Colts' New Turf

[sj32]

I'm watching the Colts play on their new field turf. Markings are the same as they were on the old astroturf with one notable exception - the helmet at midfield now has a grey facemask.

[TBGKon]

ive got to admit, the colts new turf looks more like grass than any other indoor fieldturf

[sacker12]

Where are some photos of it?

[buckeyes1]

Try here, not the best but all I could find.

http://colts.com/sub.cfm?page=actionphotos

[sscrunner06]

Is it kind of like the stuff that the Saints put in the Superdome a couple years ago?

[sacker12]

If I'm not mistaken, the Saints put AstroPlay in the Superdome. That stuff was made by SRI Sports, who is no longer in business anymore.

[vini]

it does look great because it is field turf. the seahawks was the best because theirs was fielsd turf. the ravens use something called real play which is horrible . i believe the saints have switched a couple of times. the bills have astro play it looks like crap when it is real sunny it looks way too fake. detroit uses field turf and it looks great. i'm not sure what the bengals use? what did the rams use it did'nt look bad at all. the vikings turf looks all kinds of ugly because they are sharing it with the twins. i've heard that they use a different type of that turf for baseball a harder thinner surface. something about the vikings turf... the color looks really fake but that could from the lighting in the metrodome. it even makes their color purple look weird. anyways my point is field turf is the only way to go it looks the most real and gives you the best playing surface of any of the articial turfs

[WSU151]

the bills have astro play it looks like crap when it is real sunny it looks way too fake.

Huh. I always thought the Bills' turf looked great. The worst FieldTurf/AstroPlay I've ever seen was the old Eagles turf that was used at the Vet the last couple years of existance. Talk about fake-looking...

[vini]

oh yes the eagles was the worst ever i have to agree with you on that one.

[The_Admiral]

If you play outdoors, play on grass. Follow baseball. Reject turf.

[vini]

i agree if you can have grass in new england and phili you can have in anywhere

[sacker12]

the bills have astro play it looks like crap when it is real sunny it looks way too fake.

Huh. I always thought the Bills' turf looked great. The worst FieldTurf/AstroPlay I've ever seen was the old Eagles turf that was used at the Vet the last couple years of existance. Talk about fake-looking...

That was NexTurf, another SRI product. I think that stuff was half natural grass, half synthetic grass.

[PackerBadger]

NexTurf, or Nexturf, or whatever is another "artificial grass" surface (as opposed to artificial turf, or paint-the-asphalt-green). The hybrid surface is DD GrassMaster, which is grass with plastic blades put into it (see HERE) to make it, they hope, stand up better. That's being used now at Invesco Field at Mile High. There was also another surface that was supposed to use a screen through which the grass was supposed to grow, and that too was supposed to make the grass hold up better. But I don't think that's used anymore.

Go figure -- you can grow grass in New England, and Philly, and Pittsburgh, and GREEN BAY, but not in Cincinnati or Baltimore. Or Madison.

[sacker12]

Thanks for clearing that up. It has been a few years since I read up on the subject.

[therookiesensation]

i just think it'll be odd watching that colts offense go to work on that stuff instead of the astroturf.

[Camden Crazy]

The Rams also put this type of field turf in the Edward Jones Dome this offseason.

[WSU151]

The Rams also put this type of field turf in the Edward Jones Dome this offseason.

Same design as years past, or have they changed it up?

[sp0rtsguy13]

Try here, not the best but all I could find.

http://colts.com/sub.cfm?page=actionphotos

If I'm not mistaken, those pictures are of the tokyo dome. If you look at the last picture on the first page, in the top left hand corner you can see it says

YO DOME. You can also see many Japanese advertisments in the background.

[Discrim]

watched a bit of the Bears-Rams game, and the Rams' endzones are no longer blue...I didn't get a real good look at the endzone, but IIRC it simply has the Rams wordmark by itself now.

[thegame4219]

the first 5 rows are of the bills game (the colts wore white in japan and blue at home)