I have to laugh. Back in the day I did high school play by play and ya it got loud but you can imagine my surprise when I first attended a Cavs game at the old Colosseum and between scoring the crowd noise would drop to almost a whisper! Since I had heard the crowd behind Joe's play by play I listened abit closer and it sounded like a crowd noise tape running in the background. From what is posted here it sounds like the crowd has perked up since then .