sometimes that team beats michigan pretty handily and those 5000 fans are pretty vocal compared to the michigan fans who have nothing to cheer about. invariably some corporate white trash-type with a mustache and a polo shirt tucked into his shorts will make it sound as if we were screaming, they were screaming, but we were louder. i'm sure that Oregon fan [5000]> Michifag [105,000] would have held if the game were close, or that Autzen is a rocking in the 4th quarter with usc up by 30 points. i wouldn't kid myself.

as for 110,000 quietest fans, again, acoustics. it'll be a much louder stadium next year with the exact same fan base.

[MuchoBulls]

I'm still kicking myself for not going to our game at Penn State back in 2005.

[Dinsdale]

as for 110,000 quietest fans, again, acoustics.

While I'll certainly grant that Autzen has an acoustical advantage...


Come the fuck on. Those rumors you've heard are true.

Have you even been to a game at Autzen? Sure getting the impression you haven't.


BTW-you're in PDX now? The Bite, next Friday evening. Crazy 8's reunion. Be there, or be square-headed.

[M Club]

as for 110,000 quietest fans, again, acoustics.

While I'll certainly grant that Autzen has an acoustical advantage...


Come the fuck on. Those rumors you've heard are true.

Have you even been to a game at Autzen? Sure getting the impression you haven't.


BTW-you're in PDX now? The Bite, next Friday evening. Crazy 8's reunion. Be there, or be square-headed.

i've been to a game in autzen. the michigan game, in fact. and yes, it was fucking loud, which is something i'm not disputing. i even talked to a player after that season who told me he felt like his ear drums were going to explode. i've been on both the autzen and michigan stadium fields and autzen looks a lot taller, which helps explain why half as many fans can be twice as loud.

the acoustics at michigan stadium play into the caricature of michigan fans as 130-year-old alumni who won't die but won't stand for a football game either. while it's true that the very first graduating class [1817] still shows up at homecoming and spends more time yelling "down in front" than cheering on the football team, we still have our fair share of white trash sporting tazmanian devil/block m tattoos as any sec team and are just as likely to scream, yell, and cuss, which you'd hear if the stadium wasn't a big bowl that leaked sound into the ether. i've been to numerous games where the entire crowd stood yelling their heads off for no good reason because the sound isn't harnessed. shit, ask psu and 88. we went to the michigan/osu game together in 2003. it's impossible to imagine a group of 112,000 people being appreciably louder in the same environment. [aTm fans, i suppose, since they're the only ones i know of who stand a particular way to harvest full volume from their voices.]

i'm in sw, multnomah village. the bite? i do think we frequent the same watering hole, though: the space room.

[King Crimson]

we used to play one of the Crazy 8's records at the music store where i worked in junior high--so, they were active in the mid 80's i guess. it was pretty deece "college rock" (as Rolling Stone used to say then...) stuff as i recall. do they play reunion shows a lot, or is the "the reunion" show? those guys are getting on in age.

[Dinsdale]

i'm in sw, multnomah village. the bite? i do think we frequent the same watering hole, though: the space room.

I'm not far off Greenburg in Tigard...semi-neighbor. I've spent my fair share of time in Multnomah. "The Village." Love the wings at O'Connors. And pool at The Ship. And brews at Lucky Lab. Old Market right up the road. Rockin' part of town, the Village. Spent lots and lots of time there, actually.


KC -- last reunion I remember was the 20 year anniversary of their first album, which was 4 years ago. Great, great show. Those guys were really young when they started, so they're still on this side of 50.


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[PSUFAN]

The game we went to in Ann Arbor was supposedly the largest CFB attendance ever. I was amazed at how loud it was. We were smack in the middle of the student section.

The only thing I really disliked about the Big House was the low slope of the stands, which situates you pretty far away from the action. I will say that the Beav is a little better for game viewing because you are higher up in the air. This is a minor criticism,though...both places are pretty awesome when they are full.

I actually miss the Beav's view of Mt. Nittany that was obscured by the south end deck some time back.

[M Club]

That UM photo must have been taken 2 seconds after the Appalachian State game last year.

definitely. if you pan out you'd find half the crowd to the east knocking down carr's door at schembechler hall and the other half to the north in front of an empty building wondering [1] where did leopold's go? and [2] why is psufan still running around with his shirt off?

[M Club]

i'm in sw, multnomah village. the bite? i do think we frequent the same watering hole, though: the space room.

I'm not far off Greenburg in Tigard...semi-neighbor. I've spent my fair share of time in Multnomah. "The Village." Love the wings at O'Connors. And pool at The Ship. And brews at Lucky Lab. Old Market right up the road. Rockin' part of town, the Village. Spent lots and lots of time there, actually.

i was actually looking pretty heavily into a job down your way, at the durham center right next to tigard hs. i was hoping to run their junior high alternative program, but they hired someone else out of the blue. guess i'll have to peddle my esl skills to go along with my broken spanish.

mv is pretty nice. it definitely feels like its own small town and not part of actual portland. i hit the ship up quite a bit in the summer because i've never bothered in my life to actually buy a telly, and the tigers play the sox quite a bit so i can catch the game there as well as drink an old style to pretend i actually liked living in chicago.

oliver mtukudzi is playing at the zoo tomorrow. $10, great musician.

[Danimal]

I have seen games in 10, 9, and 5.

I have also been inside 4 and 2.


Horrible to watch games in 10 and 9. So I am guessing that watching one at 2 would also suck. Problem with these old bowl designs are you can end up two miles from the field. Plus there are only like 30 tunnels into the stadium which means that way to many people have to go thru the same spot making it crazy over crowded.

