The air horn at Little Caesars Arena has been blaring for over 5 minutes as staff scramble to turn it off
You can tell the guy trying to fix it is stressed out of his mind lol
Imagine doing this under pressure, everyone watching, hearing getting damaged lol
And meanwhile a reporter on national TV is standing next to you talking about you trying to fix it lmao
That’s the funniest part of it all
Absolutely insane moment in this guy’s possibly mundane and routine I.T. life. Vietnam level PTSD
He will forever be stressed out by air horns
I hope he reads this thread. We support you dude. We know it wasn’t something you were trained on.
Did he try restarting it?
I look forward to the 30 For 30 on this day in his life.
Espn taking this insider stuff very seriously. Yall wanted access and we getting it
There should be a sub for performance under pressure
Literally looks like a Key and Peele sketch
No, funniest part was they kept playing music over it like that was going to make it better lmao
“YOU CAN SEE THE STRESSED OUT DUDE FRANTICALLY TRYING TO GET IT TO STOP AND HE CLEARLY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S DOING BUT IT’S ALL UP TO HIM RIGHT NOW”
camera zooms in
Sounds the like the making of a good I Think You Should Leave sketch.
“Could you please turn it off?!? It’s driving everyone crazy!”
“I TELL YOU I CAN’T. THERES TOO MUCH FUCKING SHIT ON HERE”
Not everyone knows how to do everything.
Like being on Survivor.
Literal nightmare scenario
Don’t worry he can’t hear him
It’s like that nightmare where I didn’t graduate high school and have to go back for an extra semester
The announcer should have asked for a real-time interview with the guy, that would have helped.
“Todd, you really got run over by the horn early… what do you hope to see from your equipment in the 2nd half?”
They keep trying to make me Nikola Telsa, Im not Nikola Tesla
Have the guy’s boss say what they’ll do in the 2nd half to fix the problem
Very ESPN type of thing to do, surprised they didn’t get next to him and shoved the mic in his face.
Happened in the Superbowl(?) “May have been the CFB national Championship game” the field had a pocket in the artificial turf or something. This one guy went out with a bucket of the tiny rubber stuff they use in the turf and just had to slowly stuff it back in and work it even. The entire time the camera was on him, I dont remember anyone showing up to help either.
B1G Championship Game at Lucas Oil; I remember because they made a big deal about him being a Purdue grad in turf science or something. But that’s exactly what I thought of too.
By everyone watching, that includes TV
Like diffusing a bomb but it already went off so everyone’s in pain but you still need to diffuse it
While your own hearing is getting damaged.
When I was in college at a big ten school, the shot clock malfunctioned. Watched a guy come in and splice a new wire in under 2 minutes. Pretty impressive actually.
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck!!”
Just unplug the whole fucking thing
And Plug it back in
“Have you tried restarting your router?”
This poor dude’s gonna need a GoFundMe lmao
i only give money to rich dead celebrities
I don’t understand this reference. Clue me in?
James van der beek is the one that made Reddit rounds a couple weeks ago. Mom wanted to keep their la home and gigantic Texas compound. I think there’s something like 8 kids too
James Vander Beeks family set up a go fund ne
When I saw him cover his ears to listen to his earpiece I originally thought he was cowering from how loud the horn was.
As a Soundguy, this is a flop sweat night terror situation
Why? There was definitely sound in spades.
as a technician, i feel his pain so much
I’m this guy at work. It’s stressful even when the situation isn’t affecting 10k people. I’m sure the guy was living every second like 4,000 years trying to fix it lol.
Imagine trying to fix a worst case scenario at your job and there’s a literal commentator feet away describing you as frantic to a live audience
I’m currently sitting in front of a lighting console 45 mins from curtain. As a professional tech I can say with certainty. This man is living through our nightmares live on ESPN. What did this man do to deserve this wrath from the theatre gods.
I work in IT for a college. I’ll go into a room to work on a podium with 100 college students and shit is stressful.
That guy is gonna go sit in the car and just stare for an hour after this.
