Soldier Field groundscrew can't grow grass.

[Patler]

Public practice at Soldier Field canceled because playing surface was unsafe. Team was bused there, then had to go back. Fans showed up, but practice canceled.

They had all summer to prepare for this, and failed. Kind of funny, really.

Article:

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Soldier-Field-grounds-crew-drops-ball.html

[Yoop]

Public practice at Soldier Field canceled because playing surface was unsafe. Team was bused there, then had to go back. Fans showed up, but practice canceled.

They had all summer to prepare for this, and failed. Kind of funny, really.

Article:

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/...rops-ball.html

city owned stadium, state controlled finances, thats the problem with the field, no money. glad we dont have those problems, our field is among the best in the league. I remember going there back in the 70's, it looked like the players where playing in quick sand, it's always been a mud hole, course back then concrete was considered safe to play on.

[Fosco33]

Guess it's good that we play them end of September - better than late Season where it is very tough surface.

[Patler]

city owned stadium, state controlled finances, thats the problem with the field, no money. glad we dont have those problems, our field is among the best in the league. I remember going there back in the 70's, it looked like the players where playing in quick sand, it's always been a mud hole, course back then concrete was considered safe to play on.

All true, but it doesn't seem that finances were the problem this time. A "miscalculation" and they didn't get enough water on the field causing seems in the new sod to open? Kind of remarkable, really.

[MJZiggy]

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Sometimes I think they keep Chicago there just for our entertainment...How can a grounds crew not know when to water new sod????

[smuggler]

God, what the hell are the Bears doing lately?

[gbgary]

saw that and had to laugh. da bearz!

[Patler]

Unfortunately, I don't think we can blame the Bears for this, even though we would like to. I don't think the Bears have any control over it at all. They are simply a renter, and show up at scheduled times expecting the place to be ready.

However, I think we can blame "Chicago" generally, and everything associated with it!

[Yoop]

Unfortunately, I don't think we can blame the Bears for this, even though we would like to. I don't think the Bears have any control over it at all. They are simply a renter, and show up at scheduled times expecting the place to be ready.

However, I think we can blame "Chicago" generally, and everything associated with it!

haha. it is all on the city, papa George wanted to buy Soldier field years ago, and the city wouldn't sell, then he tried to move them north out of the city to Arlington or Shaumburg another suburb, the city wouldn't let him out of the lease, and would take away Chicago from the name sake Chicago Bears, in essense the city has controlled the team for years, so ya we can blame the city of Chicago, and all it's crooked politicians, heck George is dead, cant blame him any more lol.

[Guiness]

They can turn their friggen river green, but not their fields? LOL

How can you NOT laugh at this?

[jklowan]

maybe they should hire Ricky Williams, he'd get some grass to grow

[Smidgeon]

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Sometimes I think they keep Chicago there just for our entertainment...How can a grounds crew not know when to water new sod????

For a second there, I thought you had referred to their grounds crew as a "grenade crew". With the rate they're destroying the field, it even made sense...

[pbmax]

I would like to see how that lawsuit would have turned out. The City of Chicago versus the Chicago Bears over the use of the city name in the business name. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the New York Giants and the New York Jets could have been very different franchises.

[K-town]

I would like to see how that lawsuit would have turned out. The City of Chicago versus the Chicago Bears over the use of the city name in the business name. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the New York Giants and the New York Jets could have been very different franchises.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, if translated literally, is something like The The Angels Angels of Anaheim. Anaheim, I believe, is a derivative of a German phrase meaning "by or near a river." The The Angels Angels, in a van down by the river.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I hate that sloppy field, it ruins games. It is such a stupid, stupid sitution. The mixed grass-turf works great, what century are those people living in?