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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Who owns the company providing the sod?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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Obama

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Christ on a collie!

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Then Michael McCaskey and/or whoever don't get their kickbacks...

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

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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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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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They're still researching how much safer real grass is for the players

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"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."

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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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

To do it right, it would have to be mud & painted sand vs. Field Turf.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

See, we can agree on consecutive points!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Christ on a gluten free cracker, I need a shower.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

In that pig farm of a town you live in, for you to finally notice you must really reek.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Anytime anyone agrees with you on anything, a good long shower is in order. Geography be damned.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Respect is how I approach RR and Reason.....too smart to mess with.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

No shit. Goddamn kids. We both need a shower now. I'll bring the soap on a roap.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

murph would be on in the background

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

On which one?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It'd be the first.

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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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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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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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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

No it isn't.

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