Busch, St. Louis Cardinal owner William Bid- well agreed to treat his team to a trip to En- gland. Mike Lynn, general manager of the , thought it was appropri- ate that the Vikings, with their European roots, make a symbolic crossing of the At- lantic to show the British a thing or two about football. At first the NFL wasn't sure how it would treat such exhibition games. It has very definite rules on how many pre-season games an NFL team can play. The NFL's job is to ensure that all teams derive equal benefit from revenues generated by the league. William Granholm, assistant to the presi- dent of the National Football Conference, explains, "It's expensive for two teams to send 80 players and all their training and coaching personnel to England for a week. The teams needed a way to defray some of their costs. So the decision was made to allow them one extra pre-season game for their troubles." The teams were ready to go, but Wem- bley Stadium wasn't. It had one of the best pitches for rugby and soccer, but it had no experience with . It rare- Goal posts for American football had to be installed before the first game in 1984. ly had more than four days to convert the pitch from one sport to another since it was labor-intensive," Monson describes. "Where There was nothing Monson could do to so heavily booked. American expertise was we would use a 72-inch riding triplex reel improve the spectacular ryegrass turf. Eu- required if the event was to succeed. mower, they would take three hours to cut ropean groundskeepers had learned the su- The Cardinals play on artificial turf at the pitch with a 3D-inch walk-behind reel periority of the improved perennial ryegrass- Busch Stadium, as do the Vikings in the mower that catches the clippings. We'd use es for sports fields years before the idea Metrodome. But, the Vikings headquarters a boom sprayer for spraying for weeds, in- took hold in the U.S. Gallagher was a leader and training center in Eden Prairie, MN, had sects or diseases. They use three or four in their implementation. He was also a leader a state-of-the-art natural turf field under the guys with backpack sprayers. Instead of in the use of high sand content soil. The care of facility supervisor Sam Monson. pushing the turf with a pound of nitrogen Wembley soil was 80 percent sand mixed When Monson heard the Vikings might be per month, they use moderate rates of slow- with cinders, peat and native loam. The dark going to play the Cardinals in Wembley, he release fertilizers. Where we'd use automatic mix warms with only minimal sunshine, asked Lynn if he could go to help out on in-the-ground irrigation, they take hours to drains well enough for most rainstorms that the field marking and preparation. By say- water the field with hoses or ocassionally venture inland from the Atlantic Coast, and ing yes, Lynn started a relationship between a portable sprinkler. It's a whole different can be spread just as easily as sand for top- Monson and the groundsmen at Wembley attitude about labor." dressing and divot repair. that is entering its fourth year. Monson wanted to give the British fans It rained nearly every day the week be- It wasn't that Don Gallagher, head a pitch that was as dressed up as the Su- fore the game. Monson quickly learned that groundsman at Wembley in 1984, was a per Bowl fields they had seen on the "tel- British groundskeepers don't have tarps. "If novice at turf management. He was an in- lie." The Wembley crew never had the oc- continued on page 22 stitution in England, clearly one of the top casion to paint large multi-colored shields groundsmen in the country. After 15 years and logos on the pitch in all its 80 years at Wembley, he knew everything there was of operation. "All they ever used was a white to know about the perennial ryegrass pitch chalky emulsion and a walk-behind liner," and how to help it recover from all types Monson adds. "They were accustomed to of sports and concerts held on it. Since it rain washing the chalk off the field during is the largest stadium in England, it is used a game. The idea of using a latex paint was for all types of events. The pitch endures not something they had ever considered as the ripping and tearing of cleats during proper, since a soccer game might be fol- serums, the huddle-like formations in rug- lowed by a rugby match the next day. by, the fancy footwork of soccer players, American football had never been played the dancing of punk rockers during concerts, in Wembley. The single-post goals had never and the rowdiness of soccer fans who oc- been erected on the pitch before. One of casionally pour out onto the pitch after a the first jobs Monson had to do when he match. Gallagher had discovered precise- arrived in London a week before the Au- ly how to repair the pitch after all these gust game was to install four-foot-square events with sod from Wembley's own nurs- concrete footers for the goal posts. To ac- ery, frequent overseeding and a good pitch- complish this the Wembley crew had to dig forking. out large holes in both goal areas, pour the If someone slipped and called his pitch footers, and replace the soil and sod in time a field, Gallagher would quickly explain, "A for the game. Except for one day every Au- field is where cows eat ... a pitch is where gust, the Wembley fans are unaware that sports are played." the foundations of American football lie "Sports turf management in England is beneath the surface of their pitch. Tingley wanted to paint the NFL logo himself. July, 1987 21 over the project and build the event up over numbers, hash marks and the four-foot-wide a five to ten year period." sidelines ready for Monson. The NFL took more than a year to exa- After going to so much detail to dress up mine all the aspects of staging the Wem- the field, Monson did not want rain to wash bley exhibition game. In 1986, when they away his