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**limpoporanique** · 10-16-2007, 01:57 AM

Mike Ditka's testimony to the Senate committee:

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/in...itness_ID=6741

I love his description of the playing surface we used to see in domes and some other stadiums.

a concrete parking lot covered with a quarter-inch layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting called “Astroturf”

I still recall the absolutely horrifying moment in a Bears-Eagles game at the old Vet in Philly. I don't recall if it was a Bears' receiver or DB, but I was completely horrified and dumbfounded when the guy had to be carted off the field when as a result of the hit and the contact with the playing surface, his knee-caps ended up underneath the top of his thigh pads.

Yet for several years after, teams continued to play on this most dangerous playing surface. I understand that technology in field turf was a ways out, but there had to be some way to provide some padding under the astroturf.

10-16-2007, 01:57 AM	#39
limpoporanique Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	Mike Ditka's testimony to the Senate committee: http://commerce.senate.gov/public/in...itness_ID=6741 I love his description of the playing surface we used to see in domes and some other stadiums. a concrete parking lot covered with a quarter-inch layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting called “Astroturf” I still recall the absolutely horrifying moment in a Bears-Eagles game at the old Vet in Philly. I don't recall if it was a Bears' receiver or DB, but I was completely horrified and dumbfounded when the guy had to be carted off the field when as a result of the hit and the contact with the playing surface, his knee-caps ended up underneath the top of his thigh pads. Yet for several years after, teams continued to play on this most dangerous playing surface. I understand that technology in field turf was a ways out, but there had to be some way to provide some padding under the astroturf.
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