((HT: WGNO-TV New Orleans))
Those of us at OSG HQ have been on the field at the Citrus Bowl complex in Orlando. And as Brother Phil has duly noted: it's an old and crappy building with an old and crappy grass field for a playing surface...
When you play two bowl games on that same old and crappy grass field, something like this is due to happen eventually.
The Miami-Wisconsin game was just as bad- just not seen by as many sets of eyes. And the rain that happened between the time that game was completed and the LSU-Penn State game was set to play was somewhat biblical in nature.
That, combined with the idea of re-seeding the old and crappy playing surface back on the 19th, created one of the worst old and crappy grass surfaces in recent memory.
And LSU and Penn State got to play on it...
The HQ is sure they were thrilled to be there up until the point of actually playing ON the field in question...
Ed Daniels probably messed up some nice shoes standing on the Citrus Bowl turf...
The Citrus Bowl Committee really should look in to the idea of trading grass for turf considering the joint hosted eight high school football championship games and two bowl games in the month of December.
Mike Bianchi's column in the Orlando Sentinel lays the whole issue out once and for all...
Brings new meaning to "getting stuck in the mud" or the whole "mud bogging" thing, doesn't it...???
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