MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:A lot of us upper midwestern folk feel that football is great in any environment, but is meant to be played in the motherfucking cold.
A lot of us upper leftern folk believe football is suppopsed to be played in the soggy mud.
Which the era of the mud is dying quickly. I believe the three muddy D1 schools are all playing on artificial turf now... pretty sure the Fuskies do, too. From a practical standpoint, there's no comparison. While in the early season, grass would the easy and proper (The Mid/Upper Willamette Valley, where both Oregon schools are, is the grass seed capital of the world, and for good reason -- grass grows at an amazing clip in the valley) -- the field would be nice, and it could be repaired to perfection in less than a week. But by late season, all of a sudden it's quicksand, and daylight hours start diminishing quickly, what light there is through the clouds. "Back In The Day," the fields could get pretty ugly by late November.
Most of the large U&L high schools have gone to carpet, as well. It's definitely taken something away from "U&L Style" football. In days past, it could be pretty difficult to run the ball. The short pass route and screens were the order of the day in the sloppy-muddy. A team had to have absolute perfection between OL and RBs to pull off any sort of running game.
Good old days. Things change.
But I like that Green Bay and Chicago still play their NFL games outside, like it's supposed to be.
