I remember seeing a game way back when (early Eighties maybe) and the crowd in RFK was bouncing the section of the stadium and and down in unison!
I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.
I went to a pro hockey game at the old Boston Garden after that collapse occurred, and people were doing the same thing, jumping up and down, and you could feel the structure moving, and in that pandemonium some shrill voice shrieked out “STOP!” and in unison, everyone ceased at the same time. I think everyone immediately realized why someone would say that.
I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.
Mechanical Resonance? Where if the people are bouncing at just the right frequency it amplifies the vibrations.
I think they stopped doing that after there was a tragedy at some structural collapse where a lot of people were killed.
Oh yeah, I remember fans doing that and also trying to make the stadium sway. Crazy days.
I went to FedEx Field once - my sister & brother in law got us four tickets in the Club Level for a Houston Texans vs the Redskins in 2002 game when I was up visiting for Christmas. My dad came too and I was the only Texans fan there. (The fans were nice - we were brand new.)
What a dull, cookie-cutter stadium FedEx Field was. It was no match for the lively and colorful RFK Stadium.
I was at a Chicago/Beach Boys concert in 1975 at Anaheim Stadium.
During one of the beach boy songs the second and third level started bouncing all at the same time and it was still daytime and you could see it moving up and down.
It was scary and they did tell them to stop.
Those seats were movable. In the stadium's baseball configuration, those were the left field stands.
One night in the first year of the Nationals, Jose Guillen was playing right field and could see the fans in the left field seats bouncing. He was caught tapping his foot in time to the bouncing seats.
They stopped it after the Nationals moved over to Nationals Park and the seats were locked in place.