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    AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports. The original AstroTurf product was a short-pile...
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    as AstroTurf. Given its early use, the term astroturf has since been genericized as a term for any artificial turf. Because the supply of AstroTurf was...
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  • "fake" or "artificial" appearance of support. The term astroturfing is derived from AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to resemble natural...
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    Astrodome (redirect from Astro dome)
    the first major sports venue to install artificial turf in 1966, which became known as AstroTurf. In another technological first, the Astrodome featured...
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    in cooler weather. The original AstroTurf installation was replaced with FieldTurf from 2005 to 2010. The FieldTurf took about 40 hours to remove for...
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    of playing on standard green AstroTurf, athletic director Gene Bleymaier came up with the idea to install the blue turf. If BSU was going to spend $750...
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    players on both the Astros and the visiting teams to miss routine pop flies. A new artificial turf was created called "AstroTurf" and Houston would be...
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    version of FieldTurf called Air FieldTurf has been installed to cover the edges of runways at several airports. AstroTurf Poly-Turf Benjamin, Amalie...
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    offseason, the original style turf was replaced with a newer AstroTurf product, AstroTurf GameDay Grass (also known as AstroPlay). The lease agreement also...
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  • Archived from the original on May 30, 2024. Retrieved May 30, 2024. "New Turf Surface Installation Completed at Paulson Stadium". Georgia Southern University...
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    but this was replaced in 1970 with artificial turf, which was updated to AstroTurf in 1986. The AstroTurf was replaced with grass in 1998, but the field...
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    initially built with an AstroTurf surface, but it was replaced in 2000 by softer FieldTurf. A new version of FieldTurf, FieldTurf Duo, was installed prior...
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    nickname "Astro" after high school friends compared his flat-top haircut to AstroTurf, and he reportedly had the image of cartoon dog Astro from The Jetsons...
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    facilities with artificial turf. The AstroTurf field was replaced in 1972, 1977, 1987, and 1995. FieldTurf, a new variation of synthetic turf, was installed in...
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    rated just as low as the old, hard AstroTurf had been. Giants Stadium finally scrapped the grass in favor of FieldTurf for the 2003 season, a surface that...
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  • its artificial grass blades, rather than the nylon used in AstroTurf and 3M's Tartan Turf. In the late 1960s, the natural grass surface at the Orange...
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  • in turf war (disambiguation) Astroturfing Artificial turf AstroTurf Poly-Turf This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Turf. If...
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    1994 season. The stadium's AstroTurf was replaced with AstroPlay in 2001. In the summer of 2022, the stadium was given a new turf field. A massive renovation...
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    to AstroTurf and lights were added for its third season in 1969. After seven years, it was replaced with new AstroTurf in 1976. Sand-based OmniTurf was...
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    definitively, a theory links the cancer to toxic PFAS chemicals in the AstroTurf at Veterans Stadium. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. was born August 30,...
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    18, 2023. "San José State University Football Upgrades to AstroTurf". astroturf.com. AstroTurf. Retrieved March 19, 2023. "SJSU in the News: Spartan Stadium...
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    2026. 1923–69: Natural grass 1970–83: AstroTurf 1984–91: All-Pro Turf 1992–98: AstroTurf-9 1999–present: FieldTurf Nebraska has sold out 401 consecutive...
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    surface at Arrowhead Stadium, which had AstroTurf from 1972 through 1993. However, Toma has said that artificial turf requires a good deal of maintenance...
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    has been FieldTurf. This replaced AstroPlay, which had been used since 2001. The stadium's playing field was natural grass until AstroTurf was installed...
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    service. In 1968, the stadium became one of the first stadiums to have an AstroTurf surface. It stayed until natural grass was restored to the field in 1994...
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    All-Star break; Monsanto, the then-owner of AstroTurf, won the turf replacement contract over SuperTurf (then used by the Metrodome) with a bid of $1...
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  • events and an electronic score board. The astro turf has been imported from Germany. Hockey India League "Astroturf Hockey Stadium". timesofindia.indiatimes...
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    the stadium surface was changed from AstroTurf (which had been in place since the stadium opened) to FieldTurf. In July 2011, the field was replaced...
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    again and retired in 1981. In 2001, the original AstroTurf was eventually replaced by a new surface, NexTurf. It was far softer, and reportedly much easier...
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  • played on the first-generation AstroTurf surface. From 2000 to 2005, NFL stadiums phased out the short-pile AstroTurf in favor of natural grass or other...
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