Who ever heard of a football stadium where the audience isn't allowed to jump?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Just about every college football stadium has a section (usually the endzone) where students gather and stand shoulder to shoulder throughout the game -- and they jump. Just leave it to Central Florida to hand the contract to someone who apparently didn't take this into account. The only thing the article left out was who build the stadium, and which school attorney recommended him.

UCF continues to study why its football stadium bounces
Report into structure's swaying anomaly won't be finished for several months

March 8, 2008

University of Central Florida fans will have to wait at least another few months to learn whether their football stadium can keep its nickname "The Trampoline."School officials say it will take that long to complete a special engineering study they requested amid concerns that synchronized bouncing by fans could shorten the estimated 50-year life span of Bright House Networks Stadium.

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"This is not a safety issue," said Grant Heston, a UCF spokesman. "It's a maintenance issue."

Fans discovered during the inaugural game last fall that they could make the upper stands bounce by jumping up and down in unison. Their cue to start jumping was "Kernkraft 400," a techno-pop tune by Zombie Nation.

Students immediately began calling the stadium "The Trampoline" and "Bounce House."

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Even though the school determined the deck was safe, officials talked about banning the song to discourage the motion. Eventually, to appease fans who disliked the motion, the school spent $300,000 to brace the deck.



http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/college/knights/orl-stadium0808mar08,0,3928991.story

[shenmue]

1. Me. Too many fights, too much drunken, stupid bullshit, too much garbage...

going on at college football games. It is their stadium, they have the right to say what goes on there.

I've been to many of these things and it's about time somebody tried to curb these stupid assholes. Kids don't care about the game. They care about being drunken assholes. Not everybody thinks of this shit as fun.