This smells just like starting a war and giving the fattest war contracts to your vice president’s former company with whom he has a stake in.

If that is the case, then why the hell doesn’t the NFL make Oakland cover up that horrible infield dirt.

Seriously… It’s 2011 and we can’t find a way to cover up dirt for a football game. A professional football game. The most popular game in the country and we don’t know how to cover up dirt.
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It’s something I hate about the Pats playing in Mia early in the season, that crap basebore field. It sucks. As does Heinz & Reliant.

Listen to MF, channeling his inner Bill Polian.

First, it is a definite advantage to the home team, no matter what type of surface the game is played upon. Playing on it ten times a year (minimum, except if you have to play in London) allows the home team more familiarity with it than any visiting team can have.

Second, in full disclosure, I am a Pat’s fan, and if you’re not aware, the Patriots practice every day all year at The Razor (Gillette Stadium). What this allows is all of the players to get used to prevailing wind conditions, field intricacies, Sun positioning, etc. I don’t think that this is done by Belichick out of neither convenience nor apathy. It is done to get any possible advantage available against his opponents.

Third, as mentioned above, the field surface at The Razor was replaced in mid-season, which is against the rules (yeah, another one we broke…) unless specifically approved by 280 Park Ave.

Forth, here’s a quick list of the worst playing surfaces in history:

1) Heinz Field

2) Houston (This field was responsible for Wes Welker’s torn ACL. Before the game, BB threatened to not even bring his team out and forfeit the game because it was such an unplayable surface.)

3)Solder’s Field

4) The old Boston Garden Parquet floor where the Celtics knew every dead spot within three inches.

5) The old grass field in Foxboro.

And people are right, da Bears do their training camp on grass. But C. Harris said it best when he said it’s a shame when a NAIA university has better grass than Soldier Field.

Oh and by the way, Keep the GRASS! This is Football!

Karma! It’s a b_____! Leave that terrible grass field. Helps continue the embarassment that is the Bears management.

The Park District makes a TON of money from the Bears for doing the work on the field (another bad Bears purchase huh?).

The Park District doesn’t want to switch over to Field Turf because it would cost them a lot of jobs and income…less to care for and less to do if Field Turf is installed.

So as usual, the Bears will suffer only this time because of a bunch of nonsense/politics. Another reason gov’t is stupid.

Build your own damn stadium that seats 75,000, has a real playing surface and no one else uses it every other weekend.
You have 9 championships and 27 members in the Hall of Fame so I am sure that you can add your own team Hall to the new place.

Get it over with already.

The game was intended to be played on grass. Domenik Hixon tore up his knee on the first play on the grassturf at the New Meadowlands. Has Jensen ever studied how many careers were lost on the crap turf at the old Vet or old Texas Stadium?

This is another Goodell ploy to appease the limp-wristed, fantasy football generation.

If he truly wanted to prevent injuries, he’d make all teams install GRASS.

if they want to keep paying for a safer field why not let them?

Lambeau is a grass/synthetic turf hybrid, with synthetic fiber woven into the sod. This prevents the sod from coming apart in bad weather.

The “frozen tundra” also doesn’t really freeze anymore. It has a brand new heating system, installed in 2006.