2025 Turf (2.0)

[Justasportsfan]

8 hours ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

You must have never played on Brownstowns grass field to not realize how much safer our turf field is 

I'm all for player safety..just wonder if opinions will change every decade or so..

[Muda69]

8 hours ago, Sparty said:

Go to bed earlier.  

What part of the word "teenager" do you not understand?

 

[Sparty]

4 hours ago, Muda69 said:

What part of the word "teenager" do you not understand?

 

I learned to adapt in Boy Scouts.  Thanks for the conversation. 

[Impartial_Observer]

On 6/21/2025 at 9:46 AM, btownqbcoach1 said:

You must have never played on Brownstowns grass field to not realize how much safer our turf field is 

Brownstown was far from the worst. Two within 25 minutes were worse. 

[Donnie Baker]

16 hours ago, Sparty said:

I learned to adapt in Boy Scouts.  Thanks for the conversation. 

Be prepared!

[Sparty]

11 minutes ago, Donnie Baker said:

Be prepared!

State Law!!!

[Donnie Baker]

On 6/21/2025 at 11:26 PM, Sparty said:

I learned to adapt in Boy Scouts.  Thanks for the conversation. 

Mudas prolly voted for chics in the Boy Scouts. I gotta go 

[Muda69]

On 6/23/2025 at 8:45 PM, Donnie Baker said:

Mudas prolly voted for chics in the Boy Scouts. I gotta go 

I had no such vote.  Did you?

As for females in the BSA, meh.   I'm generally ok with separate boys and girls troops, not so sure yet about combined or co-ed troops.  

[Muda69]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/business/artificial-turf-grass-sports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU8.Iafu.Q1sEkrNWXFl_

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Across the country, cities and towns are replacing grass fields with synthetic turf, a change that is driven by youth sports teams eager for more year-round playing spaces and the multibillion-dollar turf industry working to convince communities that plastic fields are better than natural ones.

Many local officials, at the urging of families involved in youth sports, say turf fields can easily be played on after it rains and don’t need to be mowed or reseeded.

But some residents, environmentalists and coaches are pushing back, claiming turf — which is made of plastic blades that mimic the look of grass and often sit on a layer of crumb rubber — is expensive to maintain because it must be replaced after several years, is vulnerable to flooding and exposes children to harmful chemicals and hotter temperatures.

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And a comment from a researcher after reading this article:

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I’m an atmospheric chemist that worked with a group investigating the toxicology of these fields.

These fields are horrendous for our health on multiple levels. For starters, tires are classified as biohazardous waste when whole and disposed of in very specific, regulated ways but when we shred them (and increase surface area by 100,000 times) they are totally unregulated. The increased surface area means more opportunities for the constituent parts of tires to enter our air, water, and bodies.

Our group found very high rates of hazardous compounds such as heavy metals (lead, cadmium, etc) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs; like formaldehyde, etc). We also found that tires degrade rapidly in the sun and on active playing surfaces, making smaller particulate that could enter our lungs. This particulate generally was in the first 3-4 ft (~1m) from the ground, meaning it’s in the breathing zone of young athletes with developing lungs.

The group I worked with also found that female soccer goalies that primarily play on turf fields have an abnormally high level of cancer. They believe this is due to increased exposure at the field surface (diving for balls, etc) and the endocrine disruption of many plasticizers/compounds found in tires.

This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to health impacts from tire crumb and turf fields. They’re really bad for us.

 

[Sparty]

5 hours ago, Muda69 said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/business/artificial-turf-grass-sports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU8.Iafu.Q1sEkrNWXFl_

And a comment from a researcher after reading this article:

 

We’ve gone round and round on things, but in all honesty, grass fields are the way to go.  

[btownqbcoach1]

11 hours ago, Sparty said:

We’ve gone round and round on things, but in all honesty, grass fields are the way to go.  

You never played a game at Brownstown pre turf then.  

[Muda69]

11 hours ago, Sparty said:

We’ve gone round and round on things, but in all honesty, grass fields are the way to go.  

<channel fb coaches/A.D.'s>  But, but grass is so expensive to maintain!  And the player's uniforms get dirty!  And not having a perfectly uniform playing surface is just hard to game plan against, one more awful variable we have to take into consideration. Horrible! </channel>

 

[Sparty]

57 minutes ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

You never played a game at Brownstown pre turf then.  

And?

[Daniel_Bragg]

I'll say one thing for turf: without it, the Hurricane Game in Sheridan wouldn't have happened last year. LOL

[btownqbcoach1]

On 7/29/2025 at 9:14 AM, Sparty said:

And?

? You wouldn't feel that way if you had

Spoke to Mater Dei HC, spoke to Silver Creeks, spoke to Clarksvilles... they all laughed at the assertion that grass even comes close to turf. 

[Sparty]

1 hour ago, btownqbcoach1 said:

? You wouldn't feel that way if you had

Spoke to Mater Dei HC, spoke to Silver Creeks, spoke to Clarksvilles... they all laughed at the assertion that grass even comes close to turf. 

You are assuming I didn’t play on parking lots before.  
 

And?