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Oh My!
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:22 am
by CARDIAC_CATS
How could the NFL even play a game last night on Monday night football with field conditions like that! I mean football in some mud! WOW! This is the NFL!
Just a hunch, but I bet the Eagles don't blame the grass on getting whipped so bad. At least they have the T.O excuse!
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:29 am
by grizbeer
The field looked pretty good, it seems it is possible to keep a grass field in good condition even if it freezes and snows.
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:32 am
by CARDIAC_CATS
grizbeer wrote:The field looked pretty good, it seems it is possible to keep a grass field in good condition even if it freezes and snows.
I know, the Eagles just had the wrong cleats. That was it
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:07 am
by vike_king
Weren't the sprinklers turned on before the game?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:52 am
by MSUCATS
They should have had a tarp on the field!!
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:21 am
by rtb
MSUCATS wrote:They should have had a tarp on the field!!
But the Seahawks probably wouldn't have had their tarp cleats!
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:51 am
by BobcatLionFan
grizbeer wrote:The field looked pretty good, it seems it is possible to keep a grass field in good condition even if it freezes and snows.
Nothing amazing about why Philly stadium was so playable last night. It just takes a little money.
The Lincoln Financial Field has a turf-warming system. The playing surface is constructed with a top canopy of the turf, then 10 in. of root zone, a sand layer, a peat layer, diatomaceous (silica-based) earth mix designed to hold moisture and then below that is the PEX tubing (Turf-Warming system). Below that is 12 in. to 18 in. of pea gravel for drainage and the tubing for the pop-up irrigation system.
The field is broken into six zones, covered by nearly 40 miles of 34-in. ZurnPEX tubing spaced 9 in on center. Each circuit is about 400 ft.
Two circulator pumps feed the circuits, each moving 300 gpm at 100 ft. of head. The circuits contain ball valves for isolation and zone valves in the boiler room for control. The system is piped reverse return.
The field system is DDC controlled via laptops that fire the boilers in sequence and control the zone pumps. There are eight field sensors in each zone, placed high strata and low strata and in four different locations. The sensors then average the temperatures and tell what zones to start up. The engineers did a shade study on what parts of field will have sun at what times.
With all this, I still like the idea of covering it with a tarp and using tarp cleats as mentioned.
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:27 pm
by catatac
Thank you for the update Cliff Claven!!!
Just kidding BLF, couldn't resist...
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:50 pm
by 94VegasCat
catatac wrote:Thank you for the update Cliff Claven!!!
Just kidding BLF, couldn't resist...
My thoughts exactly
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:51 pm
by Platinumcat
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:08 pm
by MSUCATS
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:42 pm
by BobcatLionFan
I thought my posting was funny and the cliff claven is hilarious.
It's just amazing that people would think an NFL field could be compared to any Div I-AA and most Div I-A fields (from Ohio State to Florida State).
So I decided to go overboard just to point out how crazy it was.
I am glad you appreciated the first part and i loved the clavin side.
Still think we should look into the tarp cleats however.
