This **** has really been ****ing me off, but then I snap back and realize that, for the most part, our crowds do suck. Maybe that'll **** people off, but it's true. But what the national guys don't understand is for games like this, it really is an elite atmosphere. It truly is. There isn't much, if anything, better in the entire sport. The problem is, it happens once every 5 years, so everyone develops amnesia.
I was listening to a podcast I think it was the Ari and Staples one and one of them (I can't tell who's who most of the time on that show) said something to the effect of the crowd isn't a big factor and the other one said "Wait a second" and explained how, for games like this, we do have a homefield advantage.
So I just let the **** slide off my back, the only way to change the narrative is to stuff it down people's throats. Make the place an asylum stuffed inside a zoo stacked on top of a prison on Sunday night, and maybe people will realize that when we're good (or early in the year when we're supposed to be good), and we get a marquee opponent, at night, that place does come alive.
I wish it did 6+ times a year, but that's just not reality.
