Colts 12th man vs. Seattles 12th Man

[BlueShoe]

Perched like a meringue pie in the middle of downtown Indianapolis, the RCA Dome is one of the loudest stadiums in the N.F.L. After the Steelers lost, 26-7, to the Colts here on Nov. 28, one Steelers official complained to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the Colts had amplified the fans' roar. The N.F.L. found no evidence to support that, although Commissioner Paul Tagliabue recently issued a memo saying teams could lose draft picks if they enhance stadium noise.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/sports/football/15colts.html?_r=0

 

 

The National Football League cleared the Colts on Monday of complaints made by the Patriots — and first reported by Yahoo Sports — that the Colts had pumped artificial crowd noise into the RCA Dome during Sunday’s game.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/sports/football/06patriots.html

 

 

The RCA Dome in Indianapolis was so loud that the Colts were accused of pumping in fake noise.  No one is accusing the Colts of doing that at the new Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/11/11/lucas-oil-stadium/

 

The dome of the RCA dome may come off this weekend. No, the Colts haven't decided to make this game an outdoor game. I'm saying this because the RCA dome is going to be the loudest it has ever been this Sunday and is probably going to be the loudest thing ever recorded on this earth.

 

http://www.aolnews.com/2007/01/20/the-dome-of-the-rca-dome-may-come-off-this-weekend/

[funktacious2]

When you see cameras going through the crowd at Lucas Oil, you can literally see tons of people just sitting there like they have know idea whats going, whos on the team, what a 1st down is, who anyone is outside of Andrew Luck or Reggie Wayne and maybe Antoine Bethea is, we are no where near the level of loud and rauckus as several fan bases in the league if were being honest....Kinda sad really, I'd be all kinds of loud if I could afford to go to the games

That's just silly no stadium has people standing and cheering all game long. There is tons of down time like when there are commercials, time outs, in between scoring and there's no cheering on offense at all until after a play is made, but more importantly from my experience LOS gets plenty loud when it counts. It's cool of Matt to say the fans should cheer even when Seattle is in the huddle, and maybe some fan bases would, but I don't see it really happening, but don't make it sound so bad. These are still die hard Colts fans out there, they're going to cheer their team on with vigor. Some teams don't even fill every seat remember.

[Andy]

Get back to me when LOS creates a seismic quake.

 

Both teams' fans are crazy, but they have architectural design on their side as well as a few more thousand fans in the stadium.

 

They win this one.

[Narcosys]

Man...you guys are so lucky.  I really wish i get stationed at fort Campbell next.  I know season tickets are out of the question for me, but i'll still be going to every game.

[Indianapolis-Colts-Fan]

I hate all that closing the roof cause of rain crap, they are big boys, let um get dirty and nasty

While I agree with you on this, it doesn't matter about our turf, we have no drainage system on our field which really sucked when I found out. We have no intention of having the roof open for anything but good weather.

[jvan1973]

read my last sentence, I find it funny you would come off as arrogant as you do on a large amount of your posts

i understand not being able to afford tickets. I don't understand dogging the fans because you see them sitting on their hands coming off of a commercial break. I have been to several games and while LOS isn't as loud as the dome was, it gets plenty loud in there

[BlueBlood713]

Never been to LOS....currently planning an 8 hr drive up for the Texans game in December.  If I pay for gas, hotel, tickets, eats, and get hyped with my fellow blue blood nation before the game tail gaiting, I know D@*n well im makin' LOTS OF NOISE in there!!!!

[dudeski]

When you see cameras going through the crowd at Lucas Oil, you can literally see tons of people just sitting there like they have know idea whats going, whos on the team, what a 1st down is, who anyone is outside of Andrew Luck or Reggie Wayne and maybe Antoine Bethea is, we are no where near the level of loud and rauckus as several fan bases in the league if were being honest....Kinda sad really, I'd be all kinds of loud if I could afford to go to the games

i agree

 

our fanbase is pretty bad about getting up and getting loud.  it is pathetic

[jvan1973]

Should we revisit this topic today. I think the crowd was awesome yesterday