McCarthy to Badgers: 'Don't screw up the grass'

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

11 years ago

GREEN BAY — Mike McCarthy has just one small request for the University of Wisconsin football team when the Badgers open their 2016 season against LSU at Lambeau Field.

"Just don't screw up the grass," the Green Bay Packers coach said Thursday.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Jeff Potrykus reported Thursday morning that Wisconsin will indeed face LSU as long rumored in Green Bay on Sept. 3, 2016. It will mark the second time a UW team has played at Lambeau; the first was the UW men's hockey team, which played Ohio State in front of a crowd of 40,890 in 2006.

A UW official told Potrykus that the game was made possible by Virginia Tech agreeing to move the Hokies' home game against the Badgers to later in the year. That game had been set for Sept. 10, 2016.

UW and LSU are also set to open the 2014 season on Aug. 30 in Houston.

Asked what he thought of the idea, McCarthy smiled and hinted that general manager Ted Thompson isn't really a fan of it.

"I know how Ted would want me to answer that," McCarthy said amid laughter from reporters. "But I'm going to take the high road and say, 'Hey, it would be great to have the Badgers play at Lambeau Field.'"

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nerdmann
Premier Member

11 years ago

Grass is already screwed up.

Field turf, with real grass woven in with rubber fibers, which players are falling down on all the time.

Shitty surface.

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texaspackerbacker
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11 years ago

Fertilize the Field Turf with Tiger blood.

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nerdmann
Premier Member

11 years ago

Fertilize the Field Turf with Tiger blood.

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker

Lambeau used to have the best surface in the league.

And BTW, this is another thing I'd do to address the injury situation. Get rid of that slippery bullshit they use for turf. Looks good for the cameras in the playoffs. That's about all I can say for it.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

Porforis
Veteran Member

11 years ago

Grass is already screwed up.

Field turf, with real grass woven in with rubber fibers, which players are falling down on all the time.

Shitty surface.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann

Just look at Soldier field if you want to know the difference between grass and screwed up grass.

nerdmann
Premier Member

11 years ago

Just look at Soldier field if you want to know the difference between grass and screwed up grass.

Originally Posted by: Porforis

During the 90s, the Packers had to resod one or two of the years, because the grass got all chopped up for the playoffs.

They sold small pieces of the "frozen tundra" for awhile too. People still have that shit. lol

Because of what happened back then, they went with this bullshit that causes players to slide all over the place, even in cleats. I don't like it at all.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

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