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I hated playing on it during the daytime outdoors.
It's like playing on hot plastic and burns your skin from the heat.
Plus those little black things on the carpet get everywhere.
Cowboys concerned about Levi Stadium turf
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I hated playing on it during the daytime outdoors.
It's like playing on hot plastic and burns your skin from the heat.
Plus those little black things on the carpet get everywhere.
KJJ
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The synthetic turf today that NFL teams play is much better than the old astroturf it's a lot softer.
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The problem is because of having stuff like tractor pulls and other events in the stadium to generate more revenue. You know these NFL teams are so cash strapped they could never just have a football stadium for football. Who cares if the turf sux? The owner is raking in $$$$$$$$$$$.
They do all this other stuff in the stadium and are changing the sod all the time because of it. Could you imagine if they had tractor pulls on the 18th green at Augusta when it isnt Masters Weekend so they could generate a lil "extra" income?
My goodness, why not use the football stadium just for football? Its not like the NFL doesnt generate billions. If the league can flush $5 million down the toilet on the Wells Report certainly they could afford to have their stadiums playing surfaces in tip top shape.
They do all this other stuff in the stadium and are changing the sod all the time because of it. Could you imagine if they had tractor pulls on the 18th green at Augusta when it isnt Masters Weekend so they could generate a lil "extra" income?
My goodness, why not use the football stadium just for football? Its not like the NFL doesnt generate billions. If the league can flush $5 million down the toilet on the Wells Report certainly they could afford to have their stadiums playing surfaces in tip top shape.
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"When the grass began coming up again this month in training camp, the team met with consultants, studied sod samples, then concluded there was a problem with the stolons. Stolons are horizontal shoots of grass that live above the soil, between the roots and the blades of green stuff. Bermuda grass comes not from seeds, but stolons that are chopped up and spread like mulch.
Mercurio determined that the 49ers' stolons were getting too "mature," weakening the sod's staying power. "That means that somebody wasn't necessarily maintaining the field as much as we'd like at the sod farm," he said. "That's where we feel the failing was taking place in that particular plot. It wasn't maintained, shall we say, to our standards." So he began dispatching members of the stadium's grounds crew to the sod farm to prune the grass through a method known as "verticutting."
Wilkinson, who has never inspected Levi's field, suspects the 49ers' troubles are not over. "You don't verticut before you harvest," he said in a phone interview after hearing Mercurio's diagnosis. "That makes it weak because you're cutting its tensile strength. It's stupid."
He also was startled to learn that the team was still using West Coast Turf Farm as one of its growers. "Any time a customer tells a producer how to grow his grass," Wilkinson said, "there's something wrong with that. The fact that they're still using the same grower tells me they're not really upset with him..."
http://home.toshiba.com/news/read/c...ubled_turf_gets_first_test_sunday_against-tca
Mercurio determined that the 49ers' stolons were getting too "mature," weakening the sod's staying power. "That means that somebody wasn't necessarily maintaining the field as much as we'd like at the sod farm," he said. "That's where we feel the failing was taking place in that particular plot. It wasn't maintained, shall we say, to our standards." So he began dispatching members of the stadium's grounds crew to the sod farm to prune the grass through a method known as "verticutting."
Wilkinson, who has never inspected Levi's field, suspects the 49ers' troubles are not over. "You don't verticut before you harvest," he said in a phone interview after hearing Mercurio's diagnosis. "That makes it weak because you're cutting its tensile strength. It's stupid."
He also was startled to learn that the team was still using West Coast Turf Farm as one of its growers. "Any time a customer tells a producer how to grow his grass," Wilkinson said, "there's something wrong with that. The fact that they're still using the same grower tells me they're not really upset with him..."
http://home.toshiba.com/news/read/c...ubled_turf_gets_first_test_sunday_against-tca