I can’t even imagine how much pressure he’s under
“How did work go tonight sweetie?”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
He’s having the worst day of his entire career easily.
Been there, years ago we had a live presentation by the execs at my job to everyone in our company but the broadcast company we were using was not working at the time for some unknown reason. So there I was trying to fix it to get everything started on time and nothing worked. At one point I got the broadcast going 10 mins after it was supposed to start before it crashed again and someone messaged me. “We saw you briefly, and you looked so stressed out and sad.”
So I feel for this dude. Bad enough ESPN was like “Look at this guy!”
Troubleshooting in those situations is the worst. Every second feels like minutes when everyone has their eyes on you and you have no clue what the issue is yet.
Everyone who has done similar work recognized that head hanging look down at 20 seconds into the video, waiting for something to reset/restart/load lmao
And there’s a guy next to him commentating.
Gosh imagine you’re in a bomb disposal unit and some guy with a mic next to you “is he going for the blue wire? That red one sure looks tempting though. Am I gonna die with him? Only time will tell”.
What sucked even more was the problem wasn’t even the console he was working on but it was the actual horn itself and they almost had to bring the whole scoreboard down from the rafters to fix it until somehow they got it cut off
Let’s get this man to do an AMA
Find the circuit breaker my god
They found it. Crowd went wild. Lmao
They turned off the scoreboard it’s barely a solution 😭
They using a manual horn for the rest of the game. I cant. Lol
My god, if I could see Scott foster T someone up and then blow an air horn in their face I’d die happy.
Bro imagine Joey Crawford doing it after that blocking call lmao
Hip thrust travel call into a timeout with the manual horn
That’s like when a Little League game continues after sunset and they have to have the parents light the field with their car headlights.
They just used it for the first time and good Lord this is gonna be a watch of all-time
Its loud as fuck. Im dying over here. Lmaooo
The manual horn.
Good thing they have a manual one or somebody would have to go out there and yell HOOOORRRRNNNN
Anyone know what Keith Van Horn is up to these days, we got a job for him!
Raw dogging basketball
This is DETROIT basketball
They turned everything off instead of finding the circuit (which will take way longer)
Yeah I would imagine the wiring situation in an arena is pretty complicated.
I don’t think you can hear this horn often outside of the NBA so whoever installs or wires the scoreboard should know where to cut it.
Unless they are on PTO.
I have worked in a lot of arenas and I can tell you for a fact that the person that installed the scoreboard is not there on game nights.
It’s actually a real problem in arenas all over. They used to have permanent house electricians and staff who knew these things. They’ve all been let go over the last decade or so to save money. Then when something like this happens, no one knows what to do.
Some would say that the crowd went crazy, just like Little Caesar’s Crazy Bread. Priced at only $3.99 for an order, it’s a can’t miss addition to tonight’s dinner. Try it with their classic garlic dipping sauce, or some of their famous spicy marinara sauce.
lol in my head I’m like “there’s definitely a physical solution to this.”
“WHAT?? I gotta update the app?? I don’t have time for that!”
They literally discussed lowering the entire scoreboard and just physically breaking the horn itself.
Professional Reddit commentators at it again. These real life engineers and technicians simply have no idea what they’re doing
Well they ended up doing what I said lol
Right? Peak reddit
I assume it’s an air actuated horn, so kill the compressors and bleed the lines. Now saying that there are safety standards you have to follow as well as what sort of accessibility to the air system there is, so it isn’t necessary as easy as shutting off a switch.
If I had to guess I’d say it was a valve that failed in the open position so shutting down its compressor would do the trick as the lines would bleed off by itself. Also depends if it has a dedicated compressor or if it is fed off an arena wide system and where isolation valves are located.
Or I’m totally off base and it’s an electrically powered horn at which case, depending on the control scheme and voltage, would be as easy as shutting off a switch 😂
It’s 100% digital and the Tissot clocks and control systems are major POS and only used for the NBA. Worked games where the league was literally sending software updates minutes before tipoff because they had issues at another arena. Best he could have done was unplug it but then you have no clock or score or stats for the entire game. They should have had a backup ready to go though but those are expensive as hell and for all we know he could have already been on the backup.
