OT: Eastern Washington's Horrifying Field

I'm pretty sure this was covered by every college football outpost months ago when they first did it, but still, "Oh, my retinas!!"

I knew they had a red field but I've never seen it before. God does that look awful.

Did the field come with compimentary hookers or a few thousand in free gambling chips?  I guess what happens in Eastern Washington now stays in Eastern Washington.

This could possibly raise safety issues.  What if a player is bleeding and isn't aware of it?  Would you even be able to identify the blood on the turf? 

I guess I can't comprehend the idea of college football being so unpopular in a place that they have to resort to minor league baseball tactics to get people to show up.

Oh Rodney Stuckey...

That is terrible.  The only team in the country that should have different colored turf is the Broncos of Boise.  It is in their tradition and they've been a great team for a long time now, which is another reason it's okay for them.  Eastern Kentucky has no excuse for this nonsense, and it's obvious that they took a page out of Boise's playbook here.  What's next?  are the Gophers going to paint the turf brown?  Will Syracuse roll out the Orange carpet?  Maybe we should slide out the Maize turf.  No, we should not, and neither should anyone else.

"It's gonna be a beautiful day for football here at The Pad."

My eyes. The goggles, they do nothing.

I could see Cincy doing it.

Big Sky tv, you can watch them play on it live for the first time tomorrow!

That's offensive. Here's to hoping for their fan's sake that it is always overcast when they are playing at home.

I wonder how long it will take the NCAA to make a rule about non-green plaing fields...

it'd be funny if someone did a "dead grass brown" field.  Or a white field with black lettering - it'd look like snow all the time!  How about a "mood field" or "hypercolor" field?  Like the mood rings or hypercolor t-shirts (popular circa 1990 or so) that change color with the temperature...

Would Iowa ever make the field turf on the visitors side pink?  I think TT would seriously consider a black field if they didn't run the risk of literally frying anything that came in contact with it at high noon.   

Awesome trivia:

'Of course, "Blood Field" is only a nickname: Officially, it's now "Roos Field," after native Estonian, EWU alum and current Tennessee Titan Michael Roos, who donated $500,000 toward the installation.'

They have an alum in the NFL, he's from Estonia (?!), and he spent half a million on that field.  Amazing.

In a few years, after the sun has faded it to a nice pink color we are all going to think that this is hilarious.

make it stop.

How soon until that field is referred to as "the bloody tampon"?

At least it isn't cammo. A club lacrosse team I played on had cammo jersys and they would give anyone watching the game a headache.

it looks like a paneled living room from the 70s. It needs a few black vinyl couches.

Where is my "Saturday Night Fever" 8- track?

Those cameras are screwed trying to work with that red. I recall watching a PGA event once where Tiger was in victory red, but it had narrow black stripes. It was so, so, so red that the camera couldn't deal with it versus the black stripes, and it kept waving and moving. It was like watching the background of Max Hedrum.

Love it