sj32 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ive got to admit, the colts new turf looks more like grass than any other indoor fieldturf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacker12 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Where are some photos of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyes1 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Try here, not the best but all I could find.http://colts.com/sub.cfm?page=actionphotos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sscrunner06 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Is it kind of like the stuff that the Saints put in the Superdome a couple years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacker12 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vini Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vini Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 oh yes the eagles was the worst ever i have to agree with you on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the admiral Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 If you play outdoors, play on grass. Follow baseball. Reject turf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vini Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 i agree if you can have grass in new england and phili you can have in anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacker12 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PackerBadger Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacker12 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Thanks for clearing that up. It has been a few years since I read up on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therookiesensation Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 i just think it'll be odd watching that colts offense go to work on that stuff instead of the astroturf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Crazy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 The Rams also put this type of field turf in the Edward Jones Dome this offseason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSU151 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp0rtsguy13 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discrim Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegame4219 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 the first 5 rows are of the bills game (the colts wore white in japan and blue at home) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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