Congrats!

[PGY Tiercel]

after all Toledo is better than BG in every way.

Now you are just being dumb.

Attack the message, not the messenger. Is that not the "motto" around here?

Uh, to think, the whole time I thought it was "Ignore the post, kick the poster in the balls".

[TJRocket]

after all Toledo is better than BG in every way.

Now you are just being dumb.

Attack the message, not the messenger. Is that not the "motto" around here?

Go cry somewhere else. Next time I will include an emoticon

Take it easy my bitter feathered friend. No crying going on over here, just having some fun with you guys.

[rocketfootball]

There are a lot of misconceptions in this thread.

It is true that the old astroturf stuff was hard and there were a lot of serious injuries because of it. However, the stuff that is used today is much more technically advanced and cuts down on injuries.

There the field turf and nexturf stuff that is used today feels and looks a lot like grass. It is nothing like the old artificial surfaces.


NeXturf does tend to get slippery in the rain, but two things - NeXturf is not really being used anwhere anymore like it was 5 years ago. Only UT and WMU still have it. 2nd, grass fields are much worse in the rain because they get muddy which makes it slippery and even a bit bumpy in places.


Field Turf does not get that slippery in the rain, but it still does a little. When it rains it doesn't matter what surface you have, it is going to be somewhat slippery.


Michigan and Michigan State did switch to artificial surfaces. Michigan finally did because their grass field kept getting chewed up with the great weather we have in the MidWest and they finally had enough of it.

Even though Ohio State plays on PAT, which a a type of natural grass playing surface with a state of the art built in drainage system that most natural grass stadiums do not have, they did have an artificial surface for 20 years before this surface.

There is a reason that the large majority of college stadiums are using artificial surfaces.

[kdog27]

grass fields are much worse in the rain because they get muddy which makes it slippery and even a bit bumpy in places.

Just my opinion but I have always liked games played in the mud. That's the fun of football, varied conditions and atmospheres.

[Schadenfreude]

I guess Rocket fans are afraid to get dirty.

How else can we explain their obsession with not playing on grass -- the surface given to us by God for playing football?

Just as God gave us football, God also gave us grass on which to play football.

It is true that, sometimes, when God gives us rain to nourish our crops, the surface of a football field gets muddy.

But this is also as God intended, for God is not a girly man.

And, because He loves us so, grass that gets torn up in the fall grows back in the spring -- just in time for another season of God's sport.

This is the miracle of life, the miracle of football, the sport God gave us.

Woe to the secularists in Toledo or Ann Arbor or Oxford who would tamper with it.

[Falconfreak90]

I guess Rocket fans are afraid to get dirty.

How else can we explain their obsession with not playing on grass -- the surface given to us by God for playing football?

Just as God gave us football, God also gave us grass on which to play football.

It is true that, sometimes, when God gives us rain to nourish our crops, the surface of a football field gets muddy.

But this is also as God intended, for God is not a girly man.

And, because He loves us so, grass that gets torn up in the fall grows back in the spring -- just in time for another season of God's sport.

This is the miracle of life, the miracle of football, the sport God gave us.

Woe to the secularists in Toledo or Ann Arbor or Oxford who would tamper with it.

That was quite a post, SF>

[factman]

rocketfootball-
You might want to have a conversation with your athletic trainer for football, because I have heard him say that your turf is not in good shape, and he has issues with it as far as injuries go. Just a heads up!

[1987alum]

I guess Rocket fans are afraid to get dirty.

How else can we explain their obsession with not playing on grass -- the surface given to us by God for playing football?

Just as God gave us football, God also gave us grass on which to play football.

It is true that, sometimes, when God gives us rain to nourish our crops, the surface of a football field gets muddy.

But this is also as God intended, for God is not a girly man.

And, because He loves us so, grass that gets torn up in the fall grows back in the spring -- just in time for another season of God's sport.

This is the miracle of life, the miracle of football, the sport God gave us.

Woe to the secularists in Toledo or Ann Arbor or Oxford who would tamper with it.

[h2oville rocket]

Only in the bg-UT rivalry could a thread start with a guy congratulating the other school's team on a great effort and end with the same guy being called a dildo. We're just a classy bunch of guys, eh?

[TG1996]

Only in the bg-UT rivalry could a thread start with a guy congratulating the other school's team on a great effort and end with the same guy being called a dildo. We're just a classy bunch of guys, eh?

The classiest, you dildo.

[Bleeding Orange]

Yeah, I just happened upon this thread again for the first time in about four days, and I kept asking myself as I read it "what happened?" Everyone was playing nice and then someone started throwing legos and pudding, and now we have three pages of namecalling.

Phew. I thought there was something wrong!

[Flipper]

I've said it before and I'll say it now, complaining about playing football on grass is the top of a slippery slope that bottoms out in a domed stadium named after a bank.

[Schadenfreude]

I've said it before and I'll say it now, complaining about playing football on grass is the top of a slippery slope that bottoms out in a domed stadium named after a bank.

:ZZZZing:

[truth]

when i used to play.. the more rain the better. bring the rain.. it is the great equalizer. makes for more interesting football games.

[Tricky_Falcon]

Talk about envy geez how many threads about BG are going to be on the Toledo board? The only time people bring up TU on this board is when one of their fans starts a thread.