Field turf is the wave of the future.
I agree, field turf is a superior artificial surface...
I worked a game at Aloha Stadium last year and I noticed I was not sore after the game...
After the private-school double header we were hanging around and got to meet George Toma, the NFL playing surface guru. He has been in Hawaii off-and-on for the past several years supervising the renovation of the turf at War Memorial stadium on Maui (where they have the Hula Bowl and high school football) which is a nice grass field.
Mr. Toma was also assisting with the replacement of the Aloha Stadium astro-turf with the new field turf (the NFL was going to change the location of the Pro Bowl unless the State Stadium Authority changed the turf).
After the games we did, he hooked-up a grading contraption to the back of one of those Toro maintenance golf-carts and he went around the field leveling the ground-up tire material that sits on top of the sand and other aggregates layered over the fake glass blades...
Amazing that the field turf surface does require a certain amount of maintenance but for schools and municipalities looking to cut costs I was told field turf will pay for itself in under 7 or 8 years...
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Mike Simonds
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