re: Tiger Stadium Almost Complete

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What supposedly sets Tiger stadium apart from other SEC stadiums on Saturdays?

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“It was electric. When Death Valley is rocking, it seems as if it might actually take flight. On Saturday, I went back to Baton Rouge to see Alabama barely beat LSU, and was, once again, reminded that Tiger Stadium is the best place in the world to watch a sporting event. … I’m not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this.”
-- Wright Thompson, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com (Nov. 10, 2008)

Best stadium – Tiger Stadium, LSU. The pregame festivities. The deafening noise – there’s no other place like it. … it’s in the freakiest, funkiest, most frenetic place in all of college football.”
-- Matt Hayes, The Sporting News Today (July 8, 2009)

“My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.”
-- Pat Forde, Yahoo Sports

“Three SEC coaches I spoke with who have worked in other leagues say that Tiger Stadium is, by far, the loudest stadium in the country.”
-- Bruce Feldman, CBSSports.com (Oct. 1, 2007)

“Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It’s like being inside a drum.”
-- Paul “Bear” Bryant, Former Alabama Coach

“It has turned the knees of All-Americans to goo. It has caused coaches to lose their coaching minds. Dark. That combined with Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night is something loud, strange and holy. There is noise in stadiums everywhere from Eugene to Tuscaloosa. Only in Baton Rouge is there a living, breathing being lurking in its grand, old stadium.”
-- Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com, Oct. 8, 2009

“But for gameday atmosphere, there is nothing quite like Death Valley at night in the SEC. The food, culture, fans, smells and Richter Scale inducing noise echoing from LSU’s Tigers Stadium is second to none. Among the nation’s best college football venue’s, this one might be the best. ”
-- Athlon Sports (June 2013)

“I love LSU just a little bit more than the others … The heat, the humidity, Mike the Tiger and a stadium so loud you can feel it in your chest cavity.”
-- Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com No. 1 on his Top 25 stadiums (July 27, 2011)

“I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you’re standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.”
-- Wright Thompson, ESPN.com (Nov. 10, 2008)

“FACT: LSU’s Tiger Stadium at night is the toughest place on the planet to play. You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. The person in the cubicle next to you has heard it. It’s pointless to argue against it: Give 92,000-plus fans in Baton Rouge a full day to prepare, and they’ll bring in the noise and the funk. LSU players and coaches will attest to it. So will opponents. Shoot, even the seismograph in the university’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex proves it. No other stadium, no other crowd can put that on a resume.”
-- Ken Bradley, The Sporting News (Nov. 1, 2012)

“Once you can’t hear, it really doesn’t matter how much louder one place is than the other Death Valley, when it gets rocking at night, it’s a different animal. I’ve played there in the daytime as well and it’s just a different animal at nighttime.”
-- 1997 Florida quarterback Doug Johnson

“Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the loudest stadium I’ve ever been in. There are very few stadiums in America worth a touchdown, but the Bayou Bengals certainly have that advantage in Tiger Stadium.”
-- Former ESPN sideline reporter Adrian Karsten

“The Scariest Place to Play in America.”
-- ESPN.com (2007)

“Louisiana State University has one of the most beautiful campuses we've ever seen, seemingly built in between beautiful old oaks. As the hours roll by, the noise of LSU tailgating builds. I walk around a bunch of tailgates being introduced to all. I'm offered everything from bourbon (I decline) to beer (I decline) to food (I accept). In minutes I'm eating fried oysters, shrimp, alligator and crawfish. All of them are delectable. We stumble on a tailgate in which the scene is really like Alice in football land. … This has been one of the greatest experiences of my life, and any self-respecting sports fan HAS to go to a game in Tiger Stadium.”
-- Alex Ferguson, Sky Sports UK (Nov. 9, 2012)

“Unless your with the opposing team, Tiger Stadium at night is football nirvana.”
-- Chris Low, ESPN.com

“For three hours on Saturday Night, I don’t know that there has ever been an atmosphere in sports that I’ve been a part of that was as memorable to me. I have no dog in this fight. I mean look, I’ve been to games where I’ve watched Maryland win a national championship, that was very personal to me. Makes me think of my dad who left us too soon. I have nothing but being a sports fan on the line on Saturday night. And I’ve never seen something that felt like that. Or heard anything that was as sustained as that. … Everything that was part of the experience, I was told it was going to be awesome. It was better than I was told it was. … There is nothing I would put ahead of that that I’ve EVER seen in any sport. When you’re there, you don’t want to miss anything.”
-- Scott Van Pelt, ESPN Radio on the 2012 LSU-Alabama game

"I think atmosphere-wise, LSU was the best atmosphere that we played in [2012]. I loved playing in that game. It was probably the most fun that I've had playing even though we lost, just because of that atmosphere. It wasn't as loud during the day, but as soon as night struck, it was crazy."
-- Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace at 2012 SEC Media Days

“It was so loud I could barely read the signals. My eyes were vibrating.”
-- South Carolina’s Bruce Ellington at 2013 SEC Media Days

“The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don’t stop at all. They keep going.”
-- Former Arkansas All-American RB Darren McFadden

“Greatest sporting event I have ever been to....It was a wall of sound beginning at 4:30 in the afternoon. It was a transformative experience. There have been a lot of great events, but I have never seen anything like it. It was an experience I can’t stop thinking about.”
-- Chad Millman, ESPN The Magazine Editor in Chief

Ain't nobody reading all that.

Yeah. Don't let facts get in the way of your rationale

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You really shouldn't bother

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well fortunately those quotes are readily available at a single source for an easy copy/paste job

I am definitely an LSU homer so am very biased about Tiger Stadium. So a serious question, are there other venues that get as much impartial reviews? No flame, just curious.

Yes.

Their is a reason LSU's fans over rate Tiger stadium so grossly.

Ours looks better.

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I am definitely an LSU homer so am very biased about Tiger Stadium. So a serious question, are there other venues that get as much impartial reviews? No flame, just curious.

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The Swamp gets a lot too, here are some of the quick ones I found.

"There is no better place than 'The Swamp.' That opening on the big screen with the alligators, it's the best ever. When the Gators run out of the tunnel, it is absolutely the moment of moments in college football." — Lee Corso, ESPN College Football Analyst

I rank Ben Hill Griffin at Florida Field as the nation's toughest stadium. The Swamp is deafening. - Bob Griese


“The loudest, most obnoxious and notorious piece of real estate in all of college football.”
– The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on The Swamp

“Florida Field is the nation’s loudest stadium. Take any heavy metal album, crank it, then place your speakers in a tin basement. That sounds like a library compared to ‘The Swamp’.”
– The Sporting News

“BEN . . . HILL . . . GRIFFIN Stadium . . . at Florida Field, has the longest name in college football . . . and it has the loudest fans! Trust us!”
– Chris Fowler, ESPN College Gameday Host on The Swamp

1. Tiger Stadium
2. Ben Hill Griffin