# What's the largest event you ever attended? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209 "2001-01-03T06:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/41 "2001-01-04T07:27:23Z")
The biggest events I ever attended were both at Foxboro Stadium: The Who’s reunion concert in 1989 and 5 matches of the World Cup in 1994. Since the stadium’s capacity is somewhere around 50-60,000, I’m apparently quite a loner compared to some of the other posters here. As for that income tax thing, I went once, wasn’t too impressed. Now I just give it a miss. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Adolph\_Peewee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Adolph\_Peewee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adolph_Peewee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/42 "2001-01-04T13:10:08Z")
I worked at an outback ball last year. There was about 4,500 people there. it sounds meagre I know, but considering that this was about 200km from anywhere, with no power and in the middle of the desert…nearly…it was pretty amazing! I think there was more alcohol in the place than water! Says something about the aussies doesn’t it!? 😃 mmm…reading back on this…I think I need to get out a bit more! ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/43 "2001-01-04T13:19:55Z")
Super Bowl XX in New Orleans Superdome - Whatever the football capacity there is. ---
**Author:** ![choosybeggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/44 "2001-01-04T14:44:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StephenG \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \* > > \*\*Paul Simon, Central Park, 1992(1?) > > > > Crowd estimate:6.48 X 10[sup]12[/sup] \*\* > > Well, unless I’ve seriously messed up my math (which is quite possible, but I have checked it) > > 6.48 X 10[sup]12[/sup]=6,480,000,000,000 > > That’s 6.48 _trillion_. That’s about 1,000 times the world’s population. > > \*\* Yeah, but my number’s biggest! Isn’t it OK to dream big?🙂 Thanks for noticing! ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/45 "2001-01-04T14:58:03Z")
84,000 Slane, 1995 to see REM. Big crowd. I was near the front. Coldy, yes, you are old. Just remember, that also, in 1992, “Under the Bridge” was first released. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/46 "2001-01-04T15:20:14Z")
Ohio State Football games (at the Shoe) draw a pretty big crowd. I think the stadium holds around 95k. I usually attend 3-4 games a year. Also, in Columbus, we have a fireworks display on July 3rd called Red, White and Boom. IIRC, it gets crowds around 300-400k. I used to go, but now avoid it like the plague. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/47 "2001-01-04T15:27:06Z")
last year, for New Year’s Eve, i was in Times Square for the big brouhaha. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/48 "2001-01-04T15:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \* > \*\*Paul Simon, Central Park, 1992(1?) > > Crowd estimate:6.48 X 10[sup]12[/sup] \*\* 6,480,000,000,000 people? Now that’s a big crowd! That’s like, more people than have ever lived on earth. 🙂 For myself: Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, many times. Crowd estimate runs somewhere between 4 and 5 million. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/49 "2001-01-04T15:37:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by StephenG \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \* > > > \*\*Paul Simon, Central Park, 1992(1?) > > > > > > Crowd estimate:6.48 X 10[sup]12[/sup] \*\* > > > > Well, unless I’ve seriously messed up my math (which is quite possible, but I have checked it) > > > > 6.48 X 10[sup]12[/sup]=6,480,000,000,000 > > > > That’s 6.48 _trillion_. That’s about 1,000 times the world’s population. > > > > \*\* > > Yeah, but my number’s biggest! Isn’t it OK to dream big?🙂 > > Thanks for noticing! \*\* Note to self: read the **whole** thread before posting a smart-ass comment. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/50 "2001-01-04T15:44:06Z")
I go to the Daytona 500 every year. I think it draws about a quarter million people. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/51 "2001-01-04T18:27:53Z")
Not the largest number here, but I was crowds of ~95,000-100,000 fairly regularly in college. Gotta love the Ohio State Buckeyes! Never anything but a capacity crowd in the Horseshoe. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/52 "2001-01-05T00:07:46Z")
NYE 12/31/1999-Billy Joel Millenium Show Forget the date-Giants Stadium- Net Aid ---
**Author:** ![WickedAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@WickedAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WickedAngel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/53 "2001-01-05T00:14:48Z")
NYE '00 ~\> Vegas ~\> approx 1.5 mill \>all on the strip as far as i could tell, had to battle through crowds just to move 4 feet\< before that was an all-night-dance-event labor day’00 ~\> Indio, Ca ~\> 35,000+ ---
**Author:** ![bladeohlsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bladeohlsson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bladeohlsson)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/54 "2001-01-05T00:44:38Z")
Just living in Tokyo from 1994-1998. Everyday was like an event with 26 million. It was pretty crazy going through Shinjuku station. It is amazing everyone does not kill each other there. (or at least more often than the death cult does) blade ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/55 "2001-01-05T00:59:28Z")
On Monday I went to the Rose Parade, estimated crowd 1 million. I think a bigger thing is the energy. I have been to sold out baseball games which didn’t feel crowded, yet when I went to a playoff game it felt like a huge crowd due to the energy. ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/56 "2001-01-05T05:04:56Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by choosybeggar \* > Thanks for noticing! \*\* Anytime. That’s what we’re here for. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > Note to self: read the **whole** thread before posting a smart-ass comment. 🙂 \*\* That’s okay, **Ogre** , GMTA\*. I’ll agree with **deb** , the energy is the most important thing. There was definitely a lot of energy for that “little old polish guy” (thanks, **yojimbo** ), and I can easily see some sports games getting that kind of energy. \*Great Minds Think Alike. I haven’t seen this particular acronymn on the board yet, but y’all abbrevaite everthing else… ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/57 "2001-01-05T05:17:36Z")
GMTA! What about FSD? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/58 "2001-01-05T11:58:24Z")
Sun Day, Washington DC. May 5, 1979(?). 600,000. Second Woodstock. 'Bout the same. I’m now past 40, and don’t dig crowds as much as i used to. ---
**Author:** ![right\_said\_fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@right\_said\_fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/right_said_fred)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/59 "2001-01-05T20:27:45Z")
I couldn’t even begin to guess how many people were there, but the largest event for fred was the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, 1986. I heard there were eight million visitors to lower Manhattan that weekend, but a supposed equal amount of residents were said to have escaped the throngs. I think all Manhattan streets south of twentieth were closed to vehicles that weekend. The fireworks were amazing. I’d guess there was no bigger boom show until the Thames was completely covered in smoke during last year’s Y2K celebration. And I have been wrong before… ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209/60 "2001-01-06T03:57:51Z")
NASCAR races. Don’t know which one had the highest attendance. I’d say Dover Downs, probably, but Pocono seemed more crowded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-event-you-ever-attended/48209.md?page=2)