The first U.S. built a black the Outdoor synthetic grass football field

The first U.S. built a black the Outdoor synthetic grass football field

    West Salem High School in Oregon recently become the focus of discussion by the local and national sports media, because he installed the first piece black synthetic grass football field. The high school in the capital of Oregon, West Salem High School was established in 2002. 10 years after school boarded the national headlines because it is new turf.

    First a black outdoor synthetic grass football field

    All first saw the stadium will send this question: Why is the black turf? Although the United States has many schools to attract people's attention through the installation of colored synthetic grass pitch. Such as blue synthetic grass pitch Bo Xiyi State University and Eastern Washington red synthetic grass pitch. West Salem High School chose black synthetic grass but in fact the main reason not to create topics attract attention. West Salem High School does not use green and black turf main reason is to save money. The cheaper black turf, the turf manufacturer FieldTurf company does not need dyeing, piece of turf for nearly 15 million dollars. Piece of turf nickname is "big black hole", the new turf to the renovation of the construction of the original school stadium. Turf greatly reduced prices, the block of the stadium cost just over $ 300,000. Such a low price can make the stadium Huanran look, and good school to become a national talking point is likely to become the object that people will follow.

    West Salem High School sporting director Bryan said: "We never imagined this would cause such a big impact as far as I know this site is the first in the country a black the Outdoor synthetic grass pitch. Really belongs to the country's first to the local media. '

    The approval process to install the black turf is not so simple, in order to avoid being the other team to race away complaints, the school team has the white jersey instead of the traditional green T-shirt black shorts. Because the the black stadium's temperature is higher, the higher the cooling effect of the white jersey which makes wearing the white jersey of the home team has a certain advantage. Even so, people still think the players wearing a black shirt and turf color similar to this will affect the game.