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And today is the one year anniversary of this thread

Wow! It has been a year. This thread has been great, I am glad to heve been a part of it!

I am enjoying the textures. One of the more difficult parts of this effort has been the colors of the field itself. The "Current" version of the field for SB XLIX looks as correct as I can place it. I havea very large file I found on Bing. Giving a "Birds eye" view of the entire field. During the team intoductions. The colors look right, though the yard lines and borders look a bit more "Cream", but that could be the fact the roof was open, and the new LED lights had not taken full effect at the time of the picture.

Are you using photoshop or Photoshop elements? That is how I did texures on some of my earlier attempts.

I love the field cutout for Sun Devil Stadium. It was a couple of years earlier that ASU lowered the field for hosting Super Bowl XXX. Of course Sun Devil is going to look a lot different as it is undergoing a complete refit and reduction of seats (in it role now as a college stadium, and minor bowl game stadium) it did not need to hold 70K+ it should do well at 50K where they project the final seating will be after all the upgrades!

I also made other changes to the Super Bowl XIV field, including a completely different number font.

Yea, seems like the number fonts at the Rose Bowl where always a bit different than most other stadiums for some reason or another!

When SB XLII was also played in the UofP stadium that field was donated to Moon Valley HS in Phoenix. That field has been well cared for and is one of the best High School fields in the state. This season, the Arizona Cardnials also donated on thier own thier early season practice field and the mid season playing fields to other Other Local High Schools. NFL charter High School (charter), Arizona Lutheran High School (parochal), and Camelback High School (Phoenic Union High School district). All where in desperate need of new fields, and did not have the necessary funds to even begin the project.

If anyone wonders what happens to a field after the superbowl. The field for SB XLIX, was donated to the Tolleson Union High School located in the suburb of Tolleson, AZ (about 9 miles south from the UofP stadium). This was a $70K gift to a school that desperately needed a new field to go with additional work on thier other athletic facilities. It was easy to donate the field as the Cardinals use a different type of sod for thier games, than what the NFL preferes for the Super Bowl (when real grass is used instead of Field Turf!)

Super Bowl XXXVIII Update

I changed the numbers and the helmets in the endzone by adding a thicker boarder around them. Also for the game it looks like the added sod around the outside of the field (the darker grass) and I'm not sure if that was just for the Super Bowl or if they had the sod outside the field the entire '03 season. Looking back at pictures Houston did a really good job with the stadium and the field. Everything was really colorful and kept with the space theme and made it feel like a big event. Hopefully they will do as well with Super Bowl LI.

Official Super Bowl XXXVIII field post

Many times sod will be added to a field (especialy outside the sideines) Just way too much traffic and with the camera carts and all the photogaphers up and down the sidelines. The sidelines can get very "bare" over the course of a season.

Super Bowl XLIV Update

There are some clear changes, that being the dirt around the field and adding the team boxes. I also changed the numbers and made the Colts blue just slightly lighter.

Official Super Bowl XLIV Post

It technicaly was not "Dirt" it was a synthetic compound that resembled dirt but was solid instead of granualated. It was far more stable as the stadium converted so much from baseball to football!

And as a Referee, (and general fan) I was wondering what in the name of all that was holy! Why a slant pattern on a 2nd and 1 on the One? Who came up with that call with 20 seconds left, 2 time outs in hand, and Beast Mode in the backfield?

Can anyone say Epic Fail?????????

Your SB XLIX logos came out better than mine did (I'm going to update that!) . And yes the actual surface looked great under the AZ sunshine. The last touch-ups, (a day prior to the game) had the colors slightly lighter than the orginal painting earlier in the week. It looked far better than the super dark Navy it first was painted.

It never ends....LoL.

Flying Elvis is under the wordmark. Notice how Elvis is missing beside the wordmark?

Will there be a couple Elvi?

That can't be real. Has to be some kind of sick joke or something because the lake in logic and consistency in this field is mind boggling. I might wait a bit to make changes until I see the full field, because who knows what other disasters are present on this mess. But by the looks of it, there won't be a logo at the left end of the Patriots endzone.