True dat, the bigger the stadium the more crappy seats you generally have, especially in the college-game where you have old warhorses being expanded-out rather than newer stadiums like in the NFL which go up more. I love my alma mater but I'm just not interested in shelling-out a one to several grand"donation" plus ticket-price just so I can sit in a seat where I gotta watch half the action on the bigscreen because I can't see jack. Now if I could get a game-experience more like Arrowhead(up high rather than far and more likely along the sidelines than the endzones) then I could see shelling-out big $$ for season tickets.

[King Crimson]

I love my alma mater but I'm just not interested in shelling-out a one to several grand"donation" plus ticket-price just so I can sit in a seat where I gotta watch half the action on the bigscreen because I can't see jack. Now if I could get a game-experience more like Arrowhead(up high rather than far and more likely along the sidelines than the endzones) then I could see shelling-out big $$ for season tickets.

well, to be fair, a disproportionate many of the seats in Memorial Stadium (Lincoln) ARE in the end zones....and kind of high up/away.

i hate to say this, but i would not pay what it costs to see OU play these days. my family has had two sets of season tix since the 50's. i've been to a lot of games at Owen Field (every game from 75-88, 2 NC's)....smattering of others. call me a bad fan, hey. my dad's tickets are corporate these days, it's not the same. i'd rather spend a month in Mexico or Belize in the summer than 6 days at the Gaylord Family Memorial Whatever.

if i was living in Oklahoma, i would not slack on buying basketball tickets, mind you. this year, all years.

[Dinsdale]

oliver mtukudzi is playing at the zoo tomorrow. $10, great musician.

Way too much whine and cheese going on at Zoo shows for my taste. Stick your pinky out a little further, yuppy.


It's like they took the crowd from John's Market during a wine tasting and moved them to the Zoo.

If you don't know yet -- avoid John's like the freaking plague during wine tasting days (usually saturday afternoons, IIRC). Place becomes this really creepy meat-market for homos. But I give them a pass the rest of the time, since that's one staggering beer selection they have. But I sure get creeped out when the gays are trolling it -- it's a freaking grocery store, for chrissakes.

[Danimal]

I love my alma mater but I'm just not interested in shelling-out a one to several grand"donation" plus ticket-price just so I can sit in a seat where I gotta watch half the action on the bigscreen because I can't see jack. Now if I could get a game-experience more like Arrowhead(up high rather than far and more likely along the sidelines than the endzones) then I could see shelling-out big $$ for season tickets.

well, to be fair, a disproportionate many of the seats in Memorial Stadium (Lincoln) ARE in the end zones....and kind of high up/away.

i hate to say this, but i would not pay what it costs to see OU play these days. my family has had two sets of season tix since the 50's. i've been to a lot of games at Owen Field (every game from 75-88, 2 NC's)....smattering of others. call me a bad fan, hey. my dad's tickets are corporate these days, it's not the same. i'd rather spend a month in Mexico or Belize in the summer than 6 days at the Gaylord Family Memorial Whatever.

if i was living in Oklahoma, i would not slack on buying basketball tickets, mind you. this year, all years.

That's the problem, too many seats in Memorial Stadium are in the endzones. I'm not going to pay out the wazoo to sit in the endzone. That is all that has been added, luxury-boxes and more endzone seats. I'll pay face-value for endzone but that is about it.

[M Club]

oliver mtukudzi is playing at the zoo tomorrow. $10, great musician.

Way too much whine and cheese going on at Zoo shows for my taste. Stick your pinky out a little further, yuppy.


It's like they took the crowd from John's Market during a wine tasting and moved them to the Zoo.

If you don't know yet -- avoid John's like the freaking plague during wine tasting days (usually saturday afternoons, IIRC). Place becomes this really creepy meat-market for homos. But I give them a pass the rest of the time, since that's one staggering beer selection they have. But I sure get creeped out when the gays are trolling it -- it's a freaking grocery store, for chrissakes.

whatevs. i listen to quite a bit of african music and two of the continent's biggest musicians have passed through pdx within seven days of each other and i paid $20 to see them both. that a certain demographic - one whose buying habits aren't affected those of a gay man shopping for beer - will also be present doesn't determine whether or not i'll go see someone live whom i've been listening to for years.

i'm only in john's long enough to buy a beer i've never had before to call it an adventure. to tell the truth, i buy more gatorade their than i do beer.

[Dinsdale]

i'm only in john's long enough to buy a beer i've never had before to call it an adventure.

And that's the crazy thing about that place -- you could try a new one every day... for about 3 years.


And I guess if you're new to the area, the Bite recommendation wasn't to be taken lightly. It's at Waterfront Park. A bunch of local restaurants set up booths, and each offers a couple of dishes. And they have music. Not quite the marquee names they've had in thwe past (they're pretty streaky when it comes to big names), but the Crazy 8's celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Day of the *'s (8/8/88), which is a legendary day amongst local dweebs in my age range (they did 8 impromptu concerts all over town, without any sort of permission for the cities, on the bed of a flatbed truck, in the middle of the road, blocking traffic). In the last few years, I've seen... let me think... pretty sure Death Cab opened for They Might Be Giants. Decemberists opened for Violent Femmes (who are still good).


But anyhoo -- I think they charge $8 or $10 these days (always used to be $5), and it's always a very, very good, albeit crowded, time.


And you'll meet chicks.


Lots.