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| Author: | conns7901 [ Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
How is this allowed every year? Who is getting the kickbacks which make the Bears not want to put Turf in? The Bears have far bigger problems than their playing field. But their playing field continues to be a problem. As explained by Mark Potash of the Chicago Sun-Times, Soldier Field will be getting new sod before the next home game, on November 16 against the Vikings. Based on the total damage done by a rugby match between New Zealand’s All Blacks and the USA Golden Eagles, the playing surface will be partially or fully replaced. It’ll be the third time this year that new sod has arrived. Before the preseason opener, the entire playing surface was replaced. After the first regular-season home game, new sod was added down the middle of the field. If the Bears can’t up come with a way to consistently provide a quality playing surface, at some point they should be forced to install FieldTurf. Whether in Chicago or elsewhere, it’s amazing that NFL owners will continue to expose their players to undue risk of injury from playing on substandard playing surfaces. Apart from the fact that it’s right to care about the health of the players, a huge financial investment has been made in these men. Giving them a crappy field to play on puts that investment in avoidable jeopardy. |
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| Author: | Darkside [ Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
Who owns the company providing the sod? |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:37 pm ] |
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Darkside wrote: Who owns the company providing the sod? Obama |
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| Author: | Darkside [ Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:39 pm ] |
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badrogue17 wrote: Darkside wrote: Who owns the company providing the sod? Obama Christ on a collie! |
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| Author: | Scorehead [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
Is this about keeping the Chicago park district union employees working? For God sakes, there are numerous high schools who have field turf. Install field turf in soldier field for $1 million & be done with it. |
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| Author: | Beebo [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:56 pm ] |
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Then Michael McCaskey and/or whoever don't get their kickbacks... |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
It is a demonstration of the inability of an ownership to resolve a simple situation, now you know why they had to come begging to Jerry to get State funding. when you add up everything the bears organization does poorly, it is a complete clown car. Just the fact they "RENT the smallest stadium in the NFL and have a terrible lease on top of it, demonstrates their lack of foresight in any issue. Imagine if you leased 1000SF for a hot dog stand and the owner gave you a lease that said...once a month, he will be able to rent it out for a party and you need to move out on those days. No other team in professional sports has the lack of control over their facility like the Bear do. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
I wish the Bears had just slapped up a big, comparatively cheap stadium somewhere in the suburbs instead of forcing Parthenon Spaceship and its Park District bullshit on us all. Chicago itself doesn't really need the Bears. Boston and New York somehow manage to be great American cities without big-ass football fields next to their museums and waterfronts; whether that's an "in spite of" or a "because of" depends on what you think of the NFL, I suppose. |
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| Author: | Mr. Hernandez [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:37 pm ] |
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They're still researching how much safer real grass is for the players |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:43 pm ] |
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Curious Hair wrote: I wish the Bears had just slapped up a big, comparatively cheap stadium somewhere in the suburbs instead of forcing Parthenon Spaceship and its Park District bullshit on us all. Chicago itself doesn't really need the Bears. Boston and New York somehow manage to be great American cities without big-ass football fields next to their museums and waterfronts; whether that's an "in spite of" or a "because of" depends on what you think of the NFL, I suppose. I wholeheartedly agree. I'd rather not put Chicago $ the first into the pockets of the useless offspring of the old bastard Halas. |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:43 pm ] |
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Mr. Hernandez wrote: They're still researching how much safer real grass is for the players To do it right, it would have to be mud & painted sand vs. Field Turf. |
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| Author: | Mr. Reason [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:44 pm ] |
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Field Turf squelches future opportunity for graft. The Field Turf thread was one of the good ones. Is it still around? |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:45 pm ] |
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Mr. Reason wrote: Field Turf squelches future opportunity for graft. The Field Turf thread was one of the good ones. Is it still around? See, we can agree on consecutive points! |
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| Author: | Mr. Reason [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:51 pm ] |
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Regular Reader wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Field Turf squelches future opportunity for graft. The Field Turf thread was one of the good ones. Is it still around? See, we can agree on consecutive points! Christ on a gluten free cracker, I need a shower. |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:54 pm ] |
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Mr. Reason wrote: Regular Reader wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Field Turf squelches future opportunity for graft. The Field Turf thread was one of the good ones. Is it still around? See, we can agree on consecutive points! Christ on a gluten free cracker, I need a shower. In that pig farm of a town you live in, for you to finally notice you must really reek. |
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| Author: | Mr. Reason [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:57 pm ] |
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Regular Reader wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Regular Reader wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Field Turf squelches future opportunity for graft. The Field Turf thread was one of the good ones. Is it still around? See, we can agree on consecutive points! Christ on a gluten free cracker, I need a shower. In that pig farm of a town you live in, for you to finally notice you must really reek. Anytime anyone agrees with you on anything, a good long shower is in order. Geography be damned. |
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| Author: | denisdman [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:13 pm ] |
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Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with. |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:16 pm ] |
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denisdman wrote: Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with.