Oh dear God in heaven. What now is with tihis nonsence. This ecplains why the Patriots endzone was blank yesterday! I think I am going to puke

OK I am endevoring to get a larger pic but the field looks to be very simular to The recent Super Bowls (XLV to XLVIII) with NFL Shield in the middle, generic Super Bowl XLIX logos on the "25's" Anticipating Patriots to the Left or North east endzone. and Seahawks to the South West or Right endzone. Biggest change is in the team boxes. The top or (east) endzone is the Visitors box and looks to be painted remiesent to the Super Bowls prior to Super Bowl XL (crossed "X" design in team colors with) Blue, Silver and white (and the "Flying Elvis logo in the center) for the Patriots and Silver, Blue and White with the Seahawks logo in the center) for the Seahawks. Now could this make a possibility of a silver endzone for the Seahawks instead of Blue (I would love to see that). That is what I am Endevoring to find currently.

Looking at the pics form the UofP twitter feed and the AZ Cardinals webpage. They went very minimalistic with the Pro Bowl field. Most lines where not as bright as they could have been. No additional logos or lines except the NFL Shield in the middle of the field. Very boring, but they did not want to do tomuch as this is also the surface for the Super Bowl as well (with replacing the end zones turf and a few touch-ups in the playing area).Everything will be brighter and begin to to take shape in the next 48 hours.

Yea I noticed that too. And the cut of the field looks almost Parque'ish. Man that would be hard to replicate...even in photoshop! LOL!

Breaking news. The Seahawks and Patriots will not be wearing their game uniforms for the NFL media day. They will be wearing team themed sweats, and shirts. A very big bummer and just a grab for $$$, as some poor Shmoe... er, Fan will shell out the $$$ just because.

Unfortunately I did not not get the full crediential I hoped for, as the guy from UPI got it instead. But I did get a feed from the University of Phoenix STadium Facebook and twitter accounts. With pictures as the field is set and rolled in. SO I hope to have the pro Bowl field pic shortly. As far as I can tell the Pro Bowl field is very minimal, NFL shield in the center of the field and Pro Bowl endzones. Hope to see more as they pull the field out in a day or so to redo the endzones and minor areas in the playing area.

News Flash. I think I am getting the credential, I will know in a day or two. And since the stadium is so far from "Superbowl Central" (the NFL theme and entertainment complex) and with the Pro Bowl also here. Super Bowl Media Day has been moved to Downtown Phoenix (Talking Stick Resort Arena nee U S Airways Arena), instead of the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale. I think it's due to them opening up the event to the public (for a fee of course) and the re-sod and painting for the field for the Super Bowl!

I usually do some concepts, but your work is such top notch, I don't need to do them!

With that said, this will be the first Super Bowl, with the boring generic Super Bowl logo on grass.

I wasn't aware of your thread, but I consider myself to still be new here, so you'll have to cut me some slack. But I'm interested to see how they execute the logo on grass. They did a good job for Super Bowl XLII with the logos. I'm also interested in seeing what they do for the pro bowl, and if they will remove that paint somehow, paint over that, or re-sod.

I like the Colts/Packers one the best of the four combinations. I hope to at least document some of the field with some pics, (I put in for a media credential to take photos of the field when it is being installed, and the UofP facebook feed will also so some of the painting and layout as SB week moves on). as I am volunteering for the SUper Bowl here in Phoenix. I know this most likely is the template for the field, but one can hope they will add a bit more color!

I guess you can be the source of inside information, which would be great, and answer some of my questions above. It should be awesome getting to work so closely to the event, and hopefully you get the media pass. And I'll second more color.

Oops sorry I didn't see this thread. As I bumped the old jc thread from last year.

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!! LOL. These endzones stink. Damn all these damn blue teams.

Rooting for a NE/GB game. Maybe the NE wordmark can be outlined in red?? Yeah, right.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO blue teams!!!!

Yeah, its not going to be very exciting, but I'm still hoping they surprise us. Maybe they'll outline the numbers or some yard lines, or better yet completely change the field for the better. Worst case the field template gets worse, like the national championship field did for NCAA. Can't say I was a fan of the black endzones, and the field was just so dull.

Thanks. I am up for one of the credentials, but they are hard to come by. I do know they re-sodded the field (actual playing area, not outside the 3yd border) for the Fiesta Bowl. For the last superbowl (XLII) they re-sodded over the top of the previous field. This time with just one week between the Pro-Bowl They might just re-do the entire field! I will find out more some time tis week. I plan to tour the stadium tomorrow, and will ask a couple of people I know.

I like the Colts/Packers one the best of the four combinations. I hope to at least document some of the field with some pics, (I put in for a media credential to take photos of the field when it is being installed, and the UofP facebook feed will also so some of the painting and layout as SB week moves on). as I am volunteering for the SUper Bowl here in Phoenix. I know this most likely is the template for the field, but one can hope they will add a bit more color!

