Is Buffalo now considered the most intimidating/hardest stadium to play in for opponents?

[Buffalo Junction]

8 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Outdoor stadiums are known to be the loudest. Not domes. I think it's due to the reverberation in the dome causing some noise to cancel itself out. I'm no expert, though.

Air conditions actively affect sound waves. Colder air makes sound travel further but slower (resting state of atoms). Sound waves actually bend away from heat and back towards the ground -field- which benefits the home team. Humidity by contrast makes sound travel faster due to increased density from microscopic water droplets. WNY weather has an interesting combination where the cold lengthens the wave -distance- of sound while the lake effect humidity can speed up the travel while the heat dissipation from fans makes sound waves amplify around the field itself. Seattle benefits from that combination as well due to the North Pacific weather.

Edited December 13, 2022 by Buffalo Junction

[ExiledInIllinois]

9 hours ago, Matt_In_NH said:

Probably...I will say even though the fans might make the most noise, it is not the loudest place but that is due to how it is made with the seats going out at a lower upward slope than other stadiums and obviously not being in a dome.  The loudest place I ever was was the Houston playoff game, when they were coming back and made some big plays that place was insane due to its design.

Sure they weren't piping noise in? They do it in domes...

[Dick_Cheney]

Yes, because the weather is so ***** not even the home team can play in it. 

[cba fan]

10 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

how many severe weather games are there in Buffalo in Oct/Nov/December?

it only takes one or two lost because Bills Offense not made for it, to swing the playoff home field. 

Like Pats game last year.

[14774]

I think in the modern NFL where teams don't practice as often during the season, have fancy indoor practice facilities and are generally weenies, game-time weather conditions aren't the advantage they used to be. Crowd noise on the other hand, can be.

[Matt_In_NH]

7 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Sure they weren't piping noise in? They do it in domes...

Yes sure

[Mr. WEO]

7 hours ago, cba fan said:

it only takes one or two lost because Bills Offense not made for it, to swing the playoff home field. 

Like Pats game last year.

which team is built for Buffalo type weather?

[Jerome007]

I hate to say it, I really do ha ha, but fans make more noise in Seattle and KC. Still, few teams like to play in Winter weather - and that likely includes many Bills player ha ha, but at least they are used to it.

 

Now let's ice the Fins' bench and turn up the AC in their locker room., for what they did to the Bills earlier.

[Greg S]

This was a quote from a Jets fan on the stadium posted at jetsnation...

 

 

.I could not believe how loud that stadium was yesterday in Buffalo... Like 4 met life stadiums stacked on top of each other.. was deafening.