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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.Considering it is supposed to be driving rain all throughout the game and the Pats have field turf, does it really matter? If it was natural grass, I could see a problem. But with field turf, I don't think it will be any slicker come game time than if they took it off an hour before the game for pregame workouts.
haha no matter what surface you have, if there is driving rain, it will certainly matter. id have to agree that the tarp has not come out because we want the field to be slow for chris johnson
Well, it would matter even if it was tarped if there is a driving rain. Field turf doesn't hold the water though. In natural grass, collecting the rain would seep into and loosen the ground making the grass come up and create a sloppy, slower track. The rain on field turf sits on the top of the field (and drains to the sidelines) and can be squeegied off prior to the game.
A tarp doesn't really make much of a difference unless they expected it to stop raining prior to the start of the game.
maybe if there is a hi-tech drainage system tarp it wouldnt make a difference, but if that was the case it'd be similar to grass with or without.
When did squeegies become high tech? With a rubber surface underneath the grass, where exactly is the rain going to collect in a field turf? Maybe it is high tech rain that can obsorb into rubber and synthetic material.
It isn't similiar to grass in rain at all. The reason the Pats switched to field turf was because the elements ate apart the field and made it a slop fest. Field turf doesn't hold the water.
do you even know what field turf is?
do you even know what field turf is?
Do you?
"The surface is composed of monofilament polyethylene blend fibers tufted into a polypropylene backing. The infill is composed of a bottom layer of silica sand, a middle layer which is a mixture of sand and cryogenic rubber and a top layer of only rubber."
Rubber... HMMMMMM
Thanks....so what you are sayiong is with a LOT of rain the tarp means nothing...maybe ONLY a psychological advatange...and the will squegee it off before the game and at the half...I assume..Yes, there is artificial grass with a a very thin layer crush rubber (or other synthetic material) underneath (techincally sprinkled in) called infill and then a hard sysnthetic surface underneath it. There isn't enough crushed ruber/synthetic material layer to collect enough water to make a difference especially in a driving rain at game time.
Do you understand how how field turf works? The only reason you cover a field turf is to protect it from getting wet because it gets slick when it is wet. Below is a diagram of field turf. Tell me how leaving it out in the rain all day is going to make a significant difference than if they uncover it an hour or two before the game and the rain is accumulating at about an inch an hour? There probably isn't even an inch of infill.
Why no tarp on the field?New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston
Thanks....so what you are sayiong is with a LOT of rain the tarp means nothing...maybe ONLY a psychological advatange...and the will squegee it off before the game and at the half...I assume..
while i do not know the technology of the field turf system, i have played on it, alot. i know that there is some sort of artifical grass, laid on top of rubber pellets.
like any field though, there is only so much water a field can take before becoming flooded. regardless, the bottom, rubber surface will fill and become softer with rain. water will have an impact on the field, unless the underlying draining system has the ability to drain.