Lambeau is switching to astroturf

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I'm really hoping our guys do a better job than they did in Philly, because Philly's hybrid field didnt' look too good during the January playoff game against the Giants. It was as bad as any clay based field I've seen in the last couple of years.


It's a pretty big deal that they've found a way to keep a grass field together on a sand surface. Sand drains really well but it also tears up too easily. This is the best of both worlds. You get the real grass and the drainage that goes along with a sand base and gravel sub-base.

Also, it will be heated better and from what I understand; it will be a much more comfortable surface in the winter months.

Again, I wasn't too impressed with Philly's. it was no worse than a clay field in a cold climate as far as how it held up but it was no better either. They didn't have to re resod all year so it's not apples to apples as a clay field would have likely been resodded before the game. Regardless, it's not some freakishly incredible breakthough. It sounds like a good surface, but it's sitll gonna get torn up in January.

was it tearing up in big chunks at all, or did it just look bad?

i read where its suppose to look and act just like the real thing, its just suppose to hold together a lot better

and i think the resodding is the main thing here. i read somewhere about this stuff. with the new fields they say you can get 900 playing hours out of it (based on soccer games), and some clubs have even played over 1400 hours on it in a season without problems. that site also said natural turf has a life span of about 300 playing hours (again based on soccer).

so you could be resoding two or three times more with the old stuff then you would with the new stuff

of course, if you can make it through the year the field would grow back to where it was before the season. so you would hope with the new stuff you would never have to resod

[GrnBay007]

So in other words, when the Packers have home field advantage in the playoffs this next season, Lambeau will look a hell of a lot better than the spaceship (soldier) field did during the playoff game?

[ND72]

It is real grass, with some synthetic stuff put into the turf. It's different than what New England has. New England has the full fledged field turf. I played on field turf in college, we were actually the first college at any level to install the field turf, and I love it. I think the Packers should just give up on the "tradition" bullshit and put that stuff in, they'd save a shit load of money. And it's better.

[Scott Campbell]

So in other words, when the Packers have home field advantage in the playoffs this next season, Lambeau will look a hell of a lot better than the spaceship (soldier) field did during the playoff game?

Lambeau could be hit by a nuke and still look better than Soldier Field.

[RashanGary]

So in other words, when the Packers have home field advantage in the playoffs this next season, Lambeau will look a hell of a lot better than the spaceship (soldier) field did during the playoff game?

Philly has the hybrid stuff and it looked on par with the space-ship. I think it plays a little better though.