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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Hall, Ron |
Author Affiliation: | Editor-in-Chief, Athletic Turf |
Title: | What makes this field so super?: George Toma and a hand-picked crew started preparing the overseeded bermudagrass game field months before the players arrived in Tampa for Super Bowl XXXV |
Section: | Construction Other records with the "Construction" Section
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Source: | Athletic Turf: Maintenance & Technology. Vol. 4, No. 1, January/February 2001, p. 20-21. |
Publishing Information: | Cleveland, OH: Advanstar Communications, Inc. |
# of Pages: | 2 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Sports turf; Game preparation; Football fields; Turfgrass establishment; Facility profile; Artificial turf; Turf; Aves; Bird control; Seeding
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Facility Names: | Raymond James Stadium, in Tampa, Florida |
Abstract/Contents: | Discusses the preparation of the overseeded bermudagrass field for Super Bowl XXXV by George Toma who has been working for the GN-1 bemudagrass field at the Greg Norman Turf Company, Avon Park, FL. Describes the Motz Group that prepares the hybrid bermudagrass growth into sand over a layer of nylon/jute fiber, and installed the Super Bowl playing surface about 70,000 sq. ft. of big-roll sod in two days. Discusses several reasons for installing a hybrid field for football: you can move and install sod grown without it breaking up; it needs the extra stability of the synthetic material; affected by divoting or the disintegration of the sod grown on sand; sharing the field during a season. Also, discusses Toma's attention to practice fields for the NFC and AFC champions. |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | Includes sidebar, "Sorry fellas, no free meals", p. 20 Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Hall, R. 2001. What makes this field so super?: George Toma and a hand-picked crew started preparing the overseeded bermudagrass game field months before the players arrived in Tampa for Super Bowl XXXV. Athlet. Turf Maint. Technol. 4(1):p. 20-21. |
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