Tough Stuff Every Saturday college football players line up and dig their cleates and hands into the playing surface. Some playing fields are hard while others are soft, some are bone dry while others are pure mud. There have been some great advances in college football over the years but I think one of the greatest inventions is the creation of Field Turf. Once one look at the advantages of Field Turf over grass it …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…when the heat comes grass may have that very humid feeling when you are on it, but when you stand on astroturf it is much hotter due to the fact that all astroturf consists of a thin layer of a layer of plastic needles on top of cement. That cement under astroturf can also cause a lot of injuries that grass would not happen on grass for the near sake that grass absorbs the shock