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Make football safer with AstroTurf!
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:53 am
Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:53 am
That's what Monsanto said. This is an advertisement from 1967 when the artificial grass movement was gaining tremendous momentum and AstroTurf was just starting to be installed everywhere.
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Posted on 8/13/24 at 1:57 am to Smokey Okie
My late father used to work for Monsanto for many years in St. Louis.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:04 am to TrueLefty
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My late father used to work for Monsanto for many years in St. Louis.
That's nice, TrueLefty. You didn't happen to have artificial turf installed in your yard did you?
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:10 am to Smokey Okie
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My late father used to work for Monsanto for many years in St. Louis.
That's nice, TrueLefty. You didn't happen to have artificial turf installed in your yard did you?
Nope! I don't like the company. It's a bad company. Bayer bought out Monsanto.
This post was edited on 8/13/24 at 2:15 am
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:25 am to TrueLefty
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Nope! I don't like the company. It's a bad company. Bayer bought out Monsanto.
Oh, I see. I suppose your father just didn't give a damn about them being a bad company.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:51 am to Smokey Okie
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Nope! I don't like the company. It's a bad company. Bayer bought out Monsanto.
Oh, I see. I suppose your father just didn't give a damn about them being a bad company.
Monsanto uses weed killer Roundup that many people got sick.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 5:32 am to Smokey Okie
It may have been safer, all around, at the time. Actual field turf and golf course level grass did not exist at the majority of football venues.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 5:55 am to Bamafig
Artificial playing surfaces should be banned in the SEC.
Yes, looking at you tu. With your plastic football, baseball and softball fields.
Yes, looking at you tu. With your plastic football, baseball and softball fields.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 7:51 am to Smokey Okie
...and light up a nice Marlboro or Winston cigarette after the game. Used to love those Riddell cleats though.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 9:10 am to Smokey Okie
It’s really mind blowing to me that it was only replaced in the last 20 years. The Colts and Rams were still playing on that shite in the 2004-2005 season lol.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 9:31 am to TrueLefty
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Monsanto uses weed killer Roundup that many people got sick.
Allegedly.
And I think you mean that they made it, not that they used it.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:10 am to Smokey Okie
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Oh, I see. I suppose your father just didn't give a damn about them being a bad company.
I've worked for some pretty bad companies. They pay better.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:17 am to rebelrouser
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...and light up a nice Marlboro or Winston cigarette after the game. Used to love those Riddell cleats though.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:24 am to Smokey Okie
I always respected auburn, LSU, UGA and Kentucky for not ever installing this shite. I remember several seasons where teams would play maybe two games on real grass. I don’t think it was as dangerous as the field turf stuff they have now but why it was used to begin with baffles me.
As far as Monsanto, thank u 60 minutes for exposing this place back in the 90s by going to the Anniston Alabama plant that was killing everybody around there. My uncle worked there, died. The rate of cancer in towns around Monsanto was 3 times higher than the rest of the state. They were secretly dumping into cold water creek where we swam as kids and we all got cancer.
As far as Monsanto, thank u 60 minutes for exposing this place back in the 90s by going to the Anniston Alabama plant that was killing everybody around there. My uncle worked there, died. The rate of cancer in towns around Monsanto was 3 times higher than the rest of the state. They were secretly dumping into cold water creek where we swam as kids and we all got cancer.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 10:31 am to Bubbles Up
Tennessee has a problem playing on real turf. When UGA put a quick halt to their 4 days of glory they blamed the rain, the crowd noise and the GRASS.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 12:26 pm to twk
Posted on 8/13/24 at 12:26 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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Allegedly.
Dip your hands in round up and let us know how it works out.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 12:43 pm to TrueLefty
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Monsanto uses weed killer Roundup that many people got sick.
A hundred billion million trillion people have died from sugar and its effects; I don't see people crying about sugar companies.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 12:50 pm to twk
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light up a nice Marlboro or Winston cigarette after the game.
Coach Bryant said frick that
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:56 pm to Smokey Okie
I actually played on astroturf once. It wasn't horrible. I did feel like my cleats dug into the turf a bit harder...grabbed it, if you will. It was an outdoor stadium and it had snowed all day. What seemed weird to me was that as the snow melted, the water seemed to seep into our cleats easily. My feet were frozen. I don't know if it was the astroturf or just cheap cleats.
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