T-ShirtDynasty

Not sure I've ever mentioned this before.... but I loves me a muddy game of football.

JoeSixPat

It was turf all along

Turf and Sod are the same thing - as I said on the original thread, someone heard "turf" and assumed it meant "artificial turf"

There's dozens of turf farms near my house - they grow sod - not artificial turf

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Box_O_Rocks

You darned farmers, lording it over us ignorant slickers.

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Caspir

I think it's a load of crap that if other teams (won't name names) ***** enough, the NFL will force franchises to conform. If Belichick wants to play on a bed of rusty nails then that's his choice. All this hoopla is making other teams (again, no names) look even whinier than they already are.

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AzPatsFan

Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! real Grass !!!

Bostonian1962

Just like kids often grow up to be like their parents, it's ironic that Manning is such a whiner. Ironic because the Colts leadership (see parent analogy) are such whiners.

waspie (UK)

According to the Herald, we are getting Fieldturf - possibly in time for Thanksgiving.

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somejerk

The sod might be all screwed up by the time the Colts arrive anyway. They lay it down on the 25th, the Revolution play a home game on the 28th.

http://web.mlsnet.com/mls/schedule/index.jsp

If the Revolution win on the 28th, would they play another home game on the 4th?

jaychamp

I disagree. That field is an embarrassment and I for one am glad something is being done about it. It goes against the spirit of the game and we're probably lucky we or another team didn't have a major injury. That field is equivilant to the beach that Robert Edwards played on that basically ended his NFL career.

We've played 2 games on the road, and if it wasn't for a couple of fluke plays for the Jets, we would have 2 blowouts but yet we struggled against 2 inferior teams at home. I know it's early but I think the field has something to do with it. We'll see how the Bills game goes.

JoeSixPat

That was an erroneous report - and was actually not even a report - just based on the un-cited speculation from another media outlet, because they knew the NFL had demanded that the existing turf (or sod) be replaced.

Even this story clearly states that no one from the company or the team said they were getting Field Turf.

If any of the reporters had checked with the NFL they would know that teams are prohibited from change playing surfaces mid-season.

Maybe next season - who knows. I'm a purist, and prefer grass, but this new stuff is pretty close to the real thing - if the players like it, I like it.

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