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All: The new Billszone site with the updated software is scheduled to be turned on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The company that built it, Dynascale, estimates a FOUR HOUR shut down, from 8pm Pacific, (5pm Eastern) while they get it up and running. Nobody will be able to post in any forum until they are done. Afterwards, you may need to do a web search for the site, as old links will not work, because the site is getting a new IP address. Please be patient. If there are bugs, we will tackle them one at a time. Remember the goal is to be up and running with no glitches by camp. Doing this now assures us of that, because it gives us all summer to get our ducks in a row. Thank you!
There is work to be done and things to be learned. We are going to try to get the old look back - or something close to it. We also know there are bugs. A thread will be started to report bugs and then we can pass those onto the host.
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Will be used for the first time in a game setting.
Do you think it will be better for teams to play on this new turf? I hear it's more forgiving thatn the old artificial turf, and actually acts like grass.
When I die, please don't let my wife sell my camera equipment for what I told her I paid for it.
Originally posted by billsfanone Why not? They have real grass in Chicago and Green Bay.
Yeah, and by end of nov, and all december, it is a solid dirt field... and is as hard as concrete. People get hurt on it all the time late in the year.
Walk outside in the middle of december.... (if you live in b-lo) and jump shoulder first into the ground... see if you wanna play on it in december... or be tackled by a 300 lb lineman.
It is amazing favre has played so long, under those conditions.
Originally posted by Pride Yeah, and by end of nov, and all december, it is a solid dirt field... and is as hard as concrete. People get hurt on it all the time late in the year.
Walk outside in the middle of december.... (if you live in b-lo) and jump shoulder first into the ground... see if you wanna play on it in december... or be tackled by a 300 lb lineman.
It is amazing favre has played so long, under those conditions.
I have. I played on grass and on turf. I never played on the new stuff., but from what I hear, it isn't really much better.
It'll be much better than the old stuff, which was basically indoor/outdoor carpeting over asphalt. I can't wait to see it Saturday night.
Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
Originally posted by Ð I heard a good quote @ turf on one of the sports highlights shows today...
"Turf is like an ugly girlfriend...you can dress her up, put makeup on her, etc, but wheen it comes down to playing, she's still ugly."
I dated a girl like that once- flat too....
Originally posted by Pride Yeah, and by end of nov, and all december, it is a solid dirt field... and is as hard as concrete. People get hurt on it all the time late in the year.
Walk outside in the middle of december.... (if you live in b-lo) and jump shoulder first into the ground... see if you wanna play on it in december... or be tackled by a 300 lb lineman.
It is amazing favre has played so long, under those conditions.
Green Bay's turf hasn't been frozen for a football game since the Ice Bowl- and only then because the pipes below the grass field broke down.
They have been using a series of steam pipes under their turf
for close to 50 years now.
It does not solve the age old riddle though- frozen or not- grass goes dormant in November/December and does not regenerate.
The meadowlands replaces it's grass each game- they have giant "trays" of grass that get installed like a parquey basketball floor- and it gets rotated in and out to a green house with other trays of grass. It's slightly better than sod because sod needs mor ethan a week to properly adhere to the ground (grow roots)
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