Brady Quinn backs up SEC vs. NFL stadium debate with awesome story

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has the most important game of his life upcoming on Sunday afternoon. He will lead his team into Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs for the AFC Championship.

However, most of the attention has been on comments Burrow made about NFL stadiums compared to SEC stadiums — not the actual game itself.

After a dominating Week 7 win over the Baltimore Ravens, Burrow commented on the crowd at M&T Bank Stadium. He said crowds during his time at LSU were louder than anything he’s experienced in the NFL.

“We knew that they were gonna be jacked up for us to come in, and expecting to beat our ass,” Burrow said. “But we were ready for it. Playing in the SEC definitely, definitely helped. Gets way louder in the SEC than in any of these NFL stadiums.”

While Burrow has received a lot of grief for those comments — especially with a fanbase prideful of their home atmosphere such as Kansas City up next — former NFL and Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn backed him up.

Quinn described the time his Fighting Irish faced Tennessee in the middle of his sophomore year. He described how loud Neyland Stadium got but sarcastically saying he would take legal action on the school later in life.

“We played in Knoxville, a late afternoon game my sophomore year,” Quinn said on his radio show, Two Pros and One Cup of Joe. “I swear to God the ball was moving on the field, it was so loud. It felt like I had speakers right behind my left and right ears blaring. If I go hard of hearing, I might be suing the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee fanbase from that game.”

Quinn struggled in the November matchup, completing just over 50% of his passes for 118 yards and one touchdown. Nonetheless, Notre Dame got the win on the road in a hostile SEC atmosphere.

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Chris Doering, a SiriusXM host who played at Florida from 1991-95, strongly stood by Burrow’s comments.

“He’s 100% accurate,” Doering said. “I mean, you look at the majority of the big-time stadiums in the SEC, they seat way more people than what NFL stadiums do and the majority of NFL stadiums are about entertainment. They have the music that they’re playing in the stadium. That’s different. In college, you’ve got 100,000 in the SEC, you’ve got the bands playing, you’ve got the cheerleaders leading things.