OT: NFL

[Ram040506]

Your school field doesn’t have an NFL team and a D1 university sharing it for a season then have the WPIAL come in and destroy it for their title games. The Stillers need to evict the WPIAL…it’s ridiculous to hold district title games in a 65000 seat stadium.

The Iggles share with Temple but no high school. They haven’t even had the Army/Navy game to deal either for a few years.

Yea but they do share it with JV football, mens soccer, womens soccer (and JV for both), lacrosse Men's/womens with JV, etc... It gets more use that the steelers field for just games.

There is no excuse for an NFL franchise with unlimited resources, can't keep the playing surface in good order.

[IUPNation]

There is no excuse for any NFL team to have a bad grass playing surface. My old high school has a pristine bermuda grass field in Maryland. It was better than nearly any surface I played on except for Virginia Union in college. If my public high school in Maryland can do it, the Steelers can figure it out.

Your school field doesn’t have an NFL team and a D1 university sharing it for a season then have the WPIAL come in and destroy it for their title games. The Stillers need to evict the WPIAL…it’s ridiculous to hold district title games in a 65000 seat stadium.

The Iggles share with Temple but no high school. They haven’t even had the Army/Navy game to deal either for a few years.

[Ram040506]

Still looks better than the Yinzers field….but the Iggles also now the better franchise with better ownership.

There is no excuse for any NFL team to have a bad grass playing surface. My old high school has a pristine bermuda grass field in Maryland. It was better than nearly any surface I played on except for Virginia Union in college. If my public high school in Maryland can do it, the Steelers can figure it out.

[IUPNation]

They paint it.

Still looks better than the Yinzers field….but the Iggles also now the better franchise with better ownership.

[Ram040506]

The Iggles field holds up well into January…

They paint it.

[IUPNation]

Wait, isn't Bermuda grass a seasonal grass that goes dormant and turns yellow in the cold months?

The Iggles field holds up well into January…

[Fightingscot82]

Wait, isn't Bermuda grass a seasonal grass that goes dormant and turns yellow in the cold months?

[IUPNation]

The Goat Pasture at Areyousure Stadium has been replaced. Again.

“Acrisure Stadium had the worst field in the entire NFL last season, an F minus, dead last in the whole league in the way players actually graded it, and Aaron Rodgers came out after getting stomped on it in Week 6 against the Browns and called it borderline unplayable.

Guys around the league were saying it was too sandy, too slippery, too gooey, and that surface was getting resodded two or three times a season because it wasn't just hosting Steelers games, Pitt was playing on it, high schools were playing on it, everybody in the city was tearing it up.

Art Rooney heard the grade and said the field was getting fixed, and this week Precision Turf actually laid down a brand new Tahoma 31 Bermuda grass, the same stuff they run at Soldier Field and Lincoln Financial Field, planted in July so the roots have time to take before the season starts.

Good. That's what a franchise with any pride does when its own players call the field an embarrassment.

Then Rooney turns around and says if the grass doesn't hold up they'll just go TURF.

Who signs off on that conversation, we just spent all this money and effort growing real grass back and the backup plan is plastic the second it has one bad month.

Fix the grass, water it right, resod it as many times as it takes, but do not turn Acrisure into another rubber pellet parking lot because it was easier.

Pittsburgh football was not built on plastic pellets and it should not start now.”

[iupgroundhog]

Isn’t he like 45 now?

Gotta give him credit for having such a long career.

[iupgroundhog]

Isn’t he like 45 now?

No. He's only 40.

[IUPNation]

Putting in some content for this slow off-season. Former Edinboro all-everything QB Trevor Harris signed a one-year contract to return to the champion Saskatchewan Rough Riders. Here's his pay breakdown:

Base Salary: $220,000 ($159k USD)
Signing Bonus: $190,000 ($137k USD)
Media Appearances: $25,000 ($18k USD)
Housing Allowance: $15,300 ($11k USD)
Travel Allowance: $5,000 ($3.7k USD)
Performance Incentives: $54,000 ($39k USD)

Pretty solid change - and he reportedly took less to free up cap space.

Isn’t he like 45 now?

[Fightingscot82]

Putting in some content for this slow off-season. Former Edinboro all-everything QB Trevor Harris signed a one-year contract to return to the champion Saskatchewan Rough Riders. Here's his pay breakdown:

Base Salary: $220,000 ($159k USD)
Signing Bonus: $190,000 ($137k USD)
Media Appearances: $25,000 ($18k USD)
Housing Allowance: $15,300 ($11k USD)
Travel Allowance: $5,000 ($3.7k USD)
Performance Incentives: $54,000 ($39k USD)

Pretty solid change - and he reportedly took less to free up cap space.

[IUPNation]

Why do you think attendance was so low?

It didn't seem low...the parking lots that I passed going to and from work were at capacity and the tour bus shuttles were all over the place......

[Fightingscot82]

So at so at the PGA championship in Newtown Square, every time Cowturds fan Scottie Scheffler finishes a hole…the natives either do an Eagles chant or yell Go Birds at him.

When in Delco…

Aronimink is up the road from my office and they were using our office campus as a parking lot for fans..shuttle buses errywhere…

Why do you think attendance was so low?

[IUPNation]

So at so at the PGA championship in Newtown Square, every time Cowturds fan Scottie Scheffler finishes a hole…the natives either do an Eagles chant or yell Go Birds at him.

When in Delco…

Aronimink is up the road from my office and they were using our office campus as a parking lot for fans..shuttle buses errywhere…