The playing surface at Soldier Field for the Bears-Rams game Sunday should be considerably better than it was a week and a half ago, as the entire field is being re-sodded.
The four-day re-sodding project is scheduled to be completed this afternoon. The sod has been growing in Sugar Grove and was trucked into Soldier Field over the weekend.
The cost of the resodding is approximately $250,000, which is paid by the Chicago Park District.
This is the first resodding of the field since the entire field was resodded after the U2 concerts and before the Bears' home opener. In some years, only the center of the field is resodded in-between complete resods.
Some of the Bears and Eagles players had problems with their footing in their game Nov. 22 and complained about it afterward. Divots of turf kept coming up as players dug in their cleats. It is not uncommon for grass fields in northern locales to start to come apart now that the growing season has ended. Other NFL fields have had similar issues.
The Bears have three home games left. After they play the Rams, they will host the Packers on Dec. 13 and the Vikings on Dec. 28.
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Please, keep to the point.
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It absolutely not agree
Can we get a new team to play on that new grass? Forget the fricking grass. Get a new Oline,a new head coach that has a clue,and a new Dline....
The new grass being installed at Soldier Field is called Goose Down Feather Grass it is supposed to help prevent injuries to the players...Rumored that Jay Cutler is spending his own money for this project...
Mr. Streich- you sure wrote a lot to say absolutely nothing. The Bears have had problems with the playing surface ever since moving to the place in 1970. During the last game, you could see the chunks coming up. Are you another one of those conspiracy nuts that sees a plot behind every story?
If true, then the Cutler trade was even dumber than most people thought it was.
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No it wasn't. You have to start somewhere. QB is a good place to start.
Get rid of the damn grass once and for all!
This is the oldest trick in the book--altering the playing surface.
I played football and basketball for a small high school in southern IL--so small that our opponents would have to spot us a couple of players to complete our team of 11 players.
Our coach (he was also the assistant principal, math teacher, band leader and PE teacher), old one foot Neal had a brother that owned a pig farm. The day of every home night game, farmer Jim-Bob would come to our field and spread fresh hog manure under the visting teams grand stand and would flood the grass area around the visiting teams bench with the raunchiest, stinkiest liquid hog manure.
It proved to be an extremely effective means of placating our opponents. Most of them made it through the warm ups, but after returning to their bench, they instantly became asphyxiated with the most powerful pig stench imaginable. The coaches and players began to wander aimlessles around the field in a nightmarish trance, regurgitating and reeling in agony from the stench. (Their fans sought refuge in our home team stands. So, after the first game, we prepared a special section for them irrigated with the freshist manure in the county. Soon after, fans for our opponents would not even come to the games.)
As for us, we won all of our home games 4 straight years (no matter who and how good the opponent was) because our opponents either forfeitted after the first series, our were disqualified for getting repeated penalties for having too many men on the field--sometimes as many as 30 men on the field.
Our basketball coach hada brother that owned a service station. You should have seen what an oil-manure mix can do for even the best teams--most didn't even make it through the warm ups (or the rest of the year) on account of the multitude of ankle and leg sprain injuries.
That was high school, though.
It's a real pity, though that an NFL team should have to resort to such unprofessional antics to win a game.
Smoking new grass just may help.
The old stuff just didn't do it - it appeared they were halucinating and thinking they were a football team.
Virginia, are you sleeeeeepinnnnnnnnng?
WAKE UP VIRGINIA!
GOOD BYE PHILLIPS, ANGELO, LOVIE & TURNER!
Cowher or no other coach will help if Angelo and Phillips are involved.
Bears fans are better off smoking that grass than watching a game on it. Less headache and nausea that way.
THE BEARS HAVENT BEEN ANYTHING SINCE WALTER AND THE FRIDGE, BEFORE THAT IT WAS SAYERS AND PICKALO... FROM AN INDY FAN... WHAT ABOUT OUR COLTS TO ALL YOU INDY READERS...
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oh great so we can lose to the rams on it lol. id rather have a new coaching staff, so how about just fireing lovie smith and his gang of losers and hireing Bill cowher then get the new grass that sounds like a better plan
New coaches for the Rams game would do a lot more for the Bears then some new grass!
Though I'm not a big fan of it, Soldier Field needs to have Field Turf installed before next season. The Bears should demand it because they are tired of playing on the worst filed in the league.
Though I'm not a big fan of his, stop blaming Culter for this dismal season. It is the dismal defense and terrible offensive line that have caused this fiasco. I've said it for years, a QB is only as good as the time he gets to throw which equates to only being as good as his offensive line. Look at New Orleans. Drew Breese is having a great year because his line gets away with holding all the time and Breese has hours to throw the ball. It has been that way for years in the NFL. If the league feels like a team has marquee players, their offensive line gets away with a ton of holding penalties that are never called. It is called marketing the game and making big bucks for the league.
CAN I ALSO GET A NEW HEAD COACH, OC, DC, GENERAL MANAGER, AND PRESIDENT WITH THAT TURF ORDER?!!
In other news, Bears to increase ticket prices.
Urlacher is right, with your new turf you now go back to the running game. Trade Cutler back to Denver. We will give you a 6th rounder for him.
Can the Bears get a new team for the Rams game?
Ok, that oughta do it. Da Bears are back!!
why bother.
Headline should read "Soldier Field getting grass for Rams game" -- whatever that was on there before could hardly be called a real grass surface. That field's been a joke for years. Now it matches the team.