nastiest conditions....

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'well played' fields have to be the worst.

One of our main fields is only used by football, but the city seems to hate putting water on it. Well, throughout the year it starts to dry up and grass turns into tumbleweed as the line markings fade into oblivion. I think it was the last game on that field last year when the kids would run by and a cloud of dust would follow them wherever they went.

We had to move plays around the field from hash mark to hash mark -- not because of wet conditions but because of unsafe dry conditions -- too much dust being blown up in the air to allow safe line play. Fortunately, the Canadian field is a little bigger and our hash marks are further apart so we have some room to work with. I don't know what we would have done for a NHFS game - I think we would have considered calling it becuase of the dust.