Grass field

[Black&BlueBubba]

Real grass please.  Let not have our new QB landing on concrete.  Grew up going to VET stadium in Philly.  That poo was a Parking lot to land on.  Especially in cold games.  
 

Edited April 21, 2023 by Black&BlueBubba

[KatsAzz]

12 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

I meant 3' lol. 

I suppose you mean 3' deep?

[NanuqoftheNorth]

If you haven't seen it in action here you go...

 

[Growl]

4 hours ago, Black&BlueBubba said:

Real grass please.  Let not have our new QB landing on concrete.  Grew up going to VET stadium in Philly.  That poo was a Parking lot to land on.  Especially in cold games.  
 

If this doesn’t convince Dave the dude is just pure ego

worried about your undersized QB? Get every advantage you can. Give him a cushioned playing surface to land on rather than green concrete.

[Sgt Schultz]

10 hours ago, Black&BlueBubba said:

Real grass please.  Let not have our new QB landing on concrete.  Grew up going to VET stadium in Philly.  That poo was a Parking lot to land on.  Especially in cold games.  
 

I grew up in St. Louis, and Busch Stadium had AstroTurf for a long time, too.  Horrible stuff.  I was a baseball umpire, and was on a crew that did an exhibition at Busch Stadium after a Cardinals baseball game one July.  We walked out on the field and you could see the heat waves rising from the turf.  Between that, the fact it was laid over pavement, and it caused "carpet burns" if exposed skin slid on it I never understood why anybody would use it.

Then, in winter, it basically froze and was harder than hell.

Field Turf and the newer surfaces are infinitely better than the original AstroTurf was, but they still aren't grass and dirt.

George Toma (aka the Sodfather), the former groundskeeper at Arrowhead Stadium and the guy the NFL has used for every Super Bowl (he's 94 now) said once that to properly care for an artificial surface was just as much work as natural grass.  But then again, he was so meticulous that when they brought him in before Super Bowl XVI in Detroit, he had a crew on their hands and knees for a week taking out clumps of fibers that welded together from the friction.