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Aw, I was hopin for a better analogy. Good TD, bad analogy. I'll wait for the arguments though.

Sorry about that-

dang Firewall!

my vote goes to orange dudud

You agree with your opponent AND double post? That's enough for a vote to Wbcincy.

It stinks because they tried to re-sod it, but it blew up in their face with the rain and that they didn't give the sod enough time to settle. Hopefully this embarrassment will convince them to change the field.

I dont think the league will need to intervene. This is not a case of the owners beingt cheap. It was a good try. When the new stadium was built, the players, the Rooneys, the fans...everyone wanted that "real grass" experience. The team has actually done their best - they paid millions to have that quagmire installed for last night's game. I just wonder what they plan to do to get it ready for the Cincy game next week.

The grass might work if the stadium wasn't also used for all Pitt home games AND all the high school championship games. At a time of the season when grass is going into it's winter hibernation, increasing the number of games played is not the best idea.

It's time to go with field turf - it would actually benefit the Steelers offense, which is now a speed game with super fast guys like FWP and Santonio Holmes. I believe the Steelers will change the field of their own accord in their own best interests.

What an embarrassment both by to the organization (for the shoddy field conditions) and the team (by only being able to win by 3).

Hopefully the Steelers are on the road next week. Laying sod on sod looked to be a pretty bad idea that blew up in their faces.

And I don't want to hear that the field conditions justified why neither team could put up points. I don't expect the Dolphins to put up much offense anyway, but Pitt has a running game right???

Pitt hosts the Bungles next week. How can you run in that mess though?

The only players in that game last night with any advantage were pass rushers. It was impossible for any other player to cut or even to move. Looked like they were running in wet concrete.

If there hadn't of been a major storm, the field would have been just fine.

it rained, hardly major. Its not like there was a hurricane (ie the time the Steelers played the Dolphins 3 years ago in Ben's first start and there actually had been a hurricane and the field was in much better condition than last night).

WPIAL-best playoffs anywhere in the country. PIAA as a whole is awesome.

bigdleech...where ya from/hs? central catholic grad here

wbcincy, i live right outside of pittsburgh it down poured from 10 p.m. sunday all the way until game time on monday. so it was a "marjor" down pour. the field was already bad after 4 wpial games and a pitt game. for some reason they thought they could replace all that sod in one day. they ended up just laying it on top of the old stuff creating major drainage problems or lack there of. and the field from 3 years ago was way worse. it was completely brown. quit looking for excuses as to why the bengals are going to lose on sunday.

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How are you supposed to vote? They agree with each other.
Football is meant to be played on real grass...that wasn't the problem.
The problem was that there were more than 5 high school/college games, and the field got tore up. The real disaster was that they laid sod over sod the night before the game, then the cover leaked.
It's an NFL field...they shouldn't have let school teams ruin the turf

No they shouldnt, the steelers should put pressure on the city and sponsors of the stadium

SteelCurtain, I'm confused, I live in Mt. Washington, go to Duquesne and am a lifetime Steeler fan who bleeds black and gold as much as anyone. Cincy is only in my title because I lived there for 6 years until I started school here this fall. I despise the Bengals with an unending passion from having lived there. I hate their bandwagon fans and their criminal players.

I know it rained for a while, but like I said, its not like there was flooding here in Pittsburgh or a state of emergency was called, it was just a day long rain. The fact that the WPIAAL playoffs and Pitt also play on the field means they need to have it replaced because they Steelers are always the last to play on it each week. They to lay sod because it was destroyed from the weekend, but thats a terrible solution as well. The only solution is to get field turf.

Wbcincy - I understand the argument you're trying to make... and why you're making it... but I can't vote for you. The playing field conditions last night were deplorable, and it happens to Heinz Field around this time every year. However, suggesting that the NFL would... or could... FORCE the Steelers to change the playing surface at Heinz Field goes a bit too far.
Am I the only one that remembers how eager everyone was to get the NFL players off of Three-Rivers Astroturf, and onto a natural playing surface? I'm sure that the Rooney family remembers that, too. Even the Steelers players are on record this morning, stating that they would rather keep the natural playing surface... once it dries out again.
However, Pitt officials installed an artifical surface for the Panthers' practice field, and are urging a change to field turf. Just last week, Steelers officials travelled to West Virgina University to inspect the Mountaineers' newly-installed playing surface... so an artificial field hasn't been completely ruled out...
For what it's worth, wbcincy, I'm not voting against you either. Your opponent hasn't made much of an argment.