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Arrowhead Stadium holds the loudest crowd roar

Fans in Kansas City reached 142.2 decibels in September 2014 The record was measured during a game against the New England Patriots on 29 September 2014, with a calibrated sound level meter positioned in the stands. Decibels are a logarithmic scale, so every increase of 10 decibels represents roughly twice the perceived loudness. The reading stands above the level of a jet engine at close range and is the highest recorded at an outdoor stadium. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Fans in Kansas City reached 142.2 decibels in September 2014. The figure is taken from Kansas City Chiefs, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.