Boyzmamacita;2776165 said:
They're only using real grass for soccer games, which begs the question, why can't we do that for Cowboys games? Too expensive?
Kitty cats play wiff their wittle round ball on real grass because the tread of their wittle bitty feetsies doesn't amount to the stress our back-up kicker would put on the real stuff.
You've got to have a pretty big substrate for the grass to hold and hold well. Arizona has real grass in their place, but the whole field rolls out into the sunlight. Our stadium isn't designed to take out the entire field to sit in full sun since field level is below ground level. In order for the stadium to seat as many as it does and save money in the process, the field was built below ground level and that pretty much precluded a real grass surface.
Now they may put in a real grass surface for the little guys to kick that ball around, but that same surface would be demolished by halftime in an NFL game. The forces a OL puts on the grass coming out of a four point stance compared to a what a little soccer player puts on it while flopping around like he's been hit in the knee with an axe aren't even comparable.
The whole tray design to take out and roll in the grass in Arizona just wouldn't work here. They needed a hole in order to reduce construction heights on the dome itself. They were already pushing it on the limits of mobile cranes hanging the center truss on the arches. If you've got to lift that truss another 50'....Let's say big 300 ton plus rigs aren't very common and they aren't real cheap either.
