House Park now has Field Turf

[Beau Vine]

...and I'm a little sad. What's next, astroturf at Wrigley Field?

One of the greatest games I've ever seen at any level was an absolute mud bowl at House Park a few years ago. It had rained hard all week and rained lightly throughout the whole game. Austin High was mainly a passing team, but they found it easier to run. San Marcos almost never passed out of their Wing-T, but they busted a couple of long TD passes. Everyone was so muddy it was sometimes hard to who was on what team. Tied at 21, San Marcos got the ball back with about 6:00 left in the game, drove down to about the Austin 20, converting a couple of 4th downs on the way, and called time with less than a minute left. Their kicker calmly walked out on the field in a clean uniform and drilled a FG to win it.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

Yeah, it'll be different. When they took up the old sod they let former players and alumni have squares of it to keep for their memories.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

The Disch will change in the next year or two...when the life of the existing turf runs out.

 

[texfight03]

I remember officiating a game there about 6 years ago and there were fire ant mounds on the goal line. Felt bad for the kids that fell in it.

 

[OzzieVirgil]

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[yelladawgdem]

Pics?

 

[wherzwaldo]

I thought the "grass" looked unusually green when I drove by about a week ago...

Doesn't make House Park any less of a dump. We hated going there for games.

 

[GHoward]

Do the players still wear cleats on Field Turf?

 

[Owlhorn]

The manufacturer's website looks plenty reputable.
The Link

Westlake's turf is from SRI, not exactly luxury, but more status quo. The "deluxe" makers FieldTurf and RealGrass

 

[TexLaw04]

FieldTurf or SafePlay (instead of inferior turf, like old-school AstroTurf) for football = OK in my book.

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[atxaggie07]

I have great memories from House Park. In 2001 we (Bowie) had a showdown with Austin High. Austin High was supposed to have this "new, amazing offense". They were supposed to be unstoppable. We ended the 1st half with a hail mary touchdown and my boy Justin returned an INT for 102 yards for a touchdown and we walked out of there with a 63-28 victory.

 

[LITNIN HORN]

Sorry TexLaw...they are going to replace the existing turf with the "new and improved" field turf we are discussing on this thread, unless they take a complete about face.

 

[TornJock]

It's not Field Turf...that would have been too expensive. AISD went with something like Pro Grass and wound up with roll widths of 4.7 yards instead of 5 yards. Same thing happened at Schertz Clemens & the replacement turf had to be rush shipped.
Would have made first downs easier to make