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I touched it... ;-)

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The first two photos are of giant bags of SOMETHING with a Nike Grind label on them... here's the skinny.

For many years, Nike has worked closely with FieldTurf, a leading innovator of synthetic turf, to make some of the best athletic surfaces in the world. FieldTurf's high-performance synthetic turf incorporates Nike Grind material recycled from footwear manufacturing to help elite athletes and active kids to play their best game.

http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jht ... bcat=grind
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ZiggyZoomba wrote:The first two photos are of giant bags of SOMETHING with a Nike Grind label on them... here's the skinny.

For many years, Nike has worked closely with FieldTurf, a leading innovator of synthetic turf, to make some of the best athletic surfaces in the world. FieldTurf's high-performance synthetic turf incorporates Nike Grind material recycled from footwear manufacturing to help elite athletes and active kids to play their best game.

http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jht ... bcat=grind
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Any problems with deteriorating eyesight, ZZ?
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Grant, thank you so much for these pictures. Good God can I not wait for the first home game!

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i thought we were getting the same stuff as OU, and thats not it. But i like this better :)
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moneymaker02 wrote:i thought we were getting the same stuff as OU, and thats not it. But i like this better :)
It's from the same company, not sure if that means same turf.
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h2oville rocket wrote:Any problems with deteriorating eyesight, ZZ?
Just some strange synthetic green hairs growing on my palm....
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What's this about no cost maintenance? They haven't even planted it and it looks like it needs cutting already!
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Bleeding Orange wrote:Grant, thank you so much for these pictures. Good God can I not wait for the first home game!

GO FALCONS!!!!!!
You aren't kidding, BO!
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Falconfreak90 wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:Grant, thank you so much for these pictures. Good God can I not wait for the first home game!

GO FALCONS!!!!!!
You aren't kidding, BO!
These are great. We keep watching progress every morning and evening. As soon as it is done I promised my son we would visit BG to walk on it. I hope I don't get us both arrested. Mother won't be happy.
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Zom wrote:What's this about no cost maintenance? They haven't even planted it and it looks like it needs cutting already!
The bottom bit of it will be surrounded by "dirt" (that nike shoegrind) Only the top half or so will be visible.
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ZiggyZoomba wrote:Image

http://picasaweb.google.com/pepperguy/Doyt71107

A GORGEOUS evening in BG!!!
I wasn't real obvious about the link... but if you click the picasaweb link above, there's a dozen or so more photos of the Doyt and the gorgeous evening at DLP Stadium last night. Check them all out if you haven't!
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Falcon30 wrote:
Zom wrote:What's this about no cost maintenance? They haven't even planted it and it looks like it needs cutting already!
The bottom bit of it will be surrounded by "dirt" (that nike shoegrind) Only the top half or so will be visible.
Wait - I changed my mind...

...that is the surface for the Toledo game.
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Grant...you have beautiful hands..have you considered a career in hand modeling?
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