Stadium Wikipedia

[FreakyDeke]

I was reading the wikipedia page for the new stadium and the possibility of the Olympics/World Cup/etc. got me thinking. Since the turf is not painted, but actually different colors, how would they change the field for other events?

 

[anticallihan]

I see two options.

One you just put lines over it. Just how it goes. You see this all the time.

Or the money the comes in from the Olympics buys new turf.

 

[Schnauzer]

Soccer usually prefers grass so perhaps they'd add those modular real grass trays like they did at Giant's stadium a few years back?

 

[Bronko Nagurski Gopher]

Soccer usually prefers grass so perhaps they'd add those modular real grass trays like they did at Giant's stadium a few years back?

i would say go with this option as well. if you are going to play any type of world-class level soccer it should be done on real grass and not field turf. imo - soccer is different from football in these cases.

 

[Zeppelin Gopher]

World Cup games have been played on artificial turf in the past and will be again.

 

[Bronko Nagurski Gopher]

World Cup games have been played on artificial turf in the past and will be again.

i wasn't saying that they haven't been. i just think it is right. in soccer the ball is constantly rolling on the ground which obviously is much different that football where the playing surface is mainly run on. soccer on field turf (even the best stuff) just doesn't seem right to me.

 

[Schnauzer]

I remember reading that FIFA allows artificial turf to be used at some levels of their tournaments but not at the semifinal or final levels in world cup (can't remember the exact level it becomes grass-only).

In other words... TCF artificial turf should be fine for any of the level of tournament games they have suggested for it thus far. How they would fix the end zone paint and yard marker lines for a soccer-only look is another question.

 

[Sour1729]

I want to say Field Turf has to be replaced approximately every eight years anyway. So if Chicago gets the Olympics, the games would be here in 2016. That's about the time we'd have to replace it regardless of the soccer games so I'd think the Olympics could pay to put in whatever they want and then remove it, and we could come in after and put our new stuff in.