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New Turf

UMGriz75 said:
IntuitiveGriz said:
Field looks GREAT.
Especially the Griz color lining on the numbers, that's SHARP.
Covering Griz at the previous Dornblaser, sitting next to Jack Swarthout, and its wooden high school bleachers, and (often) dead grass, I never thought I would see something like this at the collegiate level, or at UM. It's a fantasy-land; just incredible.

I've never seen Dornblaser back in the day. It sounds like things have come a long way! :thumb:

I played a HS game in WA-GRIZ the very first year it was open. My Sophomore year Hellgate hosted us (Butte) for their homecoming game, in 1986. I thought it was a mecca then... HA... 2016 must be heaven itself... well 2017 (with the Champions Center) will be flat-out be... (what's better than heaven) :!: :!: :!:
 
IntuitiveGriz said:
UMGriz75 said:
IntuitiveGriz said:
Field looks GREAT.
Especially the Griz color lining on the numbers, that's SHARP.
Covering Griz at the previous Dornblaser, sitting next to Jack Swarthout, and its wooden high school bleachers, and (often) dead grass, I never thought I would see something like this at the collegiate level, or at UM. It's a fantasy-land; just incredible.

I've never seen Dornblaser back in the day. It sounds like things have come a long way! :thumb:

I played a HS game in WA-GRIZ the very first year it was open. My Sophomore year Hellgate hosted us (Butte) for their homecoming game, in 1986. I thought it was a mecca then... HA... 2016 must be heaven itself... well 2017 (with the Champions Center) will be flat-out be... (what's better than heaven) :!: :!: :!:


A championship
 
EverettGriz said:
MaltaMan said:
Silvertip said:
EverettGriz said:
Looks awesome except for the ridiculous required big sky logo.

They'll just have to remove it when we move up!


I will go on record as opposing a move up. We have enough trouble excelling now to even think about it.

Yes, msu has trouble excelling at anything.


Moron. You state right in your sig you're an msu fan. Time to create yet another new handle which won't fool anyone. Seriously? What is it with kitty fans pretending to be GRIZ fans on this site??


Get your trick ass outta Egriz MaltaMangina
 
SouthDakotaGrizzly said:
As a bonus, I see the University invested in the stitched on letters/numbers/logos rather than paint, which will prevent any debacles like the one at the Hall of Fame game last weekend.

On a side note, does anyone know exactly how those things are "stitched" on?

The University hasn't used paint since they had actual grass years ago.

I too was wondering how the lettering and hash marks are stitched on, and I looked it up a few days ago. If UM does it the same way, once the initial turf is layed out and stitched together, the turf is measured to match the size of the letters/numbers/logos and then cut out. The letters/numbers/logos are then inserted into the cut out sections and glued down and stitched together. Jump to the 2:20 mark of the video below and they talk about how they install the "inlay" phase of the turf.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9X_wqYGbc[/youtube]
 
Silvertip said:
Dornblaser Field #1..Visit the Mansfield Library and you're standing on hallowed ground.
Fun fact - the Campbell field site of the "New" Dornblaser field was the 3rd choice - President Johns wanted to save this site to develop a University-sponsored community-funded research center. 1st choice? Property owned by UM at Fort Missoula - Johns thought it would be a grand idea to build a joint High School/UM facility there. 2nd Choice? on campus just north of Adam's field house (what could have been with the right leadership and foresight) Why not just rebuild at the existing site? Johns thought it too valuable for a limited use facility.
 
Grizbeer said:
Silvertip said:
Dornblaser Field #1..Visit the Mansfield Library and you're standing on hallowed ground.
Fun fact - the Campbell field site of the "New" Dornblaser field was the 3rd choice - President Johns wanted to save this site to develop a University-sponsored community-funded research center. 1st choice? Property owned by UM at Fort Missoula - Johns thought it would be a grand idea to build a joint High School/UM facility there. 2nd Choice? on campus just north of Adam's field house (what could have been with the right leadership and foresight) Why not just rebuild at the existing site? Johns thought it too valuable for a limited use facility.
Robert Johns replaced Harry Newburn, and he was quite forward looking. Like Engstrom, he wanted to put his own brand on the University, adopted a new "UM" logo, which was just awful, and announced a new research facility out at UM's property at the Fort. A great big sign was erected "Future Home of ....." and the sign lasted many years, until about 2001 or or so when it finally fell down.

Too bad, the Old Dornblaser site was right in the middle of campus, and did serve to make a visual synthesis between sport and academics, especially in conjunction with Schreiber Gym, which then was part of the football stadium, as the locker room and equipment center, and offered the visual offset of the history of sports set in ceramic tiles, as well as the giant "Discobolos" statute mounted outside of the facade of Schreiber. Taken together, Dornblaser and Schreiber, as an integrated facility really did evoke an "Ivy league" atmosphere. Technically, Schreiber Gym is what is left of the "Old Dornblaser."

Johns didn't stay around too long, just three years. I don't recall why he left. I vaguely recall some friction about something, and when he left Robert Pantzer was appointed president. That was an interesting era.
 
EverettGriz said:
MaltaMan said:
Silvertip said:
EverettGriz said:
Looks awesome except for the ridiculous required big sky logo.

They'll just have to remove it when we move up!


I will go on record as opposing a move up. We have enough trouble excelling now to even think about it.

Yes, msu has trouble excelling at anything.


Moron. You state right in your sig you're an msu fan. Time to create yet another new handle which won't fool anyone. Seriously? What is it with kitty fans pretending to be GRIZ fans on this site??

Go easy on them. They want to be a part of football progress. On average, they have literally sucked for 30 years. Can you even imagine what that must feel like?
 
