Shortcomings
This is the newly completed playing field next to the High School at the top of our street. In this photo, they are playing soccer, but it was built primarily as a football field as the High School has a great sports program and their football team makes it to the finals every year. 
The field took more than a year to construct and as it progressed, I would walk to the top of the street and be amazed at the time, effort, materials, and technology that went into its construction. It was done for a cost of $1 million. The artificial turf is exquisite and is embedded with tiny rubber chips for safety and resiliency. Most of the preparation for the field involved addressing potential drainage problems. It is 'state of the art'. 
It has amazing lighting for night play, lighted and heated team boxes, a large electronic scoreboard on one end, and a series of bleachers for spectators. The beautiful anodized chain link fence gives ample room on the sidelines. The school property extends way beyond the sidelines so why was the field not built east/west instead of north/south? My letter to the editor of the local paper was published but nobody could answer my question. You see, the football field ends at the goal line on either end of the field with a sturdy chain link fence. There are no end zones!
This is the newly completed playing field next to the High School at the top of our street. In this photo, they are playing soccer, but it was built primarily as a football field as the High School has a great sports program and their football team makes it to the finals every year. 
The field took more than a year to construct and as it progressed, I would walk to the top of the street and be amazed at the time, effort, materials, and technology that went into its construction. It was done for a cost of $1 million. The artificial turf is exquisite and is embedded with tiny rubber chips for safety and resiliency. Most of the preparation for the field involved addressing potential drainage problems. It is 'state of the art'. 
It has amazing lighting for night play, lighted and heated team boxes, a large electronic scoreboard on one end, and a series of bleachers for spectators. The beautiful anodized chain link fence gives ample room on the sidelines. The school property extends way beyond the sidelines so why was the field not built east/west instead of north/south? My letter to the editor of the local paper was published but nobody could answer my question. You see, the football field ends at the goal line on either end of the field with a sturdy chain link fence. There are no end zones! 
3 comments:
That is a truly beautiful field, but no end zones??? What were they thinking.... hmmmm.
Beautiful pictures. Since I don't know anything much about football or most sports, apparently tennis courts are to be built north/south because "it keeps the sun out of the player's eyes!", or so we were told....how we came upon this piece of information? when we questioned the unfinished tennis court in the front of the house we were moving into many years ago...concrete in the wrong direction: East/West.....and so it has stayed to become a place of happiness for other sports, such as tricycle riding, roller blading and road hockey!!
Yes, the east/west thing makes sense, however, the trade-off is no end zones which precludes field goal kicks possibly missed and returned and any kind of a rush into the end zone for a touchdown. Ask Frank. Just read a few minutes ago in the local paper that the true cost of the field was not $1 million but 2. Sort of like buying a BMW with no steering wheel. Something only government would do.
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