how is our field madeup?

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Maybe been discussed before....but I know about the plastic grass and rubber balls- so what is under the turf.
Concrete- blacktop- sand- dirt? What is the thickness of each material? If I was in full pads I think it would be reasonably cushy landing on the field.....whiners.
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Turf with rubber on top of sand and gravel base likely. No pavement or concrete under it.
 


Below the grass/rubber is 1.5' of sand and then approximately 1'-1.5' of large gravel (2"-4" diameter) with draintile.
 

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So the Bear and Viking complainers feel this will freeze and be too hard? So, the moisture in the ground potentially freezes in the rubber and sand making this harder, but how can it be harder than genuine frozen dirt and rock, etc with the frost? How did people play football for the past 100+ years? We've been effectively heating some fields with coils for what 10 or 15 years? How was football played before now?
 




gopherfield said:
So the Bear and Viking complainers feel this will freeze and be too hard? So, the moisture in the ground potentially freezes in the rubber and sand making this harder, but how can it be harder than genuine frozen dirt and rock, etc with the frost? How did people play football for the past 100+ years? We've been effectively heating some fields with coils for what 10 or 15 years? How was football played before now?
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As long as the Vikings have existed the fields have had heating coils. All of the games at the old met were played on heated soft turf.
 

I played on some grass fields that were torn up pretty badly. The grass would be gone for the rest of the season and, when it got cold, the field would turn very hard. I also played on the old astroturf in the FargoDome and Metrodome several times and no doubt the old astroturf was the hardest surface I've ever played on.
 



jovs said:
As long as the Vikings have existed the fields have had heating coils. All of the games at the old met were played on heated soft turf.
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Are you trying to say the met had heating coils? That would be wrong.
 

Lambeau field..

has had a heating system since 1966. Not saying the Met had it, but they have been around for a while. Never the less this particular field does not need it as the Gophers are done in Nov.
 

GophersInIowa said:
I played on some grass fields that were torn up pretty badly. The grass would be gone for the rest of the season and, when it got cold, the field would turn very hard. I also played on the old astroturf in the FargoDome and Metrodome several times and no doubt the old astroturf was the hardest surface I've ever played on.
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Amen. I last played in the FargoDome in '06. Surface was rock hard and the playing the Bison didn't make life any easier!
 

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