I wouldn't trust anything from the DC United apology robot ... At this point I've heard them all ... It's the pitch. It's the refs ... It's the injuries. It's the weather. It's bad luck. It's too many games creating fatigue. It's not enough games to create rhythm. We're almost there and we'll be good any second now ... I've heard every excuse imaginable except the truth that the players are garbage, the coaches have no clue and the GM is stuck in the 90's
Funny, I just said a similar thing about DC in a different thread. Those losers will blame anyone else but themselves. Benny Olsen is a dead man walking over there at this point.
That's completely wrong. The field is heated, preventing it from freezing. The grass at Lambeau has a "heating system underneath it, a sand base, synthetic fibers woven into the grass and growing lights above it 24 hours a day during the growing season." http://www.jsonline.com/sports/pack...oft-through-technology-763p13j-137327223.html
I highlighted something for you. The growing season for grass ends well before the end of the NFL season. Even with the heated field, glow lights, and tarps there is only so much a team can do to extend the growing season.
The heating system is a foot below the surface to moderate the surface temperature. They don't turn up the heat to a level that would quickly melt the snow on the surface because the field would then turn to mush. That's why even though the field is heated, snow still accumulates on the surface. Here's Lambeau Field from this December, dead and brown, with snow on the surface.
We did an experiment in high school biology where we had plants that got 24hrs of grow lights, and another set that was dark 1/2 and light 1/2. We all assumed the light all the time plants would do better. They didn't. It turned out the plants absorbed the energy in the day and converted (grew) that energy in the dark. I'm surprised that professionally cared for grass isn't treated the same way.
Technically it said the lights were above the grass 24 hours a day, it didn't say if they were turned on or not.
well in my defense, it's an awfully stupid way to state that they have grow lights in the stadium. Only the tedious pr!cks around these parts would pick that up. I say that with only love in my heart.
For a while? Since our inception. Then again, I don't know what you guys have to brag about in MLS. Both of us only have participation ribbons... and by the looks of it, we're better off than you at this stage.
None of those places play American football, which as stated, is what destroys the field. You want grass, you need a soccer-specific place and that's it. Jeld-wen isn't.
I'm really beginning to wonder, as MLS is about to add Atlanta turf and very likely Minnesota turf, if the unthinkable will happen.... Will the rest of the world start considering turf a viable option?
Sharing surfaces is the bigger issue than turf or grass. You share a surface with a football team, NCAA or NFL, it's likely going to look and play like crap at times. That it happens in the playoffs is even worse. I don't think Atl or any expansion team for that matter should be accepted if sharing with a football team. It's tough to undo what's already there around the league in some cities, but you can make it a requirement for expansion teams to figure out how not to share their surface if they want to enter the league. Shouldn't even qualify as a SSS in my eyes if you share it with a football team. SSS for example means nothing to me in Houston when their surface has been torn up before a playoff game. That's not soccer specific. Give me a non-soccer specific stadium instead where the surface is not shared.
The stadium will adjust and move seats and they are working on a line system that can disappear for game days. blank isnt doing this half assed.