hard work. He won a compromise were ready to try again, all the chemistry from Tingley that he could use diluted la- was there. The , the John tex paint for the emblems and logos. For Waynes of American football to the British, the white lines, Monson mixed the Snow- and the Chicago Bears, the colorful mis- cal chalk with white Mautz latex paint. As fits pubgoers related to, were paired off. This a result, the designs weren't as bold as the time the press, both national and interna- , but they were just as large. tional, got behind the contest all the way. The week before the game, it rained very It was like a volcano preparing to erupt. little. Conditions for painting were perfect. When Joe Rhein, NFL director of oper- Tingley spent hours working with Monson ations, checked with Wembley about the learning as much as he could. When the arrangements for the pitch, he learned that teams practiced on the field the day before the groundscrew respected the easy-going, the game, the pitch was perfect. This time tall Monson from the Vikings. Steve Tingley, when Monson awoke on game day, the walk- the new head groundskeeper, had sought ers in Hyde Park carried umbrellas to pro- Monson's opinion when the stadium decided tect themselves from the drizzle. He wasn't to install an automatic irrigation system and worried about the drainage, it was Tingley's sand slits to improve the drainage. He may NFL emblem he was concerned about. A fork is used regularly to repair divots and have been 6,000 miles from Wembley, but When he arrived at the stadium he found relieve compacted spots near goal areas. he still kept in touch. "I wanted to go back, that the latex paint in the end zones and Wembley Stadium of course," said Monson, "but I also knew emblem requiured only minor touch up. The continued from page 21 the NFL has its own team of experts it re- white lines, however, were tracking. The we had tarps, we'd spend all our time put- crew wiped up as much of the errant paint ting them down and taking them up with as they could before the game. the rain here," explained Gallagher. More than 80,000 fans packed the stadi- Between showers the day before the um this time. A week of frolicking by the game, Monson instructed Gallagher's crew Bears had drummed up ticket sales. The as they painted the lines for American foot- Cowboys chose to keep a low profile at the ball on the Wembley pitch for the first time National Sports Center's Crystal Palace in its history. Designs were very simple be- where both teams practiced the week be- cause Gallagher only had a few marking fore the game. The Dallas cheerleaders paints. Monson was losing hope as he made up for the shy Cowboys. watched the lines fade in the drizzle and The London weather, which resembled get tracked across the field. He went to sleep Chicago more than Dallas, tipped the game that night disappointed. in favor of the Bears, who despite a cer- He awoke early Sunday morning hoping tain irreverance to British or American cus- for enough sunshine to touch up the pitch toms, prevailed 17-6 in the rain. There was before the one o'clock game. To his delight, little doubt that the NFL had saved the ex- it was cloudy, but not raining. Hyde Park hibition from the throes of indifference. The was already bustling with walkers as he left upcomming contest between the Denver his hotel for the stadium. When he arrived, Broncos and the Los Angeles Rams, was Gallagher had a few extra chaps to help out. sold out two weeks after the tickets went By gametime, not only did the pitch meet The entire field is mowed by a 30-inch reel on sale. "We could have sold 250,000 tick- mower with catcher. Monson's expectations, the American flag ets," exclaimed Wembley's Miller. flew over the stadium for the first time ever. lies on for big events. When Granholm called Both were a good omen for Monson. and asked if I wanted to go back to Wem- Only 37,000 fans bought tickets to the bley, it was like a dream come true." first game. For the most part, the local "Steve has in education what Don had papers were kind to the event, treating it in experience," remarks Monson. Gallagher more as a cultural exchange program than was so close to the conditions of the pitch a true sporting event. The teams received he knew what would happen before it did. their guarantees and the experience of Lon- Tingley went to school for groundskeeping don. The promoter, however, didn't get rich. and mastered turf tennis courts before com- As Monson boarded the plane back to Min- ing to Wembley. "They are both good neapolis, he wasn't sure there would be managers of people," Monson notes. another exhibition game in Wembley for a When Monson returned to Wembley af- while. A bigger blow came to him when Gal- ter two years, he found the field in precisely lagher, whose health had been failing, decid- the same excellent shape. "Tingley was very ed to retire and leave the pitch in new hands. interested in the entire painting process," Little did Monson know, the NFL was not says Monson. "The first day he said he want- disappointed. "Magnitude is really a mat- ed to do the NFL logo himself. He had saved ter of logistics," says Granholm. "We knew all the patterns and boards from the first that American football was catching on game and was anxious to try them out." across Europe. There are currently more This time Monson brought with him all than 500 semi-pro teams in the Euro-Football the paint and stencils he would need for the League. But, it isn't the kind of thing a lo- NFL emblem in the center of the pitch and cal promoter can turn into an instant suc- the helmets and team logos for the end- No sprinkler heads are allowed on the field so cess. The owners felt the NFL should take zones. Tingley had the templates for the Tingley rigged up this Toro head on a stand. 22 sporlsTURF The Wembley grounds crew with Tingley in the center.

