Ooooh...controversial...

[TJ Lambini]

Live from Vegas...

“This is the worst field I have ever seen,” commented Chris LaSoya after walking the fields with his team. Many players felt the uneven, rocky fields would pose a threat to a player’s safety. “I hope Jerry has deep pockets,” one player joked, “when I break my leg I’m gunna sue!”


Wussy boys!

peace

 

[acsik]

Hah they should've sticked with the Milleneum series.

 

[Al Woods]

Hmmmmm

You'd think their super cool (??) signature shoes would enable them to simply power their way over ANY terrain. If any of 'em actually wore 'em that is.

Couldn't be arsed busting a leg or something though, imagine not being able to play for aaaaages. :

 

[aree]

I guess Lasoya and his team should be gratefull we were not there. We would have eaten them alive. Now....ehm that's the rocks off course.

Some scratches on your elbows and knees can be annoying, but let's take a look at the following hypothetical scenario:

On 01-10-2002 a prestigious tournament is held in Russia. It has a reverberating name: The Murmansk Indoor Memorial 2002. To your suprise the playing fields consist of some decommisioned nuclear submarines. Would you attend?

Buddha 4
Yup, I'm alive

 

[Al Woods]

Decommissioned?

That's no fun, they need to be LIVE just for that added danger bonus of possibly getting your ass nuked.

Buddha 4, would you play in Belgium??

 

[aree]

You are amazing Woody, you really are. After my first post you've allready checked my brains out. Are you some kind of psyker?

I would any day play in a russian sub, but challenging me to play in Belgium is really wicked. You know what trappist is? I do, I crave for it. The imperial ookaze from my captain, Buddha 3, says that someday I will play in Belgium. Rumours say he's allready welding a cage to bring me in.

Buddha 4
Are your therapeutic sessions allways like this?

 

[Buddha 3]

On dear God....another one has found the way to the internet....well, there goes the neighborhood.

As far as playing fields are concerned, it ain't nice to get thinly sliced when you slide into your primary, that's why I play back.
Seriously though, I'd play almost anything, but then again I once played american footy on a field that was shared with a baseball team and still had the gravel pitching mount in it. Guess where i decided to make a nice tackle...? (ouch)
Nice, level grass is preferable, but hey, most of us oldtimers started in the woods where you had the added danger of getting impaled by rogue twigs and suchlike. So anything with Sup'Air on is cool with me. Hot, molten lava anyone?

 

[TJ Lambini]

Exactly

fields used to have cliffs on em back in tha day, and now they're scared of a few pebbles...

'Momma, I ain't playing unless the gras is exactly 0.5" high and tha surface is perfectly flat...And people claim it's an extreme sport!

hA!

 

[aree]

Aye, aye Captain

Like my shots, my point went astray.

To say something meaningfull on LaSoya's quote, we need more info about the fields in Vegas. What were the rocks like?
Pebbles? LaSoya is a wussy. Razor sharp cliffs? LaSoya is my hero

Actually I tried something to say with the russian sub analogy. Field owners and Tournament organisers do have a responsability to the wellness of players in relation to the quality of the playing field. A tournament organiser organising an indoor tournament in a radiating russian sub should be impaled on one of it's nuclear missiles and shot straight to Pluto.

Mr. Lambini could you tell us more about the condition of the playing fields in Vegas? That would give this little discussion more substance.

Buddha 4

 

[aree]

Oh boy I really need to type faster, or is this Lambini also a mind reader.

Buddha 4