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Hard Rock Stadium field condition updates

During our heyday in the Orange Bowl, we had a non-grass field. In that vain, there was an inherent advantage with the heat eminating from the playing surface (which you know that field gave off) when teams came to South Florida. Someone mentioned earlier (paraphrasing) that "football was meant to be played on grass." According to whom?

I believe upwards of 21 teams/stadiums have FieldTurf installed...more than half the league. There was SO MUCH HYPE about our renovated stadium having a premier playing surface using a technology that would rival any other venue with a grass surface. And if it can't be grown in South Florida with ideal weather, then where? All we read about nowadays is how the turf has to replaced ROUTINELY (never giving it a chance to take root), either wholesale (which makes GREAT economic sense - NOT!) or certain patches on the field which is not only lame from the way it looks, to the way it plays (which is TOTALLY DANGEROUS from a players' perspective, not knowing what kind of surface you'll be on, or moving from one patched area to another, depending where one is on the field). Having two games (college and pro) in 24 hours on a surface like this SUCKS. I'm sure the non-football events like concerts, etc (which will be more prevalent to get year-round use of the newly-renovated stadium) contribute to this as well since there would be multiple configuration changes to the floor of the bowl to accomodate. If FieldTurf were installed, that would all go away.

There's no specific body of evidence that players, with the new and improving FieldTurf techonology, are any more susecpible to injury on that surface vs. grass. In fact, there are multiple references to surfaces like Lucas Oil Stadium (voted best surface in the NFL) being the benchmark for the rest of the league. Couple that with their stadium being used annually for the Combine, where teams are evaluating players at all levels - no better place to do that, then on the best field in the league.

SO - let's petition Mr. Ross once and for all to install FieldTurf so ALL the above (and more) can be addressed, and we never have to worry about the playing surface again.

I'm sure there's more I can say, but that's all I can think of for right now.

~DD
 
...and for the occasional soccer games which require grass, real turf can be temporarily installed over the Field Turf.
 
Letter To Ross:

Dear Ross,

Fix the field. You’re going to hurt someone.

Signed,

Rational football fan
 
There's two weeks before the next home game. Get it done.
 
I hate to lose a natural surface but this can't continue. If they are allowed then they need to install turf the rest of the season and figure something else out next year. The NFL should probably step in because that field is an embarrassment to the league
 
my god it's more safe to let them play during a lightning storm. Gonna be a lot of sore knees post game and we're on a short week. Awesome.
 
dirwuf said:
...and for the occasional soccer games which require grass, real turf can be temporarily installed over the Field Turf.
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Negative...they play professional soccer in Seattle at CenturyLink Field which is FieldTurf...received a FIFA 2-star rating, validating the overall quality of the playing surface...

What "occasional" soccer games are you speaking of?
 
Just got home from being at the game and the field was pure trash, so much slipping and sliding. They need to get this issue fixed. A nice shiny new stadium with new bells and whistles but the most imortant part, the field, is trash!
 
Thought we had a retractable roof?
 
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