"Interest in exhibition games has exploded," says Granholm. "We could put on sell-outs in Germany, France and Italy tomor- row. We have offers from Israel, Sweden, Finland and even Sin- gapore, Malasia. Still, we are five to ten years away from any- thing that might resemble a foreign game schedule. Wembley wants us to hold five preseason games there." The NFL is playing the exhibition game conservatively for the near future. It wants to protect foreign events to the same degree it must protect its franchises in the U.S. The Tingley-Monson team will be back on the pitch next month trying to beat the rain again. Monson still hasn't convinced Wem- bley that tarps might not be a bad idea when you paint a pitch to NFL standards. But rain is not their primary concern this year. Whereas the NFL had the field for four days prior to the game the past two times, this year they have it for a mere 21 hours. The day be- SAFE fore the exhibition game, there will be a soccer match on the field. FOR ALL Monson and Tingley will have from 4 p.m. on Saturday until 1 p.m. on Sunday to wash off the soccer lines, paint the em- RUNNING blems and logos, install the goal posts, and mark all the lines, TRACKS AND numbers and hash marks. Furthermore, it might be raining the whole time. By the end of the day on Sunday, the NFL will hand RECREATIONAL the pitch back to the stadium in condition for an event the next day. AREASI If Monson survives the Wembley ordeal, he may find himself We offer 5 styles of quality edgings (round, flat or narrow facing two exhibition games next year. NFL Commissioner Pete top) to give professional architects and designers the Rozelle has given the nod for a second exhibition game outside choice they need and want for all types of installations, of the U.S. next year. Volvo has invited the Vikings to battle the competitive pricing and immediate product availability 12 months a year. All of this is available from one dependable Bears or the Seattle Seahawks in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mike source! We can serve you through our network of fine Lynn might ask the NFL if Monson could work on that stadium too. Landscape & Nursery Distributors or promptly ship any- "It's funny, I hardly know what London looks like even though where in just a few days (freight allowance given in I've spent more than two weeks there," jests Monson. "It's Gal- areas not serviced by a distributor). lagher, Tingley and the pitch at Wembley that I think of when NON-BENDING STEEL ANCHORING STAKES I think of England. I just wish we could do somthing about that rain!" Our newest stake 9" deep by 1" wide angle steel was researched and well tested to Back home in Eden Prairie, Monson has one artificial field and eliminate all bending problems which are two natural sand-based fields to maintain. When the Vikings aren't common during installations in heavy clay in England, Sweden or on the road, they are practicing in Eden or rocky soil conditions. Prairie. It's his job to make sure those fields are as good or bet- Our other four top quality polyethylene and ter than the stadiums the team plays at during the season. vinyl edgings are: BLACK EOG-KNIGHT, He credits Dr. Donald White, professor of horticulture at the BLACKJACK, SUPER-EOGAND EDG-OUEEN. University of Minnesota-St. Paul, for guiding him into a sports turf management career. Monson was one of White's turf manage- FREESAMPLES,SPECIFICATIONS. ment students and part of the crew at the university's golf course PRICINGAND LITERATUREARE ALWAYS AVAILABLEI WRITE US OR when the professor designed the university's sand-based Memorial CALL COLLECT312 833-3033 Stadium field. The school needed someone to manage the new (outside Illinois) field and White recommended Monson. , -BGG-EDGINGS White also designed the fields at the Vikings training center. Monson was the natural choice when the facility was built in 1980. IF YOU NEED AN EDGING MATERIAL THAT WE CANNOT "It's a constant learning experience to work with Dr. White and PROVIDE, CALL US ANYWAY AND WE WILL HELP YOU FINO IT/ Dick Ericson at the Metrodome," says Monson. "We are learn- ing to deal with some of the toughest playing conditions in the country, and now the world. That's the way we will solve injury @ty-@Ia !fJaIe4,§w;. problems, not by keeping secrets. Steve Tingley has helped me 54 East st. Charles Road • Villa Park, IL 60181 as much as I've helped him. We both have better facilities as Phone: 312-833-3033 • (outside Illinois) a result." ~ ...... ----- t-BOO-EDGINGS ... ., Circle 116 on Postage Free Card July, 1987 23 NEW STADIUM IS READY installed on top of a 14-inch bed of sand the field. Although Dolphin Stadium is cur- FOR THE MIAMI DOLPHINS to help cushion the falls of tackled players. rently for football only, HOK made provi- Calcined clay was mixed with the top few sions for a baseball configuration. Joe Robbe, owner of the Miami Dolphins, inches of sand to keep the field from dry- The stadium is located on a 70-acre