Favorite field surface in football

[The Czech Republic]

In baseball news, if I'm not mistaken, the entire National League is playing on natural grass and dirt. Hooray!

[Ced]

What exactly is Fieldturf made out of? Rubbery grass and fake dirt?

Essentially, yes. Fake grass, ground rubber and sand, I think.

 

Gotta say natural grass or FieldTurf. Carpet fields suck with the exception of maybe Boise State's SmurfTurf, and I'm only saying that for the color.

[Kaertos]

From the fieldturf.com website:

 

FieldTurf is dramatically different from traditional synthetic turf. The most striking difference is immediately obvious. Instead of a dense, abrasive rug, FieldTurf’s fiber surface is soft, silky - like new blades of grass in a spring meadow. Players can slide, tackle and tumble on FieldTurf’s unique blend of specially treated Polyethylene fibers without fear of abrasions. Rug burns are a thing of the past. The old hatred of “turf” - voiced so loudly by players, trainers, coaches, the media, even parents and doctors - simply vanishes, a distant memory from the rough “carpet age.”

 

But FieldTurf is much more than just the absence of abrasions. Unlike traditional turf, FieldTurf does not rely on an underlying shock pad for safety, resilience and player comfort. Rather, like its natural grass cousin, FieldTurf’s grass fibers are surrounded and stabilized by a special blend of “synthetic earth” - FieldTurf’s patented mixture of smooth, rounded silica sand, rubber granules, and NIKE GRIND made of re-ground athletic shoe material.

 

The rubber granules are a key component. Tire rubber is cryogenically frozen, shattered into smooth, clean, rounded particles, sized and shaped to stay “in suspension” with the sand, which is of a similar size, shape and weight. The sand and rubber are precision layered to guarantee uniformity, with an installation process that is also patented.

 

The result: A stable, resilient, uniform, shock-absorbing surface. FieldTurf is the original and only system emulating natural grass, ideal not only for athletes at the elite level but for everyday activities of active, competitive young people.

[The Czech Republic]

I think I'll get some for my yard!

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

The most annoying part of FieldTurf is all the little rubber pellets that you get all over you when you fall, haha.