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Lions head coach Jim Schwartz credited the crowds effort for the 9 (not a typo) false start penalties committed by the Bears last night on MNF.
As good as the crowd was on Sunday (idk I wasn't there, but judging from the last game I was at, I find it hard to believe they were anything but average.) does anyone think the crowd at the razor is capable of a performance even close to that?
I think a personel change is in order. Let's get the fans who can't afford these prices in there. You know, the ones who actually want to be there for the right reasons?
I know it will never happen but, imagine an experiment where for one home game, ticket prices are dramatically reduced. I firmly believe we would see a big difference in crowd performance! But who knows maybe that would fail, and maybe I'm just bitter because I'm a poor college student lol.
Sure, put a roof over the Gillette crowd and we'll sound the same. Here's some perspective for you that illustrates the problem with our stadium. I sat in my regular seats for the game, which is 2nd to last row, Sec. 236, adjacent to and now, due to Robert Kraft's HUGE expansion of the club, surrounded by the indoor club on the visitors side. There is a roof over me and now a glass wall behind me. Our section was rocking for the whole game - it sounded very loud to me; a good crowd for Gillette. My husband sat in Sec. 110, in the last row of the bottom tier, almost 50 yard line, behind the Pats bench. The back of that section is open to the main concourse. He said the crowd was quiet from where he sat. WE WERE AT THE SAME GAME!!
PS - I swore to myself that I would not answer any more "crowd noise" threads as they just annoy me. The stadium sucks because of its construction; the crowd is in general more reserved because we are a bunch of New Englanders who frown upon yahoo behavior to a certain extent; for the most part the people who go to the games are into it and cheering when appropriate, it just doesn't translate on TV. Deal with it or find a way to go so you can take matters into your own hands to make it better.