Why my dude isn’t completely unplugging the console to start is what shocks me.
Like if it’s being loud you skip troubleshooting and go straight to “the hard restart”
I love all these armchair people who just think for some reason the av people don’t already know how stuff works.
There’s probably a crazy long cycling time
Because you lose all clock, score etc everywhere. Truck, in arena, your mobile app etc. that damn thing controls everything. I also bet he already rebooted it.
“they got their best guy on it, and he’s not very good” -cavs announcers
Damn that roast was deep from the Q
THROWS the hammer down
Cold blooded
real quote? hilarious
Big talk coming from the land of the court with a dropoff ledge
this is a fair criticism lol
No way. LOL
Send da video
Lmao. I have seen power outages, broken rims, slick floors from ice, but never a horn stuck on. This is amazing.
Way back when the Spurs still played in the Alamodome, they had these huge water cannons for fire suppression, and one time they were accidentally activated. That was fun.
Don’t forget the bats.
Or when the AC broke in the middle of the finals.
LeCramp
Ginobili obliterated that bat lmao
e: sauce
And the snake in the locker room.
The nets arena shines spotlights in your eyes.
They showed it’s at 95 decibels. 85 sustained gives hearing damage. Feel for the ppl in arena
Fuuuuck that
WHAT?!
’S UP DAWG??
lol at any given time a full basketball arena is 85db.
95db is twice as loud as 85db
This guy decibels.
Feels like an OSRS stat
I see the Department of Scales has been doing its thing again
Jesus I didn’t know how that worked. That 142db at Arrowhead must have been mental then.
Logarithms gonna logarithm.
They need to unplug that shit
it’s actually the death star and the siren is fundamental to the building’s structural integrity.
I don’t need any validation about wearing earplugs to NBA games, but this would add to the list.
Earplugs are a must at most events at this point, everything is like 95 db+ which is not good for your hearing. Not enough people give a fuck about hearing until they lose it
People lose sight of the fact that modern event/concert amplification capable of outputting damaging levels only really kicked off in like the mid-late 1960s, and truly got going mid-70s. That means much of the guinea pigs of this stuff are still middle age/just reaching elderly ages today, and the results of the experiment are not coming back great.
Earplugs aren’t just a “good if you have them”, they are the plain and simple correct choice. Humans were not built to be exposed to sound like this, flat out.
For those who don’t know, a decent pair of earplugs don’t “muffle” or diminish the sound at a concert, they just tone down the harsh edge, often you’ll actually hear with more clarity (the sound guys mix the live sound with earplugs in). It’s like a $30 one time investment to save yourself so much trouble in the future. Seriously go order some online rn, there is no cure for hearing loss or tinnitus.
Tinnitus is the gift that keeps on giving….
Dude it is SO LOUD at Pepsi Center it’s unreal. Haven’t been in the Rose Garden for like four years, but it was always far more tastefully done than here in Denver.
I’m an audiologist, and this sure feels a nightmare for my profession lol. This is just a random occurrence, but wearing custom ear plugs at loud events even if it doesn’t look appealing can help stop irreversible damage occurring to your hearing. Remember, there is no cure for hearing loss, or tinnitus, and I’ve seen people of all ages have rough psychological effects from not being able to communicate because of them.
I’m an audiologist
Yea man I prefer vinyl, too /s
I don’t go to nearly as many shows as I used to but I have a favorite pair of earplugs that I try to never go to a show without. Depending on the band, forgetting them could ruin my whole night.
Could be worse. They don’t have to listen to Ruocco inside the arena.
Get up and get a snack my god how are you sittin through that
Make that 10 mins. Wtf is going on.
12 and a half before they turned the scoreboard off
I’d have cut the damn wire 2 minutes in fuck that.
the wire
I don’t think it’s that simple with sound systems this complex lol. Cutting any wires would probably extend this even longer.
