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Home Field Advantage with Kevin Stefanski - Building Brownstown

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Building Brownstown, two-time NFL Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski discusses the advantages of the enclosed Huntington Bank Stadium. He believes the new stadium will create a home-field advantage by amplifying the noise from the crowd, making it difficult for opposing teams to communicate and operate on the field. Stefanski states that the enclosed stadium will be a "first-class facility" that will amplify the "rabid" energy of the Dawg Pound, making it an unbelievable environment.

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0:00.0

Welcome into another edition of Building Browns Sound, and today I am joined by the two-time NFL coach of the head coach of your Cleveland Browns. Kevin's DeFancy. Coach, good to be with you.

0:08.7

Yeah, great to be with you, Nathan. All right. You always talk about the fans, taking care of the fans, having that home field advantage. When you think about being able to put the best fans in the NFL into a world-class facility, the enclosed Huntington Bank

0:21.4

Stadium. What does that mean to you? Yeah, I mean, I just can imagine, you know, I think about

0:26.4

obviously the visuals of it, and I've seen the renderings of how close our fans are to the field,

0:31.7

which is an amazing thing both for our fans and for our football team to get them closer to

0:36.7

our opponents.

0:37.7

But my mind goes right to the decibel level of what that creates.

0:41.6

And I was blessed to be around when they built a beautiful stadium in Minnesota,

0:47.1

U.S. Bank Stadium.

0:48.8

It is really loud.

0:50.7

And I can tell you, I can remember being a young coach in the Metrodome, which was loud.

0:55.7

And they built this beautiful world-class, first-class facility. And I always, I was thinking

1:00.6

myself, is this going to be as loud as the Metrodome? And I think the first game of the season

1:05.5

that year was versus the Packers. Maybe Sunday Night Football. I'm not positive about that.

1:08.6

But I remember the first third down of that game.

1:11.8

And the level went to a decibel level I'd never heard.

1:15.8

I mean, honestly, I'd never heard in playing football,

1:18.4

whether it was at or coaching football at Seattle, in New Orleans.

1:22.1

It was ridiculous.

1:23.8

And talk about an advantage for the home team when it's really hard for the other team to operate

1:28.7

and get in and out of the huddle

1:30.8

and do checks at the line of scrimmage on third down,

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