Why is seattle stadium so loud

Despite this, it's not small. It holds 67, fans, and they are piled steeply to form a tube of swirling sound. These canopies are shaped like parabolas , and they point the sound back at the field.

Adding to all this are the aluminum bleachers that fill the stands by the north end zone. When stomped on, these create an almighty racket. BY Nick Greene. But why is CenturyLink so loud? Put all these factors together, and you have a recipe for one loud stadium.

CenturyLink offers compactness: it's built on the smallest footprint of any NFL stadium with heavily steeped seating close to the field. At 67, seats, Niemuth said containment, not size, proves primary. Open air proves the biggest threat to noise, soaking up the decibels. But the Seahawks covered 70 percent of all seats -- also to protect fans from the often rainy weather -- serving to deflect fan-generated noise back toward the field.

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Greisemer said that making crowd noise such a factor as the stadium was taken into consideration when it was built. The fact that it is loud is really kind of a result of a number of things that came about just through the design. It's on a very small site, comparatively to other stadiums, and because of that we had to compress the building very tightly," Greisemer said.

So that combined with the desire to have a large roof covering, so fans are protected, really kind of combined the greatest of convergence of storms into a great environment.

The noise on the field has been compared to that of standing next to a jet engine, making it very difficult for players on offense to communicate with their teammates, leading to false start and delay of game penalties. Something Pederson is well aware of, and preparing his team for. The point of emphasis this week obviously is to be able to handle that and minimize those penalties.