Turns out I have some problems with my template. They are small problems so I'm not sure what I am going to do with all the fields I have made here. I guess I should explain what they are, so the first thing is my hashes were 20 inches tall, and they should be 24 inches. The next thing was the numbers. First, they were too tall, and second they were too close to the yard lines (was 4 inches away, should be 12 inches away). I also had to modify the arrows by the numbers a bit as well.

I found these problems out when making the actual fields for each team when looking up the field dimensions for college while doing Pittsburgh's field, and then went to check if my NFL fields were accurate.

Either way I'll post the old and new so you can see the difference.

This is Super Bowl XLVIII with the old template at MetLife

Here is the Giants current field at MetLife with the new template, so you can compare.

So now I'm not sure if I should go back and redo every single field and just change the picture on each post, or just keep what I have now.

Do you need me to help? I have full sized files on my main computer at home. I was noticing the difference while I was working on a template for the Pontiac Silverdome in its USFL livery with the Michigan Panthers. They used the same layouts except the main yardlines extended all the way to the sideline. It was 1983 to 1986 ;-)

Super Bowl XLVIII: February 2, 2014 - MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Seattle Seahawks - 43 Denver Broncos - 8

< Super Bowl XLVII First Post Website Super Bowl XLIX >

Mentioned this at the time but I actually think making the Endzone's navy blue for both teams was a good idea. For starters... the teams wore white and orange... so the endzone's contrasted both teams as an alternate color ..White/Navy and orange/navy. Also -- while I love the color orange it can be VERY clashy - so if there was an iconic photo of a seahawk catching a game-winning touchdown you didn't really want a 50-50 chance of that photo being on a bright orange background as a seahawks fan. Navy worked for both team's in that instance.

I'm not sure why they left the NFC logo navy for the seahawks or why its on the wrong side... maybe it was a style choice because then both conference logos are on the near-side of the TV and the team logos are on the far side. That doesn't explain why its navy though

HOWEVER there is precendent because the Giants endzone at Metlife usues the Giants blue for the NFC logo and also the NFL shield at midfleld is in Giants Blue and Red not the NFL colors.

Hard to tell. But I still vote for lazyness, with a touch of the weather combined. The NFL got lucky, if that storm had come in 18 hours eariler the game would have looked like it was being played at Mile high rather than New jersey. This is why i believe the field was so bland. Unsure the field would even be visable with a possible storm aproaching. The NFL went with "No Frills" on the field markings.

No problem. I will see what photos I can get when the field will be painted. I have put in to be a part of the set up crew for the stadium. Wont know about that till late December.

This was created by user andycumbee19. Here is the thread for proof.

Hey! Good to see I'm still thought of around here!

Dont think you will ever be forgotten. Your template was the basis for my orginal ones. And now even more detailed diagrams have been created!

It looks like that Buccaneers were using more a block style wordmark in 1979 in their end zone like what is in this photo. It is similar to what was in the end zone during their 1979 playoff game with the Rams.

http://www.tampapix.com/tampastadium.htm

Ah, the old "Sombrero" Man some the stadium that no longer exist. How time flys!

I love it! Would be a real blast to see such a colorful field celebrating the 50th anniversary. But the N.F.L stands for No Fun League these days, as the corporate mentality will most likely prevent this beauty of a field to ever be used :-(

This was a great series to follow. Too bad we'd have to wait until February to see another field. Perhaps in the meantime, you could do an NFL International Series Field Database. Just an idea.

I'm not sure about the international series, but I've planned to do Super Bowl alternate fields with the conference championship losers, and I've actually got 27 of the 48 fields done to this point, and after that I wanted to do the current fields and playoff fields because I need them for my simulation.

if the browns was one of the team and they did the helmet logo for them, I wonder if they would use a helmet logo for the other

I would think they wouldn't because they would want to keep consistent with the past years games and it would be too much work for them to have to paint two helmets.

On another note, here is what I would like the Super Bowl XLIX field to look like given the current logos. This field might look familiar because its close to what I had in another thread a while back. Its been pointed out to me before that this field can't happen because by rule the NFL logo needs to be at midfield, but I always thought these new templated logos were made for midfield.

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I think this will be how SB 50 will be more then SB XLIX. I like the idea of the Super Bowl logo in the center of the field. And NFL shields eithe at the 30 yd line, or in the end zones!