land- has done what many thought was impos- ing out too rapidly. The PAT field has a scaped site with parking for thousands of sible, build a football-only stadium for his closed moisture control system with pumps cars. The grounds manager will be respon- team with private financing. The new 73,000- that can either add or remove water from sible for both the field and the surround- seat, open-air stadium is situated on 70 acres the field. A Toro surface irrigation system ing grounds. Southern Turf Nurseries will in northern Dade County, FL, and will be was included at Dolphin Stadium. maintain the stadium grounds until a used for the first time in August. HOK Sports Facilities Group in Kansas grounds manager is selected. The Dolphins leave behind the 54-year- City designed the new stadium with 10,000 old Orange Bowl, but not the sand-based exclusive club-level seats behind the field- Prescription Athletic Turf (PAT) they played level seats and beneath the upper deck. on there. Southern Turf Nurseries installed Fans in these club seats will have access OAKLAND MAY EXPAND a new PAT field in Dolphin Stadium to match to specially-designed lounge spaces sur- SEATING TO ATTRACT the one at the Orange Bowl at Robbe's re- rounding the entire stadium. More than 200 NFL FRANCHISE quest. Tifway bermudagrass sod has been luxury suites on two levels also surround The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum board of directors has engaged HOK Sports Facilities Architects to provide plans for the PARTAC® expansion of the stadium's seating capac- BOTH GOLF COURSE ity to 65,000 in order to accommodate an AVAILABLE IN NFL franchise. The stadium has been a BULK OR BAGS TOP-DRESSING baseball-only facility since the Raiders CAll TOll FREE: moved to Los Angeles. Raiders owner AI 1-800-247-BEAM Davis has recently been feuding with the Los Angeles Coliseum over a plan to add IN N.). skyboxes. 201-637-4191 THE PROFESSIONAL'S CHO'CE HOK has been instructed to consider ad- , .. SINCE 1922 PARTAC PEAT ditional skyboxes, restrooms, press boxes, CORPORATION ~~~~I~~~~ I I YlA\Wf§!#IYif(/,Q/ BEAM CLAY IS THE RED KELSEY PARK concession areas, team rooms, training fa- BASEBALL MIX USED BY GREAT MEADOWS,N.). 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Ten years ago selecting the best turf seed for a particular site was relatively simple. The local seed supplier would have a choice of perhaps four Kentucky bluegrasses, two perennial ryegrasses, one annual ryegrass, one creeping red fescue, one chewings fes- cue, either K-31 or Alta tall fescue and Penn- cross or Highland bentgrass. Landscape ar- chitects rarely attempted to specify certain varieties of turfgrasses believing there wasn't significant difference between them. So, bas- ically you went by the price and the sup- plier's recommendation. Few turf managers realized the potential for improving turfgrass performance ten years ago, nor were they aware of breed- ing work underway by a handful of seed companies to develop and market the seed of better turfgrasses. The management of Bill Meyer explains crossing of selected turf varieties to achieve improved varieties. these seed companies had begun to real- ize the value of research data being siderably faster than in the past making Ryegrasses and tall fescues, despite all produced at universities such as Rutgers production and marketing of individual var- their strengths, are bunch grasses. Only and Pennsylvania State University. They ieties difficult. To solve this problem, seed Kentucky bluegrass and most warm-season started to hire graduate turf breeders from growers are offering blends of three im- grasses spread to repair damaged turf these universities to identify turfgrass var- proved varieties to give them flexibility. The without overseeding. Unfortunately, ieties that outperformed the others and individual varieties in these blends can vary bluegrass' 28-day germination period makes which produced seed in the Oregon fields based on the availability of seed. This way it too slow for overseeding thin sports turf. most profusely. It was beginning to pay turf the company can market the seed by the However, breeders still recommend a heavy companies to improve turfgrasses and to name of the blend and can avoid promot- percentage of Kentucky bluegrass mixed expand the number of choices turf managers ing individual components. The three var- with perennial ryegrass for establishing cool- had when choosing seed for a site. ieties also provide the customer with three season sports turf. Today, it's hard for a seed supplier to pick chances at disease resistance and wear Research on low-maintenance grasses a reasonable number of seed varieties to resistance instead of one. and wildflowers has increased greatly. Hard offer his customers because there are so Nothing can beat the single-week germi- fescues,sheepsfescues,chewingsfescues many. There is a limit to the inventory a sup- nation period of perennial ryegrasses. By and creeping fescues