Bills fans try to set new crowd noise record, and fail.

[Strongside]

Bills fans fail to set Guinness World Record for crowd noise against Patriots

The Bills didn't just get their you-know-whats handed to them in a 40-32 loss to the New England Patriots that was worse than the final score indicated, but Buffalo was handed another defeat on Sunday.

In their attempt to break a Guinness World Record for crowd noise, Buffalo fans fell well short of their goal despite the Bills taking a 7-0 lead early against their AFC East rivals at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

Chad Walber, a research and development engineer with New York-based PCB Piezotronics, was on hand for the 1 p.m. kickoff to measure the decibels of crowd noise along with a Guinness World Record representative, and he chronicled the sound level at the stadium on Twitter throughout the afternoon.

Needing to break the Guinness World Record of 142.2 — set by Kansas City Chiefs fans against the Patriots at Arrowhead Stadium last season — Buffalo's decibel level reached a high of 124.8 following the Bills' second score of the game, which cut New England's lead to 21-13 five minutes before halftime.



As the Patriots built a lead as large as 37-13, some Bills fans exited the stadium, according to Syracuse.com, but a silenced crowd awoke when New England's decision to pass on almost every down — rather than run down the clock — helped Buffalo collect three straight fourth-quarter touchdowns that slashed the lead to 37-32 with just over four minutes remaining. The decibel level climbed back to 122.9 on the Bills' fifth and final TD, but it sounds like they could've used the help of their departed fans.

The Patriots responded with a three-minute drive that ended in a field goal, leaving the Bills with 1:15 on the clock and no timeouts to stop it. Buffalo quarterback Tyrod Taylor threw an interception on the first play of the final drive, and the game was over. New England QB Tom Brady finished with 466 yards — the most ever recorded against the Bills — to go along with three TDs and no picks, despite the noise.

Everyone from Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, who said, "Don't nobody like the Patriots," to Buffalo's team store employees, who put inflating pumps out front in a deflate-gate dig, spent the week leading up to Sunday's game ribbing New England. Afterwards, Bills coach Rex Ryan took the blame.

"Yeah, I got an issue we never won," he told reporters after the loss. "I mean that's it. You can blame it any way you want, I don't care. It's my fault we talk too much. That's why we lost."

Grippy J. Gibson, a self-proclaimed of the "Bills Mafia" whose gofundme campaign raised $9,280 to bring the Guinness World Record representative to Buffalo, chronicled the afternoon on Twitter as well.

There is no known record of the decibel level for the collective sigh of disappointment heard in Buffalo.

[Discuss Thrower]

Dumb.

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Dumb.

Yes. Yes it is.

But at least it's proof that Guiness doesn't just award these things because you've paid them.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Yes. Yes it is.

But at least it's proof that Guiness doesn't just award these things because you've paid them.

It's aggravating to me that people just aren't realizing that the noise of Arrowhead wasn't effective in the Marty years wasn't because it was incredibly loud in a burst, it was minutes straight of sustained ****ing ear-shattering din.

[Rain Man]

124.8? I've eaten potato chips louder than 124.8.

[Hydrae]

[notorious]

142.2
124.8

17.4 db quieter

Every 3 db gain in doubling the intensity and loudness.

In the world of SPL, that isn't even close.

[Bugeater]

This needs to stop being a thing

[Chromatic]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

This needs to stop being a thing

It won't. It's one of the few ways Guinness can keep its name in the press these days and NFL teams are all too accommodating when it comes to building shallow fan support/pride. Win/win for both parties.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by notorious

142.2
124.8

17.4 db quieter

Every 3 db gain in doubling the intensity and loudness.

In the world of SPL, that isn't even close.

And it takes 10x the power to go up each 3 db....

But I live in the SQ world, no the SPL

[alpha_omega]

Agreed, this is dumb...that being said...they weren't even close.

[Rain Man]

They need to start recording variant records, like the loudest yelling of the word "ostrich" or the loudest collective belch.

[salame]

Loudest shaved head and goatee.....

[ReynardMuldrake]

Originally Posted by notorious

142.2
124.8

17.4 db quieter

Every 3 db gain in doubling the intensity and loudness.

In the world of SPL, that isn't even close.

It's a logarithmic scale, so 142.2 would be 100x louder than 122.2. 125.2 would be roughly 1/50th as loud as 142.2, so they are slightly under 1/50th as loud measured in decibels.

[displacedinMN]

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