New Stadium will have a grass field per Mort

[Nextmanup]

1 hour ago, Mark92 said:

I'm a golf course superintendent in Vermont.  I imagine they will do exactly what the Packers did.  It will be a heated sand base that will be fiber threads all through it to keep the sand layer together.  They will have also have larger grow lights that help with the lack of sun hours during the winter months.  It will be a full time job to keep that grass looking great.  Would love to be part of that team.  

I don't know the technicalities, but I can only assume it WOULD be a full time job to keep grass growing in Orchard Park, NY, especially around this time of year.

 

🤣

 

I have to assume grass is much better for the health of everyone playing, so I support the idea, even if it turns into a dirt/mud pit at times.

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Imagine building a new house without a roof.

[ddaryl]

2 hours ago, Draconator said:

New York State just passed a new law. Exactly what kind of grass are we talking about?

 

50% Kentucky Blue Grass, and 50% Sinsemilia

[Dablitzkrieg]

3 hours ago, Logic said:

Here’s the Tweet:

 

 

It's true.  This man has no Dick

3 hours ago, Motorin' said:

 

There's some really innovative things being done in England. 10% synthetic fibers being woven into grass fields. Heating under the field with drainage to suck the water out. Grow lights so the field is lit up at night and allows the grass to grow overnight. Wind shields on the open air stadium that keeps the wind off the field...

We dont speak of England today, New or old 

[Draconator]

3 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:

We dont speak of England today, New or old 

Old England is acceptable. They have good ideas and I want the US to be under the Queen's rule again. 

 

I'm also wonderfully buzzed. Go Bills!

[WhoTom]

2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

1.  Build dome.

2.  Install grow lights.

3.  Bills and natural grass 5 months.

4.  NYS controlled grow op 7 months.

🤔

 

I'm guessing you wrote that tongue-in-cheek, but it's really a great idea! Could offset some of the costs.

 

[Nextmanup]

They keep showing nice shots of the inside of Paul Brown Stadium and it looks small and intimate compared to Rich Stadium.

 

Turns out it holds 65,535, so it is a bit smaller, but still pretty big.

 

3 tiers on the sides instead of 2.   

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

1 minute ago, WhoTom said:

 

I'm guessing you wrote that tongue-in-cheek, but it's really a great idea! Could offset some of the costs.

 

Mostly wry, but it is impressive the advances that have been made regarding optimum growth under specific light frequencies.

[nucci]

45 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Imagine building a new house without a roof.

do people live in a stadium?

[WhoTom]

1 minute ago, nucci said:

do people live in a stadium?

 

This guy:

 

 

And it's not a dome.

[pigpen65]

Grass would be awesome. Current turf ***** sucks

[Saxum]

11 minutes ago, nucci said:

do people live in a stadium?

 

Well in hurricane belts they have used stadiums for emergency shelters (not to be confused with Stadium Shelter which is a non-profit organization).

For the cost of some PSL's I think housing should come with the PSLs.

[wppete]

Love it!

[Mr. WEO]

4 hours ago, Doc said:

When we toured Allegiant Stadium, they said that they asked the Cardinals what they would do differently with their rolled-in grass field.  The Cardinals said they would have raised it up 3 feet off the ground so you can get under it easily.

 

But a turf field and a roof would make more sense if they're worried about the turf freezing.  And I'm sure doing all that adds a lot more to the cost.

it would be easier to put radiant heating under turf than to try and grow grass in Buffalo in January with warming pipes…

[1ManRaid]

4 hours ago, Motorin' said:

 

Grow lights baby. 

 

That's.....actually a cool idea.  Instead of a "retractable" field like Arizona, some sort of deployable array of LED grow lights.  Line the roof with solar panels.

[cale]

5 hours ago, Warcodered said:

Will it have a grass roof?

No. But Nashville's Music City Convention Center does...

https://www.greenroofs.com/2019/02/04/nashville-music-city-center/

[Kellyhero68]

What kind of Grass? LOL

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

This isn't news; it's been known for weeks.

[MAJBobby]

GB and KC have hybrid grass from what I am tracking. 

Yep SisGrass like soccer pitches 

 

https://www.packers.com/news/new-turf-ready-to-welcome-packers-into-2018-season

[MAJBobby]

https://www.eurosportsturf.com/sis-grass/?lang=en