Cuts wire
Shot clock buzzer starts going off
They needed MacGruber
Cut the black wi–****BOOOOOMMM**** MCGRUBER!
Do you want conspiracy theories?
Was there a way to bet on this on Kalshi?
I thought that’s what the internet was for man
The fact that this guy is frantically trying to shut it off while the commentator basically goes “this guy is frantically trying to shut it off” while they point a camera in his face is comedic
Tailor-made SNL sketch
Everything’s computer
Underrated comment.
Tesler.
Oh my God that feels like a lifetime ago. A simpler time
I love Tesler
It would be so funny and lame if the game ended this way, wonder if that’s ever happened before
The last time a game was cut short in Detroit was way worse.
Why what happened?
Decapitated. Whole big thing. There was a funeral for a bird.
Pretty sure none of that’s real
You’re not real!
Just some fun interactions between the players and the crowd. Community outreach, if you will.
Something… malicious…
I feel so old reading a comment from someone who doesn’t know about the Malice in the Palace 😭
And he’s a Pacers fan!
did you consider the possibility that it might maybe concievably hypothetically be a joke
“STOP THE COUNT” - Detroit, probably
has never happened before
I would be so mad lol
im sorry if im at the game im fucking crying laughing, this type of shit is hilarious to me
I would be annoyed. But not mad. It’s sucks. Things happen, and I can leave if I want to.
Look at mr unbothered by situations he’s not experiencing over here
Do you know how expensive tickets are nowadays? You’re just gonna leave bc of their own fuck up?
How is it this hard to shut it off lmao
everything is computerized…..its much harder if the control screen not working
Probably someone didn’t want to turn it off. And the guy in the ground is waiting for the approval.
Commentator just said “Detroit have been on a tear, 13-6 run pre-horn”
back in the pre-horn era
Christ almighty, this is just insufferable watching on tv when I can turn it down.
I was just about to say this, like it’s already irritating enough I’d be leaving the arena by now, shit is ear damage level bad
the fact they were interviewing Donovan Mitchell almost the entire time, which meant you had no choice to turn the volume down if you didn’t want to miss Mitchell’s insights on the team….also bro had some pretty funny comments about the horn situation lol
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
That’s funny as that’s what they did to finally shut it up
I was screaming for the dude to unplug the damn thing.
LMAO
I like this as Detroit’s psychological warfare aspect of the game - we get a raised court they get constant air horn
Milwaukee will have Culvers Free Samples placed courtside to distract
this has been going on for more than 10 minutes. this is insane. its comical at this point
I love the guy stimming while still plugging his ears
Every time they came back from commercial and the horn was still blaring, it made me laugh out loud. Utterly ridiculous.
Pistons horn 6th man of the year
This league.
This is so Detroit
Poor guy I can just feel the stress lol
I feel like I’m staring right at the power cord
How is glasses not crashing out?
He very clearly is crashing out lol
Yeah he clearly yelled ‘FUCK’ at the end of the clip
Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time and watch a basketball game without the blaring music and hype man. It’s so exhausting to watch a game for 2+ hours and just be bombarded every single second with noise and stimulation.
The Pistons are always at the scene of the crime this season (how many scuffles have they been involved in on the court? Haha). I think the arena wants everyone to know it’s happy to be a part of the chaos.
It’s not Jackie Chan!
this is the first thing I thought of lmao
Espn special insider show and this happens 😃
When the guy put on his glasses, pulled out his phone and clearly searched “how to fix the scoreboard at the Little Caesars Arena” on live television, I knew we were in I chartered territory.
This would never happen at Pizza Hut arena.
Big Trouble in Little Caesars
The Eardrum Squeezer at Little Caesars
Some french house DJ is gunna sample this and make a banger that will get my aux rights taken away
watch the literal last second of the clip lol, that’s a f bomb.
Craziest part of this video, to me, is that they didn’t turn off the arena music. Just pile on the noise pollution and hearing damage