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Eastern Michigan (please come to our home games!)

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ScriptOhio

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Eastern Michigan will take a page out of the Boise State playbook this season, but that play will not be a Statue of Liberty to fuel an upset in a major bowl game. Instead, Eastern Michigan will play on a non-traditionally colored field this fall. Today the Eagles unveiled plans for a brand new gray field at Rynearson Stadium.

You read that correctly. In a world of flashy uniforms and HD video, Eastern Michigan is embracing a more monochromatic field color and running with it. The school is calling it “The Factory,” which may be a reference to the hard work attitude the program will try to adopt moving forward.

Boise State is famous for its blue turf. The school also owns the trademark to any non-green playing surface, which means Eastern Michigan had to run this idea by Boise State University. Boise State has denied other schools the chance to install a blue field, but the school is generally pretty accepting of other non-traditional field colors. Will a gray playing field be the key to turning Eastern Michigan football around? Eh, probably not, but at least we are talking about the Eagles in mid-June. That’s something, right?

At least it should be easier on the eyes for those watching an EMU game on TV, compared to a Boise State or Eastern Washington home game.

Etire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...action-coming-to-eastern-michigans-new-field/
 
ScriptOhio said:
Boise State is famous for its blue turf. The school also owns the trademark to any non-green playing surface, which means Eastern Michigan had to run this idea by Boise State University. Boise State has denied other schools the chance to install a blue field, but the school is generally pretty accepting of other non-traditional field colors.
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You can trademark not only the color of your turf, but ALL colors that aren't green? That's crazy.
 
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Zurp said:
You can trademark not only the color of your turf, but ALL colors that aren't green? That's crazy.
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Re: Boise State has denied other schools the chance to install a blue field, but the school is generally pretty accepting of other non-traditional field colors.

I was surprised to know of Boise's trademark too. Doesn't seem right that you can trademark a football field, in any color. I read New Haven and Boise State reached an agreement in 2009 to license the use of Boise State's trademark blue field. New Haven calls their field a "blue and yellow" field as part of the agreement.
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Now we have blue, red, purple and gray, and just gray

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Is that stadium's turf actually Scarlet & Gray?

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No the Lindenwood University - Belleville (NAIA school) is supposed to be red and gray.
 
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I'm assuming they have new turf from when I was in college, but Eastern had the worst field I've ever played on. You could have returfed it with Ann Arbor's excess vagina skin and it would have been better than the concrete/sand/green burlap they had back in the 90's.
 
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exhawg said:
I'm assuming they have new turf from when I was in college, but Eastern had the worst field I've ever played on. You could have returfed it with Ann Arbor's excess vagina skin and it would have been better than the concrete/sand/green burlap they had back in the 90's.
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I had the opportunity to be on the field a few times when Batch was there. I remember thinking that this is some high grade mini-golf turf. :lol:

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Large empty spaces painted grey and white seem to be pretty popular up there

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26,000 students annually.
6,000 on campus.
Goes hand-in-hand that the commuter nature of the school doesn't really pack the house. :biggrin:

The liveliest I ever saw the campus was during the 1995-96 Basketball season. Earl Boykins and crew kicked some serious ass that year*.

*... nothing to do with the CFB team. :wink:
 
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