Stadium Discussion

Don't think so, because if there's a drain, then all those rubber pellets would wash away too. With no drain, any spray would collect & pool, plus, would you really want to be playing on a surface treated with antiseptic chemicals on a regular basis - there'd be a residual amount of it coming in contact with your skin???

There has to be a way to wash those surfaces. They paint and erase lines all the time.
 
This says you use an anti-septic cleaning only annually for indoor fields:

https://fieldturf.com/workspace/upl...ochure_maintenance-guidelines_apr2017_006.pdf
Annual cleaning leaves a lot of time for bacteria to grow.

Here are a few studies by researchers at Penn State. I’d trust them over recommendations by the turf manufactures.

https://plantscience.psu.edu/research/centers/ssrc/documents/staph-survival-on-synthetic-turf.pdf

https://plantscience.psu.edu/research/centers/ssrc/documents/staph-survey

Edit: lots of variables that go into it, like the amount of UV light (good), how recently played on (bad), to the temp (cool/dry good) - but do places run the AC non-stop between events, to how well uniforms are washed (another article on Colgate U and what they’ve ended up doing), and whether skin is exposed and/or open cuts/abrasions.

That last variable is troubling for soccer. The NFL has recently had MRSA issues that forced a few players to retire, and yet they have uniforms that cover way more exposed skin, whereas with soccer and slide tackles, there’s a chunk of leg fully primed for burns and subsequent exposure. Makes sense why some players pull their socks above their knees to where the shorts/compression shorts extent to.
 
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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/articl...ail-out-bondholders-but-not-taxpayers-for-bad

Weak paywall. I think you get one article a month totally unobstructed, and a few more if you sign up but no cost.

There's basically one salient fact in the article, which is that the proposed deal would pay the garage company enough to pay off the bondholders but not the city. While the headline makes it appear the NYCFC deal would be to blame, the article is clear that the fault lies in the existing deal terms among the city, garage corp., and bondholders (though it sort of tries to spin it as being a problem with this deal). Basically, the debts that the garage corp owes to the city is subordinated to the debt it owes the bondholders. The only "fault" of the NYCFC deal is it would be enough to pay only one of them. The new deal has no say or effect on who gets the proceeds of money paid to the garage owner.
The original deal the city made with the Yankees and the garage corp. was a bad deal, but this deal is blameless.
 
Annual cleaning leaves a lot of time for bacteria to grow.

Here are a few studies by researchers at Penn State. I’d trust them over recommendations by the turf manufactures.

https://plantscience.psu.edu/research/centers/ssrc/documents/staph-survival-on-synthetic-turf.pdf

https://plantscience.psu.edu/research/centers/ssrc/documents/staph-survey

Edit: lots of variables that go into it, like the amount of UV light (good), how recently played on (bad), to the temp (cool/dry good) - but do places run the AC non-stop between events, to how well uniforms are washed (another article on Colgate U and what they’ve ended up doing), and whether skin is exposed and/or open cuts/abrasions.

That last variable is troubling for soccer. The NFL has recently had MRSA issues that forced a few players to retire, and yet they have uniforms that cover way more exposed skin, whereas with soccer and slide tackles, there’s a chunk of leg fully primed for burns and subsequent exposure. Makes sense why some players pull their socks above their knees to where the shorts/compression shorts extent to.
I thought the NFL MRSA issues were from locker room cleanliness, not turf.

Scary if it's turf.
 
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I thought the NFL MRSA issues were from locker room cleanliness, not turf.

Scary if it's turf.
They’ve had both.

On a more personal note, last year I played in a rec league using the AstroTurf field down on Grand Street in china town and two different teammates got MRSA on different nights. Granted, the parks department definitely doesn’t do the upkeep they should, but it rains enough that you’d think it’d wash away, and daytime temps in the sun should be enough to also kill it.
 
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I hope we build it in the iron triangle and NYCFC tells the city to fuck Off with their bankrupt garages. And I hope we tell these socialist fucks looking for hand outs to go play in traffic.

Were you flying back from Atlanta on Thursday after the All-Star game in an exit row of a Delta flight and watching the movie Atlas Shrugged?
 
Watched the match from home tonight, and while the camera angle is always atrocious, that wasn’t the worst part of the stadium experience.... seeing all of the marketing ads slapped on every surface is distracting - I can’t imagine NYCFC shares all of the same sponsors with the Yankees, so it’d be nicer and more visually pleasing if the club covers up any sponsor boards that are Yankee-only. Either make them all black or black with the NYCFC logo so that they help to mute the surroundings a bit. Visually, it was just too frenetic and chaotic.
 
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I hope we build it in the iron triangle and NYCFC tells the city to fuck Off with their bankrupt garages. And I hope we tell these socialist fucks looking for hand outs to go play in traffic.


Take no public offering. Make no public offering. Privately finance the whole project and keep politics out of the project (relatively speaking). I’ll take it but will never happen.