Our Endzones Suck

[Remo Gaggi]

To be clear, I was disliking this feature of the schedule not your post.

It is also not lost on me that while it was super hot we ended up with day games and as soon as the weather turns for the cool weather we have a night game. I know how we end up with various kickoff times, it just sucks and since I am a Cyclone fan I am damned well going to ***** about it!

Agree. Fall is my favorite time of year, and combined with Cyclone football is hard to beat. Maybe next year the schedule will align with the great weather. Also, I hope we get back to 7 home games

 

[Cyrealist]

Exactly. Look at the retro helmet in the uniforms, it says Ames for a reason. We were known by Ames back then.

Ames would have been a nice touch. Also, the font looks like the circus is in town.

 

[t-noah]

They also took extreme measures to try to make sure that TCF field didn't freeze rock hard. They had tarps covering the entire surface with heaters forcing hot air on it, but I think it might have done as much harm as good. As you know when you cover grass the regular respiration of the grass is trapped and traps moisture. As soon as that tarp was removed that moisture froze.

I was shopping for tarps a few days ago. Wound up getting what I needed, 11'x8', and a couple of smaller ones. Was noticing the prices on some of the really large ones, quite a bit more.

Imagine the size and thickness of the tarp above, to cover a field. Now imagine the cost of one of those!!

 

[VeloClone]

That was field turf, not natural grass, so respiration was not an issue. The problem was when the Vikings played there when the dome collapsed, there were no heating coils under the field, it was just frozen. When the Vikings played there waiting for their new stadium, they had new turf and heating coils installed under it.

You are right, my dumb mistake. But I do remember the heaters not doing the job and the field freezing as soon as they took the tarp off.

 

[cyclonez7]

No hot tubs in the endzone? C'mon Jamie

 

[shadow]

You wanna know what I hate?

Communists.

 

[Cloned4Life]

This guy is cooking

This looks awesome.

I agree with the original poster. We are wearing alternate uniforms. We put an awesome Trice logo at center field. Why on earth paint the end zone letters with a different shade of cardinal red with the yellow font border? It looks really odd and very much out of place. The field crew has painted the end zone letters different colors in the past (i.e. black/white during precious blackout uniform night games), why not do that here? What they did looks very out of place and lazy. How hard would it have been to do the lettering with same Trice logo red color with a white border to match?

 

[t-noah]

Obviously the person(s) who designed this field is(are) the same one(s) who designed our uniforms. Ha. OK but not great and not always color coordinated.

One step at a time. The Trice unis are a good step.

 

[cyclone82]

Why in gods green earth do our endzones suck so much? The midfield logo is wonderfully done, and we are stuck with these monstrosities.

U ARE DUMB!

 

[Clonefan94]

Obviously the person(s) who designed this field is(are) the same one(s) who designed our uniforms. Ha. OK but not great and not always color coordinated.

One step at a time. The Trice unis are a good step.

Maybe they are the same one(s) who did the Dallas Cowboys uniforms this year.. People love the Dallas Cowboys uniforms, when in reality they are a mess. Silver helmet with navy blue star. White jerseys with royal blue number and stripes. Then light blue pants with a dark blue stripe that doesn’t match the helmet or jersey.

 

[2speedy1]

Contrast the Bud Grant era Vikings of the 'frozen tundra' to the modern Green Bay Packers and their natural grass field. They work very hard to keep it alive during the winter, I'll bet, with the underground heating pipes, etc.

But yes, whenever possible, natural grass is the way to go. The difficulty and cost associated with keeping a natural grass field is undoubtedly why artificial turf is a thing.

Edit: And doesn't Green Bay also have the synthetic webing/plugs weaved into the natural grass, like we now have?

Greenbay has heated field plus a cover goes over it with grow lights and heat etc when not using field.

They also have the hybrid stitching we used. But places like GB have a lot more tech to keep their fields growing and in good shape than any College stadiums that I know of.

 

[CychiatricWard]

U ARE DUMB!

Don’t be a d ick.