CDA, clearly you haven't heard about the guard change. They own like a whole county or something over there now. #boom.
 
CDAGRIZ said:
Go easy on them. They want to be a part of football progress. On average, they have literally sucked for 30 years. Can you even imagine what that must feel like?
"Our last National Championship was in the last Century." That has a ring to it ...
 
grizpsych said:
Honestly, this is getting near arguing about plastic tits. They're nice. Don't think too much.

Fine... Ask UM, I tend to overthink everything. Now it's plastic tits. On the other hand, might be worth overdoing. They are nice...
 
UMGriz75 said:
Grizbeer said:
Silvertip said:
Dornblaser Field #1..Visit the Mansfield Library and you're standing on hallowed ground.
Fun fact - the Campbell field site of the "New" Dornblaser field was the 3rd choice - President Johns wanted to save this site to develop a University-sponsored community-funded research center. 1st choice? Property owned by UM at Fort Missoula - Johns thought it would be a grand idea to build a joint High School/UM facility there. 2nd Choice? on campus just north of Adam's field house (what could have been with the right leadership and foresight) Why not just rebuild at the existing site? Johns thought it too valuable for a limited use facility.
A great big sign was erected "Future Home of ....." and the sign lasted many years, until about 2001 or or so when it finally fell down.
Hmmm . . .Wasn't that the same year the Hermanson family took their Montana vacation?
 
bgbigdog said:
grizpsych said:
Honestly, this is getting near arguing about plastic tits. They're nice. Don't think too much.

Fine... Ask UM, I tend to overthink everything. Now it's plastic tits. On the other hand, might be worth overdoing. They are nice...
I'm on record as being both pro-Stitt and pro-tit!
 
“Oh, the joys of Progressivism.” Grisly Fan

If it weren’t for Progressivism, football would consist of a few Neandertals like Grisly Fan and Ursa Major and other geniuses bouncing coconuts off each other’s pin heads from the trees that they had always been afraid to come out of … until a liberal showed the poor, perpetually frightened trogs how to do it. And, the progression of ideas, changes and improvements in the game from that point down to its current form would be opposed by the backward dingbats every step of the way. Then, after each improvement had been made and established over their bitter, monosyllabic objections, they’d spend the day running around on all fours grunting in a self-congratulatory manner as though the new idea had been all theirs from the start … even though they’d never had an idea in their narrow, little lives or heard of a new one they didn’t hate.

See, it’s just like coach told you, “Sport’s a metaphor for life.” You were just too stupid to learn the right lessons.
 
Fat Bruno said:
“Oh, the joys of Progressivism.” Grisly Fan

If it weren’t for Progressivism, football would consist of a few Neandertals like Grisly Fan and Ursa Major and other geniuses bouncing coconuts off each other’s pin heads from the trees that they had always been afraid to come out of … until a liberal showed the poor, perpetually frightened trogs how to do it. And, the progression of ideas, changes and improvements in the game from that point down to its current form would be opposed by the backward dingbats every step of the way. Then, after each improvement had been made and established over their bitter, monosyllabic objections, they’d spend the day running around on all fours grunting in a self-congratulatory manner as though the new idea had been all theirs from the start … even though they’d never had an idea in their narrow, little lives or heard of a new one they didn’t hate.

See, it’s just like coach told you, “Sport’s a metaphor for life.” You were just too stupid to learn the right lessons.
Here's a tip, next time you try and make someone look stupid by calling them a Neandertal, try spelling it correctly. Neanderthal.
 
Ursa Major said:
Fat Bruno said:
“Oh, the joys of Progressivism.” Grisly Fan

If it weren’t for Progressivism, football would consist of a few Neandertals like Grisly Fan and Ursa Major and other geniuses bouncing coconuts off each other’s pin heads from the trees that they had always been afraid to come out of … until a liberal showed the poor, perpetually frightened trogs how to do it. And, the progression of ideas, changes and improvements in the game from that point down to its current form would be opposed by the backward dingbats every step of the way. Then, after each improvement had been made and established over their bitter, monosyllabic objections, they’d spend the day running around on all fours grunting in a self-congratulatory manner as though the new idea had been all theirs from the start … even though they’d never had an idea in their narrow, little lives or heard of a new one they didn’t hate.

See, it’s just like coach told you, “Sport’s a metaphor for life.” You were just too stupid to learn the right lessons.
Here's a tip, next time you try and make someone look stupid by calling them a Neandertal, try spelling it correctly. Neanderthal.
Uh... You are letting FB off pretty light here.
 
Fat Bruno said:
“Oh, the joys of Progressivism.” Grisly Fan

If it weren’t for Progressivism, football would consist of a few Neandertals like Grisly Fan and Ursa Major and other geniuses bouncing coconuts off each other’s pin heads from the trees that they had always been afraid to come out of … until a liberal showed the poor, perpetually frightened trogs how to do it. And, the progression of ideas, changes and improvements in the game from that point down to its current form would be opposed by the backward dingbats every step of the way. Then, after each improvement had been made and established over their bitter, monosyllabic objections, they’d spend the day running around on all fours grunting in a self-congratulatory manner as though the new idea had been all theirs from the start … even though they’d never had an idea in their narrow, little lives or heard of a new one they didn’t hate.

See, it’s just like coach told you, “Sport’s a metaphor for life.” You were just too stupid to learn the right lessons.
The problem with Progressives is that they want to believe that all progress is good, all the while worrying about the effects of global warming -- which was brought to them by, yep, progress. And it of course spawned pseudo-intellectual, bloviating blowhards like you.
 
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