Snow won't be able to accumulate quite so much in future games at Lambeau Field. The Packers have announced that after this season, they'll install a brand new field surface that will include improved drainage and heating. Players have complained about the field this year, and the Packers are switching to a grass surface that will include synthetic fibers stitched into the sod. Does the presence of synthetic fibers mean football at the longest continuously occupied stadium in the league will be a little less old school?
"It's grass, so that remains true to the spirit of our stadium," general manager Ted Thompson said in a statement. "Players will get dirty and have grass stains, that kind of thing."
In a way that sounds like a ridiculous statement, that anyone should care whether the players get grass stains, but you know what? I do care. I'm glad we're still going to be able to see players getting dirty at Lambeau. That's the way things ought to be.
Note: Contrary to popular belief, the words "frozen tundra" were never spoken by John Facenda at NFL Films. Chris Berman made it up when doing his Facenda impressions, and it sounded so much like something Facenda would have said that a lot of people will now swear they heard him say it.
