🏈 OK, this is pretty cool. It's certainly NOT old school football field prep.

[TerryP]

 

[UAgrad93]

Yep! Old school was pulling a string, popping said string, and then burning that shit with diesel fuel before putting chalk down.

 

[TerryP]

Yep! Old school was pulling a string, popping said string, and then burning that shit with diesel fuel before putting chalk down.

Huntsville. 1972-maybe 73.

140 x 70 field planted. Hybrid bermuda in plugs. Think about how old I am at the time...spent hours one Saturday walking through a muddy field. with the instructions, "go bury the plugs." That was one hell of a turf by August. I never played football on that field, but played a few years of soccer. With those dimensions we wore some people out. I digress...

I remember Mr. Hall...burning those lines for the football team. Fascinating as a kid, ya know?

 

[mando]

@TerryP did you graduate high school in Hsv? If so what school and year? I am not from Hsv but did grow up in North Alabama.

 

[BamaFan334]

That thing could cause someone a few less doubles and triples in baseball.

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP did you graduate high school in Hsv? If so what school and year? I am not from Hsv but did grow up in North Alabama.

Yes. 1985. Berachah Academy. 1973-1985.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Dang I didn’t realize @TerryP was as old as me

 

[Justneedme81]

Dang @TerryP I graduated from Huntsville High in 1999. Knew Marvin Strong, Victor Horn and etc.

 

[TerryP]

Dang I didn’t realize @TerryP was as old as me

How old did you think?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Shades Valley....Homewood AL
Is it still there?
Last class that wasn’t integrated....lol

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Dang I didn’t realize @TerryP was as old as me

Dang, I didn't realize @TerryP was younger than me.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Yep! Old school was pulling a string, popping said string, and then burning that shit with diesel fuel before putting chalk down.

I can remember that from school, and all of the math and measurements laying out the field for the first time each season. When my kids played, some of the booster club dads gave the coaches a break and we lined the freshly cut field every Wednesday night (we called ourselves The Linemen). We used the spray cans instead of chalk, but the rolling dispenser was similar to a chalk dropper for the lines, and we had large stencils for yard line number we had to fill in by hand. Looking at my index finger now, I can still imagine that imprint of a spray can nozzle. It hung around a while.

They moved to sprint turf during my youngest's time, good to not have to worry about mowing and lining, but something is lost when you don't make a divot with your facemask.

RTR,

Tim

 

[UAgrad93]

I can remember that from school, and all of the math and measurements laying out the field for the first time each season. When my kids played, some of the booster club dads gave the coaches a break and we lined the freshly cut field every Wednesday night (we called ourselves The Linemen). We used the spray cans instead of chalk, but the rolling dispenser was similar to a chalk dropper for the lines, and we had large stencils for yard line number we had to fill in by hand. Looking at my index finger now, I can still imagine that imprint of a spray can nozzle. It hung around a while.

They moved to sprint turf during my youngest's time, good to not have to worry about mowing and lining, but something is lost when you don't make a divot with your facemask.

RTR,

Tim

When I started teaching/coaching back in '93-'94, we were still using the diesel fuel and lime dust. We transitioned maybe a couple of years later to the spray cans and dispenser. Those first stencils felt like they must've weighed 600# each, probably because someone made them out of 5/8" plywood!!! When I got out of coaching, it had become a little easier. Stencils were paper thin and the 4 corners of the field were set and all other lines set with plugs that you drove into the ground. About 4 seasons ago, our school went to the Field Turf artificial surface and my son played his career on it. Nice and easy!!!!

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

How old did you think?

mid 40’s

 

[BamaFan334]

I can remember that from school, and all of the math and measurements laying out the field for the first time each season. When my kids played, some of the booster club dads gave the coaches a break and we lined the freshly cut field every Wednesday night (we called ourselves The Linemen). We used the spray cans instead of chalk, but the rolling dispenser was similar to a chalk dropper for the lines, and we had large stencils for yard line number we had to fill in by hand. Looking at my index finger now, I can still imagine that imprint of a spray can nozzle. It hung around a while.

They moved to sprint turf during my youngest's time, good to not have to worry about mowing and lining, but something is lost when you don't make a divot with your facemask.

RTR,

Tim

Did that over at Harrison for the little league games for a couple of years before we moved. Yep, that pointer finger was stained for a few weeks with the manual stencil painting.

 

[mando]

Terry is still a young man but he is closer to my age than I thought. Based on your graduating in 85 we are about 3 years difference in age. Young enough to be able to still make things happen but with some hard knocks wisdom thrown in to help us be smart about it .

 

[TerryP]

Young enough to be able to still make things happen but with some hard knocks wisdom thrown in to help us be smart about it

And still saying, "I should have known better."