Lindy's whining about cowbells.

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (KennyB) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:24:38 GMT

if any stadium gets over a certain decible level. Why is it fair that a team can't hear in Tiger Stadium, but not Scott Field?

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feeds@yuku.com (WillemWallace) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:54:05 GMT

to hear, then it is a problem.

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feeds@yuku.com (Todd4State) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:10:37 GMT

if you're worried about what the fans have in the stands, you have MUCH bigger problems. And yes, isn't the whole issue here that the noise from cowbells affects teams from getting their plays in and checks and things like that, therefore possibly affecting the outcome of the game?

Let me say this- UCF had a bunch of thundersticks(xx) at the Liberty Bowl last year, and I had no problem with it. If UT had 100,000 people with thundersticks, I would not have a problem with it...

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feeds@yuku.com (Optimus Prime 4) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:57:38 GMT

nor is the PA announcer allowed to talk. Cell phones? That's just stupid.

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feeds@yuku.com (KennyB) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:22:01 GMT

decible meters on each sideline at every SEC stadium. The head official gets a wireless led light that lights up when the sound goes over a certain decible reading, which results in a penality. Do away with all rules for artificial noicemakers, whatever that means anyways.

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feeds@yuku.com (MaroonInNashville) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:23:02 GMT

I recall Jackie having some sound system cords cut at Neyland due to the UTK's amping of the crowd noise through the stadium PA. There is no way that does not constitute "artificial noise". I seem to recall another SEC opponent in the last few years using those God-awful thundersticks (Bama? Auburn? hell I can't remember). As far as I am concerned the SEC can sit on a cowbell and rotate.

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feeds@yuku.com (state2006) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:46:45 GMT

the PA system, the band's instruments, and the refs whistle are all forms of artificial noise. my cell's ringtone is a form of artificial noise too. ban that shit and i will stop bringing by bell in. i thought there was also rules on excessive crowd noise, artificial or not. dws has never came close to reaching the highest sound levels of places like knoxville, gainesville, baton rogue or auburn. all we are doing is ringing them not throwing them over the second level like lsu fans do...

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (bulldogbaja) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:38:39 GMT

That drives me crazy. Although apparently there's a new tradition- hold your cowbell over your head by the bell while the offense is on the field. Or maybe its not new and I just noticed.

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feeds@yuku.com (Hair of the Dawg) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:02:22 GMT

why not do this SEC?

Take the number of seats in every stadium in the confernce, figure out what the highest decible level would be using male fan ( surely the highest attendents ) and allow each team a precentage of that decible level based on seating. Maybe that would even the playing field and take away the advantage from the power house known as MSU.

*#%* OFF

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (WillemWallace) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:04:27 GMT

KurtRambis4 wrote:
care, honestly. if you're team's getting beat by some guy with a cowbell, then you are either a) coached by crooms or b) a bad team or c) both

You have a bad case of stupid.

Nobody has said that a team would get beaten by the cowbells.

But to sit there and act like it isn't a factor (that, according to the rules, shouldn't be a factor) is simply...

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (KurtRambis4) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:43:29 GMT

care, honestly. if you're team's getting beat by some guy with a cowbell, then you are either a) coached by crooms or b) a bad team or c) both

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (DovaDawg) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:08:48 GMT

But, what if every time Mississippi State got into an offensive huddle, they started blaring those horns. As State came up to the line of scrimmage, they got even louder. And, they saved their highest decibels for the seconds before the ball is supposed to be snapped. And, they never stopped. They did it on every State offensive play. Every one.

I say let them do it. Kind of hard to...

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (WillemWallace) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:49:04 GMT

ArrowDawg wrote:
Because, after all, it's sooo much louder than the fan noise at UF, UT, LSU, etc. Yep, we should be ashamed.

I have to give a little credit to Tuberville. At least he didn't whine about them.

Lets think about this from another perspective...

Would you be fine with LSU, UT, UF, etc being able to bring in "artificial noisemakers" such as air horns or...

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (Shmuley) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:59:21 GMT

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feeds@yuku.com (Jackdragbean) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:55:33 GMT

It's just plain un-American if you're against cowbells. I could see that rant as a good rebuttal to that article. You should post it there too. Brilliant!

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feeds@yuku.com (falzaergo) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:43:32 GMT

she neglected to mention "when the MSU offense breaks the huddle and is trying to remember what play they just called".

Sure it is distracting, but our fans are equal-opportunity distractors.

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (KurtRambis4) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:35:12 GMT

"artificial" about a bell making a bell noise....so when fans cheer, is that not artificial?

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feeds@yuku.com (dawgatUSM) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:30:09 GMT

i hate this crap year in and year out... it is our one solid tradition that has been around forever... let's write articles how hotty toddy, rocky top, and pig sooey should be banned... that annoying pig sound always gets on my dang nerves...

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feeds@yuku.com (Mutt the Hoople) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:59:40 GMT

It's one of the few (if only) Mississippi traditions that hasn't been eliminated by the 14th Amendment, the 1965 Civil Rights Act, and/or Political Correctness (see the USM "Southerners", the Delta State "Statesmen", and of course the Rebel flag), and STILL the punks want to ban our cowbell.

You tell a black man to wave a Confederate flag or don a Colonel Sanders suit, he's liable to kick your ass. You ask him to ring a cowbell, he can do it in good...

Re: Lindy's whining about cowbells.

feeds@yuku.com (hooch1275) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:43:13 GMT

UpTheMiddlex3Punt wrote:
When four military jets flew overhead before kickoff, the cowbells were so loud that on the sideline they drowned out the jet's sonic boom.

I wasn't at the game, but I'm pretty sure low altitude supersonic travel over land ain't done, especially around buildings with windows and large crowds.http://www.lindyssports.com/content.php?id=2673

Cowbells and riverboat horns ... bogus rules and fair play

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