Sean Pa Patriot
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I would be okay with the field turf stuff like Nebraska plays on. It looks and feels like grass and isn't nearly has hard on the players as the stuff that the Colts use.Sean Pa Patriot said:I know the field looks like crap, and it would look much nicer on TV with the fake grass.. But count me out on the syntetic grass, I know Brady has a great record on it, but I want the real stuff, just re sod it and take care of it better, That is all.. But no fake stuff for me..
Alk said:I would be okay with the field turf stuff like Nebraska plays on. It looks and feels like grass and isn't nearly has hard on the players as the stuff that the Colts use.
CTPatsFan said:I would think that RK has too much invested only to just yank it all out and field turf it.
But how about a Pats Blue field like Boise State's Smurf Turf. Or maybe one humongous Flying Elvis field. Hmmmm.....
CTPatsFan said:I would think that RK has too much invested only to just yank it all out and field turf it.
But how about a Pats Blue field like Boise State's Smurf Turf. Or maybe one humongous Flying Elvis field. Hmmmm.....
The only problem is, the field they're playing on now is almost as bad as the old astroturf when they first came out with it. A field covered in broken glass would be better.Seymour93 said:Mike Compton said it best on NFL Countdown a few years back when field turf was starting to pop up around the league... paraphrasing... "It's still turf. It's turf dressed up."
Keep the grass.
I'm just kidding, Tune. The Broncos field actually hurts the eyes when you look at it!Tunescribe said:NOOOOO!!!! That Boise State field is hideous. Trying to watch a game being played on a blue field would give me migraines.
So when it is said they can do nothing now at Gillette...do you think that is true???CTPatsFan said:I'm just kidding, Tune. The Broncos field actually hurts the eyes when you look at it!
Being that it pays my bills, I'm a huge advocate of natural turf and hate to see conversions to plastic. Field turf is NOT maintenance free nor inexpensive to maintain. They have a 5-7 year life span depending on usage, require regular vacuuming and brushing, constant replacement of the crumb rubber fill (that makes the field 'give' and hold the 'turf' blades upright) and should actually be disinfected fairly often (they hold all kinds of funky bacteria).
Natural turf gets a bad rap when it is poorly maintained, whether intentional or not. We supply the bluegrass seed, soil amendments and foliar fertilizers to the contractor that maintains Rentschler Field where UConn plays "football" (they may suck but their field is awesome). In the roughly three years he's had the contract we've helped him push a stagnant 2" root system (the sod never left the layer it was harvested with and would slide when the players played on it) to over 12"+ and solid. The Rent has no where near the turf growing amenities that the Razor has and is used for concerts, H.S. football tourneys, soccer tourneys, etc. not unike Gillette. It is absolutely possible.
Sean Pa Patriot said:I know the field looks like crap, and it would look much nicer on TV with the fake grass.. But count me out on the syntetic grass, I know Brady has a great record on it, but I want the real stuff, just re sod it and take care of it better, That is all.. But no fake stuff for me..
SoonerPatriot said:No field turf needed. What's needed is to get that ridiculous, completely irrelevant soccer team out of Gilette.