Gillette Stadium field turf being replaced.

[Don_the_patfan]

So I am Revs season ticket holder and during the last few weeks the Revs President informed us that the current field turf is being replaced.

The new surface will start to be installed next Monday after the Revs home opener and being installed by 4/12.

Revs need their own soccer specific stadium. Kraft is a great owner when it comes to pats but he needs to step up when it comes to revs. 20,000 in Somerville/Revere should be good. Cant get away with it anymore.

 

[Patsrock]

Have you actually been on the Gillette playing surface? I have (as part of a stadium tour when I had to burn up Visa reward points).

It gives a lot more than you might think. Remember that the "grass" is something like 5 or 6 inches long from its anchor point to its tip. Yet the visible part of the "grass" is less than an inch long. The hidden 4-5 inches is hidden by fill which is essentially a fairly thin layer of sand and then layers of shredded rubber. (Which is what you see shoot up into the air when a receiver drags his toe along the turf).

I have played on it and the turf sucked. Medford High has a better surface than the current Gillette one. But saying that the field does have give when landing on the field. The biggest problem that is has had the last 2 years is it is worn out.

The field that is being installed will actually have a better/softer base almost to the point of playing on grass.

The field turf is called FieldTurf:Revolution 2.5

 

[Patsrock]

Revs need their own soccer specific stadium. Kraft is a great owner when it comes to pats but he needs to step up when it comes to revs. 20,000 in Somerville/Revere should be good. Cant get away with it anymore.

Oh yeah I know. Been Revs STH since 1996. The Revs are being left behind in MLS growth.

 

[danmateus]

If you watch the hits carefully, you can see that the players bodies get wrenched more on turf than grass. Turf does not give so the players bodies have to take the stress. Also there are the nasty rug burns and infections. It certainly seems as if the Patriots had less injuries when they played on grass.

This is a highly-controversial point, but I prefer to watch my team on grass; I wince when I see one of our players hit the Gillette turf. It will be interesting to see if Talib does better on the grass field of Denver. I suspect that hip and achilles injuries are more common on turf and especially the non-contact injuries--remember Vinny Testeverde blowing his Achilles without ever being touched?

I prefer to watch them on grass as well...:smokin:

 

[EddieBlake]

I think that's good noting better the the fresh smell of turf on a nice summer day.

No ting at all my brotha!

 

[FredFromDartmouth]

The Patriots have not won a Super Bowl since they ripped up the grass....ha, obviously this is a coincidence (the David Tyree catch had nothing to do with the turf), but there does seem to be more injuries since then and the players seem to be more beat up in general.

 

[Major **********]

Personally I prefer they go back to the same grass seed they were using during the Super Bowl years. I know this new stuff is supposed to be better than the real thing, but they'd appease the superstitious side of me by going back to "all natural"

In any event I'm all for "ANUSTART" with some fresh turf

(Those that don't get the reference are really missing out)

Tobias! You blow hard!

 

[Patsrock]

Biggest problem from what I was told by a couple Revs Higher ups. Is that when they built the Stadium it was built poorly. North/South not East/West and was built to high and does not get enough sunlight to maintain a grass stadium. And that they figured it out sometime after the Stadium was built. The designer was sued and Kraft did get a settlement from it.

 

[Wheelman]

Is that cheating bastard still playing in the MLS?

Where does it say in the rulebook that the "hand of god" is not allowed?

 

[DarrylS]

The Patriots have not won a Super Bowl since they ripped up the grass....ha, obviously this is a coincidence (the David Tyree catch had nothing to do with the turf), but there does seem to be more injuries since then and the players seem to be more beat up in general.

The Patriots have not hosted a Superbowl since they ripped up the grass either, so????

 

[AzorianPats]

Revs need their own soccer specific stadium. Kraft is a great owner when it comes to pats but he needs to step up when it comes to revs. 20,000 in Somerville/Revere should be good. Cant get away with it anymore.

I posted on the Revs forum here that there's actually a serious rumor going around that within the next couple of weeks its going to be announced a new Revolution stadium being built in the up and coming Assembly Row area in Somerville.

 

[Patsrock]

I posted on the Revs forum here that there's actually a serious rumor going around that within the next couple of weeks its going to be announced a new Revolution stadium being built in the up and coming Assembly Row area in Somerville.

Been hearing that rumor since 2007.

 

[Gator Mike]

Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

From the New England Revolution:

Gillette Stadium upgrading field surface with most Revolutionary FieldTurf Offering
Revs and Patriots select FieldTurf’s Revolution surface

The first event on the new surface will be the Revolution vs. Houston Dynamo match on April 12.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (March 24, 2014) – Gillette Stadium officials announced that they are upgrading their field surface and the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution have selected FieldTurf’s Revolution turf system and VersaTile drainage and shock underlayment for its unparalleled player safety and extraordinary durability. The installation of the FieldTurf Revolution and VersaTile has begun and will be completed and ready for use for the Revolution’s next home match on April 12. The FieldTurf Revolution product is currently used at many venues across North America, including CenturyLink Field (home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and MLS’s Seattle Sounders) and Providence Park, home of the MLS’s Portland Timbers, where its installation was recently completed.

 

[oldrover]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

If it's brand new, how do they know it's safe for players?

It would be interesting to go back 10 years and record all NFL injuries, whether they occurred on grass or turf, and then get a stat like "injuries per minute" for each type of surface. Or maybe somebody's already done that...

 

[Big-T]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

If it's brand new, how do they know it's safe for players?

It's the same stuff used by Seattle according to ESPN and in the OP..so not totally new:

The Seattle Seahawks have the same playing surface at CenturyLink Field.

Gillette turf getting an upgrade - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

So going on that, it looks like it has longer blades for one thing and if it's safer for players, likely has better under layers to it too.

 

[Patsrock]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

It's the same stuff used by Seattle according to ESPN and in the OP..so not totally new:



Gillette turf getting an upgrade - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

So going on that, it looks like it has longer blades for one thing and if it's safer for players, likely has better under layers to it too.

It isn't the same thing Seattle has it is actually one generation higher and has much better based than Seattle has or what Gillette had. This was actually announced on February 9th. We had a meeting with the Revs president last month and told us all about it and what field they chose.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

Seahags had few injuries last year. May we join them in their success!

 

[Big-T]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

It isn't the same thing Seattle has it is actually one generation higher and has much better based than Seattle has or what Gillette had. This was actually announced on February 9th. We had a meeting with the Revs president last month and told us all about it and what field they chose.

In that case then you'd think the company who makes the stuff would have been collecting data from the Seahawks & Sounders (+ other teams that use it in other Stadiums) on injuries etc and seeing how it has performed and gone from there to improve upon it.

 

[Patsrock]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

In that case then you'd think the company who makes the stuff would have been collecting data from the Seahawks & Sounders (+ other teams that use it in other Stadiums) on injuries etc and seeing how it has performed and gone from there to improve upon it.

They do it is just not public information. That is the type of info the buyer and teams get when choosing surface. I have been apart of a committee to choice a field turf surface and the amount of data these companies have is astounding. Thousands of pages from medical to enviromental to player surveys.

The Revs and Pats had players testing out surfaces and they gave back the feedback. This was going last Nov and December during Pats practices. And January during Revs training camp.

 

[borg]

Re: Gillette Stadium upgrading FieldTurf surface

Will it make Gillette louder??