Yes, they probably can see every touchdown. LSU set up a system years after this happened where they looked at readings and you could see marked activity when touchdowns were likely occuring. I know the LSU Band taking the field usually showed a nice marking. However, that stuff you're posting is not saying much. You've got an article posted talking about activity increasing at 7 a.m. at Florida on gamedays. I've been there very early on a gameday, it's as quiet as can be except for incoming traffic. That's the "background" noise they're talking about. Yes, heavy traffic can register because we are talking about the ground shaking here. Just as LSU's readings showed nice markings whenever the train passed on Saturdays. Here is what it's about: Riley Milner, research associate with the Louisiana Geological Survey, was the first one to discover the seismograph reading. He walked into the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex on the Monday after the game, and the seismogram caught his eye. “I saw a very distinct recording of something and my first reaction was, ‘What in the world is this?’” he said. He took the seismogram to Donald Stevenson, the researcher then in charge of LSU’s seismic program. “We tried to figure out what it might be, and we backed up the time and realized it coordinated perfectly with the time of the touchdown,” Milner said. “It was a total surprise. We never expected the seismograph to pick up the ground shaking from a football game.” Even more of a surprise was that the seismogram showed 15 to 20 minutes of recorded ground shaking. That’s right — 15 to 20 minutes. “It was a solid register of jubilation in the stadium,” Milner said. Juan Lorenzo, associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, “It’s unusual,” he said. “It was a significant blot on the seismogram.” It's not about some activity just showing up. It was that it was such a significant reading to them (15 to 20 minutes). No matter what, it is a great story because it wasn't something contrived. It just happened and these LSU Geologists were genuinely surprised. It was 4th and long and LSU's last chance to win with time running out. Looking at how the game had gone, it seemed seriously unlikely that we were going to somehow get it in the end zone. I was a little kid, but I'll never forget it. I can honestly say it was the game that I became an LSU fan. I was somewhat aware of LSU before that game (wore the LSU clothes, etc.) but never had sat down and really watched a game. My dad and brothers were watching and their excitement leading up to that drive caught my attention. So I stood there with them watching that drive and just started feeling nervous myself with all the excitement. When Fuller caught that TD from Hodson, that is something I will never forget. The crowd, the players, my family and me going nuts, etc. After that moment, I was hooked.
Yes. I was in tallahassee and heard Tiger Stadium crowd from there. Everyone around me said "what's that noise?" I said "Tiger Stadium"
I was gonna say the same thing. Gameday at Florida sucks. I also found out you can't drink competitively at Florida. They barely allow you to drink on gamedays, and def. not competitively. :lol:
that OSU game was definitely something i won't forget. that downpour was brutal. never seen anything like that before. that game had sooo many ups and downs and all-arounds...
It's not just a matter of decibels in Tiger Stadium. The crowd can get raucous. And they have a way of getting the Tigers pumped up and unsettling opponents. Take the 2003 Georgia game. They make a long TD run to take the lead late in the game. It was the kind of crowd-deflating moments you see a lot. But Tiger Stadium started chanting L ... S ... U! L ... S ... U! for five minutes all through the commercial break and it just got louder until LSU had the ball on offense again. It made a believer out of Nick and out of Richt, too. The Tigers were pumped and the stadium was rocking for the rest of the game, LSU scored a TD pass, and was on their way to a national championship. It's not just a loud stadium. It's a wild and crazy crowd.
i've been down during the national anthem during miles first year, the first home game against tennessee on that monday night, and it was deafening. I can't imagine actually being down there during the heat of a tight game.
here is a seismogram that a UF prof sent me. you can see peaks at various events of the game. i dont understand why the biggest peak is at the end of the first half. everyone going to take a piss?
I was not at that game, but Verne Lundquist and Co. made a big deal about that moment on the CBS telecast. IMO, that should be considered one of the great -- if not the great defining moment for TS. We may have come back and won the game anyway, but you can also argue that the crowd willed the team through what could have been a back-breaking momentum shift. How often do you see that, anywhere? And we definitely don't win the NC that year without that win.
I'll never forget that game or Skyler's catch for as long as I live. I was in the student section and he was close to us as possible when he caught it. I thought we were all gonna rush the field right then. I get amped up just thinking about it.
most of the activity is during half time. must have been an awesome performance by their band. next biggest spike is a 4th qtr TD that put them up 56-3? (guess gator fans thought the game was in doubt until that point) and most of the spikes don't even matchup with a score. either Florida fans cheer at all the wrong times in a game, or the two really don't match-up very well. also, out of curiosity, I went check out where their geology building is in comparison to their Stadium. UF's? 427 ft. (.08 miles) LSU's? 2271 ft. (0.43 miles)
