September 29, 2014: The Kansas City Chiefs clobber the New England Patriots, 41-14 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast registered the crowd noise at 142.2 decibels, the loudest in NFL history -- without the benefit of a dome to hold in the noise.
To put that in perspective: The "threshold of pain" is usually considered to be 120 decibels.
Usually, the loudest stadiums in the NFL have been the first wave of domes: Houston's Astrodome, Seattle's Kingdome and Minneapolis' Metrodome in particular. Defying this were Arrowhead and Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington.
The newer domes tend not to hold sound in so well. Hence, Houston's NRG Stadium and Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium are not as loud as their predecessors.
Seattle's new Lumen Field, with a roof over the stands but not over the field, tends to hold sound in well, and it challenges Arrowhead as the loudest in the NFL.
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September 29, 2014 was, as said, a Monday. That was the only score on this day. Baseball's regular season had ended the day before, and its Playoffs began the next day; while the NBA and NHL regular seasons were yet to come.
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