- Please, for the love of everything that is good and right, make the playcaller stop yelling IT'S THIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD on Every. Single. Third. Down. The caller should only do it on third downs of subjective consequence, otherwise it's just exhausting to the crowd. After about six of these in a row, no one is going to get wound up for noise on the 7th yell, we're done with it. Only do this when it really matters.
- To that end, when we are sucking, please stop clanging the bells of doom on third down, because after you've rung them a few times and we didn't get the stops, it starts to sound more like a signal to surrender than a signal to stiffen up. It's embarrassing.
- Other than the Northwestern game this year, the start of 4th quarter pick me ups (redout and fire with AC/DC, etc) have ended up not working out as loss after loss stacked up. At this point it too almost feels like the signal of surrender. Can we maybe consider not doing that again until we've got a string of 3 or more home wins? It's really cool, but its reputation is also badly damaged by the 2021 season.
- End zone spectators wouldn't mind also getting hot dogs launched at them some day. We feel left out.
Also, why are we not also launching Runzas from that thing? - When you're going to single out something during time outs on the field or in the stands (the POW/MIA seat, for example), consider finding some way to have someone with a big red flag or something to help call attention to that spot, whether it is on the field or in the seats. Wave it for about five seconds and then just hold it. Some of us who attend a number of games know where to look, but a lot of people stop paying attention to the video presentation and crane around trying to figure out where the cameras are pointing, and summarily miss the presentation in frustration. If they knew where to look, they'd look for a second or two, and then they'd look back at the screen and actually watch the whole presentation someone worked so hard to prepare or actually watch the feed that the on-field crew is working so hard to get right. And no, I'm not suggesting that for the random fan shots, lol....
- There's a row of glass-fronted beverage coolers down in the SW corner of the stadium under the south end zone across from the concession windows. And staff sets up a temporary tent cover over the people working them. This creates a crazy painful pinch point road block for the crowd masses at the beginning of the game, and honestly it's not very safe because the tent poles are at an angle so that in a heavy crowd they're easy to just stumble into. Someone is going to trip and fall down and sue you. Move those coolers somewhere else or quit with the tent cover.
- The noise decibel meter screen's number is, I'm quite sure, just a fake animation. I also can't imagine it would be very hard to install a real feed to that screen to show how loud the stadium actually is, it's not like we don't have a gazillion other dynamic numeric inputs that we manage to show on screen (clock, score, yards, attempts, TOP, all that....). Trying to make the crowd louder by showing them a fake number they can't change is... discouraging. If the actual decibel number is lower than what you've been trotting out on the fake screen, just pad the real one so it gets in the ballpark, but let it be an actual live number that the crowd can actually change.
I'm sure I'll think of more. If any of you HMers have additional thoughts, agreements with the above or disagreements, please post your replies so everyone is heard......
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