Artificial soccer fields are a horrible invention

[papie]

Omg we are at a tournament for Anna and it is seriously 10 degrees at least higher here than just off the field. It is a beautiful breezy day, yet the stupid field is an oven. A chemical plastic smelling oven.

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Eww. Boo. I feel hot just reading this.

[agnes]

I despise astro-turf.

[snorky]

There's an afro turf covered playground near me that I thought was the stupidest thing when we first moved down here. I changed my tune real quick when we had the rainiest summer in recent history- no mud in the car! But grassstains and muddy cleats are kind of a rite of soccer.

[papie]

Outdoors. Ugh. We are done for the day but back tomorrow. Hopefully it isn't sunny. Thankfully she played on real grass all summer, it would have been really depressing otherwise.

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Sept 7, 2013 11:32:33 GMT -5 snorky said:

There's an afro turf covered playground near me that I thought was the stupidest thing when we first moved down here. I changed my tune real quick when we had the rainiest summer in recent history- no mud in the car! But grassstains and muddy cleats are kind of a rite of soccer.

I chuckle at "afro" turf.

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Sept 7, 2013 12:58:46 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Sept 7, 2013 11:32:33 GMT -5 snorky said:

There's an afro turf covered playground near me that I thought was the stupidest thing when we first moved down here. I changed my tune real quick when we had the rainiest summer in recent history- no mud in the car! But grassstains and muddy cleats are kind of a rite of soccer.

I chuckle at "afro" turf.

I'm literally LOL'ing! Good catch.

[snorky]

Oh, dear god. Astro. I do hope that I can blame that on auto correct....

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It happens to the best of us. LOL.

[Redpoppy]

I am fairly certain there are copious amount of chemicals on our grass soccer fields, plus mosquitoes with West Nile. No change of natural lawn care. I can smell the insect repellent as soon as I get out of the car too. But astro turf? Eww.

[cleo29]

I just hate the little black granules that they use. They get everywhere.

[HiC]

Our turf fields are so messy and the little turf blades get everywhere....underwear, socks, stuck on your skin. Blech.