🏈 Ugly uniforms didn't do it, so we'll change our field to black to try to become relevant.

[TerryP]

[h=1]Maryland Football's Black Field Rumors May Have Terrifying, Nightmarish Legs[/h] by Bill Hanstock • Jun 1, 2012 10:39 AM EDT
The Maryland Terrapins are rumored to be working on a new, freakish football field for the upcoming season. These rumors have only been whispered under the cover of nightfall, or in shady back rooms of taverns until recently. It is said the new field would be as black as coal and so terrifying as to turn the hair of a young man stark white. On Thursday, a new bit of information was spake publicly that could lend a chilling reality to these rumors. Read on ... if ye dare!

Omar Mohammed from WUSA 9 reported on Thursday that the field will indeed be getting a new look.

A source within the program told me that the turf being applied to the field will be either black or pewter.
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Black or pewter! The devil's color or the devil's metal! This would seem to lend credence to this horrifying image of the (supposedly) proposed new field. Those with weak constitutions, avert your eyes:

via Mr. Irrelevant
Could this soon be a reality? If Maryland plays fast and loose with the accepted parameters of reality, what is next? A purple JMU field? A TCU field made entirely out of drugs? A Florida turf comprised of arrests?
Surely this would be the worst thing to happen to -- or in -- Maryland, ever. This would be the first and surely biggest blight on that tremendous state known as Maryland. Or, as we in the rest of the country refer to it, "The Ideal State."

 

[TerryP]

As much as I hate the NCAA sticking their noses into anything and everything, I'm leaning towards wanting them to issue a mandate requiring green turf.

 

[Bo]

As much as I hate the NCAA sticking their noses into anything and everything, I'm leaning towards wanting them to issue a mandate requiring green turf.

Amen!

 

[UAgrad93]

I agree with you Terry! NCAA needs to step in and set the rule that all fields must be green!! That is an eyesore for college football!! I didn't think anything could be worse than the smurf turf.

 

[TerryP]

The next thing you know teams will be stenciling a realistic football on all of their jerseys so their opponents won't be able to tell who really has the football...:crazy:

I did wonder if it would make it more difficult to see the football on the field of play.

 

[jdpas29]

Why does the turf have to be black? That's racist

 

[Tide Rolling Through MD]

:icon_sad:

 

[Duder]

Black field with those ugly ass unis? Wow

 

[TerryP]

What about the heat?

My God, can you imagine how hot you would get standing on a black surface on a hot humid day?

We are talking about College Park, Maryland.

Average temp in that area for August and September is the mid 80's, and the average humidity is lower than that. We'd call it a cool, fall day in Alabama.

 

[TerryP]

Have you ever stood on a black surface on an 85 degree day? A black surface can increase the temperature by 20-40 degrees, that could mean the field temperature would reach at least 105 on an 85 degree day...

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That would not only increase the temperature on the field, but could increase the temperature in the stadium.

Not for long...white collar job and all. I've played golf with it over 100 and high humidity...fished with the same. :greybiggrin:

 

[RTB X Bot]

CFBW: per @MDTerpsLacrosse, Maryland's hideous uniforms are becoming hideous endzones. http://t.co/ROesyIuc

CFBW: per @MDTerpsLacrosse, Maryland's hideous uniforms are becoming hideous endzones. http://t.co/ROesyIuc

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[RTB X Bot]

jonsol: RT @MDTerpsLacrosse: Rendering of new FieldTurf Revolution surface at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. http://t.co/wW9TadWO

jonsol: RT @MDTerpsLacrosse: Rendering of new FieldTurf Revolution surface at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. http://t.co/wW9TadWO

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[silvermetalflake]

Black absorbs heat like an SOB.... won't that turn the field into a giant pancake griddle of sorts; heat radiating up off the turf and barbecuing players in the summer. Maybe Gatorade is behind this?

 

[TerryP]

Black absorbs heat like an SOB.... won't that turn the field into a giant pancake griddle of sorts; heat radiating up off the turf and barbecuing players in the summer. Maybe Gatorade is behind this?

:cool_blue: If that were the case, it would be yet another conspiracy of one of the SEC schools attempts to rule over other conferences.

 

[Tide Rolling Through MD]

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...w-mezzanine-new-field-maryland-pride-uniforms

The new, synthetic Byrd Stadium football and lacrosse field won’t be red, black or pewter.

It will approximate the same color of the natural grass dug up weeks ago — green.

Maryland on Wednesday released renderings that dispelled any notions — the subject of speculation on fan sites — that the field would be one of the colors that appear on Terps’ uniforms. Black was a popular guess.

The FieldTurf Revolution surface will be green between the goal lines. The end zones will be red, white, black and gold in a design reminiscent of the state flag and of the Maryland Pride uniforms unveiled last season.

 

[CrimsonVette]

Well that's some good news. A black field would have been horrible. Now if there was some way to get rid of that butt ugly blue field. I can not stand to watch a game on that stuff, it actually hurts your eyes on TV.

 

[Tide Rolling Through MD]

I agree. A black field would have been horrendous.

 

[obie]

As much as I hate the NCAA sticking their noses into anything and everything, I'm leaning towards wanting them to issue a mandate requiring green turf.

:twothumbs: Yes!!!
:animbeer7io:

Would only watch a game at smurffyville if I still had a b&w television!!!!!