I wasn't at the game last night so maybe the in person atmosphere was fine and I'm just complaining for no reason. But I can't help but notice when the camera pans and the entire lower bowl is sitting there dead silent during a 2 point lead with under 4 minutes to play in a redemption game. This feels like the time in the game to me where a loud rowdy crowd could really help to sway the game, but instead it seems like everyone in the camera shot just apathetically watched the team coast to another loss.
I get not standing and cheering the entire game, especially when games are lasting over 2.5 hours, but those last crucial minutes with a close lead don't make sense to me. We pride ourselves on the great gameday atmospheres we create but it seems that atmosphere only comes in spurts, and dies the second something goes wrong. I don't quite get why it is. Maybe it just takes so long to get the priority points to get those lower bowl seats that by the time you get there you're too old to want to stand and cheer, maybe the flow of events in the stadium (timeouts, fouls, timing/song selection of the band and speakers) brings down the energy, or maybe everyone's is just tired at the end of a long season. Whatever the reason is, it's disappointing to see on TV when other fanbases would be seen going rabid in that same scenario.