are being developed plier can carry. About the only way a sports improving the color, disease resistance, which require barely any fertilizer at all. Wild- turf manager can see for himself what all mowability and wear tolerance of perenni- flowers are a colorful option for low- the different varieties look like is to attend al ryegrasses, breeders are giving Kentucky maintenace areas of parks, schools and golf the summer field days held at state univer- bluegrass a run for its money in the north- courses. sities and seed companies during the sum- ern U.S. Winter overseeding of dormant Insect resistance is another new feature mer. Chances are, once you see how your warm-season turfgrasses with perennial of perennial ryegrasses, turf-type tall fes- old variety stacks up against the newer ones, ryegrass continues to expand as soccer and cues and fine fescues made possible by a you'll want to switch. other winter sports take their toll on dormant fungus contained in new varieties. This en- One of the largest of these field days is turf. Overseeding has become much more dophytic fungus repulses attacking aphids, held by Turf Seed Inc. in Hubbard, OR, every than a factor of appearance during the bill bugs, sod webworms and chinchbugs. June. In five years, the company's Bill Meyer winter. Growers have been able to produce seed has planted thousands of different varieties New turf-type tall fescues are quickly containing the fungus. It's an extra benefit of turfgrass on 66 acres of Willamette Val- replacing K-31 and Alta on sports fields, to look for when selecting a seed variety. ley farmland and maintained them to indus- parks and roughs. The finer blades and dar- Turf field days are valuable events for try standards. Meyer keeps in touch with ker green color of these fescues, combined sports turf managers today. Ask your seed fellow breeders across the country to learn with surprising shade and wear tolerance, supplier about field days in your area. You of regional variances in turf performance. make renovating older tall fescue sites with can see for yourself how the newer varie- He shares all this information with nearly the new varieties wise. Dwarf turf-type tall ties can help you do a better job. Also ask 500 turf managers who venture from across fescues will enter the market soon to give him about about the national turfgrass tri- the country to his research farm. the turf the additional benefit of reduced als taking place at more than 30 different Meyer and other breeders have had a mowing frequency. Some breeders, locations around the country. The type of great deal of success in developing improved however, question the wisdom of using dwarf turf seed you buy does make a difference. perennial ryegrasses and turf-type tall fes- tall fescues on heavily-used sports fields, With the number of improved varieties on cues. The number of new, significantly- but they praise it for low-maintenance util- the market, field days and new information improved varieties is rising at a rate con- ity turf areas. from suppliers is important. July, 1987 25 ROOKIES ~ PRODUCT UPDATE

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HAZARD ABSORBER REFLECTIVE RAIN COVER Be prepared for oil or pesticide spills dur- Stadium grounds superintendents can ing handling, mixing or storage with Hazorb prepare a field the day before a game and absorbent pillows from Precision Labora- cover it without fear of killing the turf with tories. Small granules contained in the pil- heat. The silver surface on both sides of lows will absorb 15 times more liquid than Covermaster's rain cover reflects heat so clay products without the need to spread well that it will not turn turf brown even af- absorbent from a bag. Once the hazardous ter 20 hours on moderate days. After an irrigation troubleshooter deter- liquid is picked up by the pillow, it can be According to the manufacturer, this at- mines a system malfunction is caused by disposed of neatly according to regulations. tractive, reversible cover will last three to a damaged wire underneath the surface, For most liquids, a single pillow will ab- five years and is one-third the cost of con- he needs a way to find the break quickly. sorb up to 2.7 gallons in less than five ventional covers. Grounds crews like it be- When the wire is long and buried under valu- minutes. It has been tested successfully on cause it is only a third of the weight of con- able sports turf, the job becomes especially more than 115 different liquids including pes- ventional covers. tough. ticides, chlorinated hydrocarbons, solvents, A team or sponsor's logo can also be in- The Model 2003 Pulser from Progressive oils, salts and acids. Typically, Hazorb will cluded on the silver cover. Electronics is a battery-powered cable fault- pick up 80 percent of its capacity within 30 COVERMASTER locating system capable of pinpointing any seconds of contact. Circle 128 on Postage Free Card

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