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| Author: | Mr. Reason [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:21 pm ] |
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Regular Reader wrote: denisdman wrote: Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with. No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. |
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| Author: | SomeGuy [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:24 pm ] |
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Mr. Reason wrote: Regular Reader wrote: denisdman wrote: Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with. No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. Gosh, I can just imagine you two fellas in the shower, getting all soaped up and singin' a Go Cubs tune! |
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| Author: | Mr. Reason [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:25 pm ] |
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SomeGuy wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Regular Reader wrote: denisdman wrote: Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with. No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. Gosh, I can just imagine you two fellas in the shower, getting all soaped up and singin' a Go Cubs tune! Give it to me, Nate. |
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| Author: | RFDC [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:27 pm ] |
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SomeGuy wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: Regular Reader wrote: denisdman wrote: Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with. No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. Gosh, I can just imagine you two fellas in the shower, getting all soaped up and singin' a Go Cubs tune! murph would be on in the background |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:24 pm ] |
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RFDC wrote: SomeGuy wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. Gosh, I can just imagine you two fellas in the shower, getting all soaped up and singin' a Go Cubs tune! murph would be on in the background On which one? |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
Curious Hair wrote: I wish the Bears had just slapped up a big, comparatively cheap stadium somewhere in the suburbs instead of forcing Parthenon Spaceship and its Park District bullshit on us all. Chicago itself doesn't really need the Bears. Boston and New York somehow manage to be great American cities without big-ass football fields next to their museums and waterfronts; whether that's an "in spite of" or a "because of" depends on what you think of the NFL, I suppose. How about the city put a little more money into the project and had an amazing dome that generated money from the vast number of major events we don't get in chicago? That is much more plausible and realistic on so many levels. Because the chances of the Mccaskeys putting their own money into something like a stadium are slim and none. |
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| Author: | RFDC [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:48 pm ] |
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Don Tiny wrote: RFDC wrote: SomeGuy wrote: Mr. Reason wrote: No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap. Gosh, I can just imagine you two fellas in the shower, getting all soaped up and singin' a Go Cubs tune! murph would be on in the background On which one? 
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:57 pm ] |
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bigfan wrote: an amazing dome It'd be the first. |
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| Author: | pittmike [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:17 pm ] |
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As long as they are changing all the rules to make it offense/arena football might as well play it all in sterile indoor stadiums. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Soldier Field will be resodded, again |
For all Soldier Field's many, many faults, at least it's still open-air. It's ugly, it's too small, it's a waste of good real estate, the sod won't take, but imagine how miserable the whole Bears experience would be if they went 9-7/7-9 every year and did it in some equivalent of the Pontiac Silverdome. Fantasy dome or real-world shithole, the Bears' facility would be completely outclassed by Lambeau Field, a stadium in the kind of town where you expect to read that a pig tried to run for mayor. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:00 pm ] |
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Curious Hair wrote: For all Soldier Field's many, many faults, at least it's still open-air. It's ugly, it's too small, it's a waste of good real estate, the sod won't take, but imagine how miserable the whole Bears experience would be if they went 9-7/7-9 every year and did it in some equivalent of the Pontiac Silverdome. Fantasy dome or real-world shithole, the Bears' facility would be completely outclassed by Lambeau Field, a stadium in the kind of town where you expect to read that a pig tried to run for mayor. Have you been to Soldier Field? It is outclassed by Lambeau at every turn....here is a thought....Retractable? I have heard they make them these days. City of PHx having it's second super bowl due to this facility and that place is incredible! |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:39 pm ] |
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bigfan wrote: City of PHx having it's second super bowl due to this facility and that place is incredible! No it isn't. |
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