The Facts:
The Superdome again will have fresh artificial turf for this fall's football season. The turf used for the 2004 season wasn't worn out, but since the Dome switched to infill-style turf in the middle of the 2003 football season, it has followed the policy of removing the turf in January after the season ends and installing a fresh batch the next summer.
Reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
Dome officials say it would be possible to reuse the old turf but that it would not meet National Football League specifications after being pulled up and then reinstalled. The 2005 turf will be the same model as that used last year -- Momentum, manufactured by Sportexe, a Canadian company that bid about $400,000 less than FieldTurf (the most popular in-fill surface) over three years.
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