 JEDIMACH & JOEY'S GIANTS ON GRASS (March
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1. JEDIMACH: The Rams
have speed and they will continue to draft speed. Speed is good. No matter who the opponents from year to year the Rams will have at a minimum 10 turf games a season. Of course, realignment could change that, but not significantly. The Rams, in 1999, played a total of 3 grass games (SF, Carolina and Tennessee). With record of 2-1 (and we all feel a good game tying field goal would have made it 3-0), it is clear that the Rams are able to play on the "soft" stuff. However, it is interesting to note that the Rams will play 4 grass games in 2000 (SF, Carolina, TB, and KC). 2. JOEY'S GIANTS: Add the Giants game as a grass game as well. 2000, Giants' Stadium finally has grass. In fact---finally all fields can have grass. With the invention of tray grass, all stadiums can how have grass. Now the technology is in place to change all fields to grass, and get rid of turf. I have never liked the turf because of the major injuries and pulled hamstrings you get on it. So the turf must go. I am an official in the Empire Football League---and even doing just the down markers on turf, the next day, my legs hurt. And pulls are very common. With teams paying millions of dollars for players, it is time to give the players a safer field. There are injuries as well on grass, but the turf causes many more. Scott Clark of Clark Company, the company who makes this tray grass, has the ability to place grass fields in all stadiums. This is a major undertaking, but it should be the law in the NFL. The past two years at Giants Stadium, this grass was used, and both the Jets and Giants have agreed to it, and mildew is no longer the main problem that held this project earlier. The mildew problem is gone now with the following: the cooling and warming system under this tray grass is the same that is used on the Augusta National Golf Course. This process started back in 1994, when Giants Stadium hosted some of the World Cup Soccer games. In order top play soccer, grass must be in place, and when the Giants saw how well the field lasted during the world cup, so they asked Scott to make them a field. Well he did. In order to place the grass field on the Giants' Stadium turf, it takes 40 hours of trucks moving each pc. which weighs 1100 lbs. The Rams have great team speed, and on turf look maybe faster, but they would be just as fast on grass. It is time that the league take a look at what Scott has done, and place grass on all fields. I hope the league and the players' union makes this the law of the league, but so far it seems not to be happening. |
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