Texas Switches From Grass to Field Turf

What will Bevo eat while he does nothing on the sidelines now? Pelletized rubber? Texas' football team has been among the righteous, playing football on grass from 1996 until this week, as the program has decided to switch to FieldTurf in time for the 2009 season. Bummer.

Artificial fields have come a long way over the years and FieldTurf appears to be the best of the bunch, but color us a little sad. They're not exactly the cheapest investment around, but the savings is made up over time with less maintenance and replacement costs than grass and allows a venue to host multiple events without tearing up the turf and ruining it for the football team.

It's Texas' call and their program is swimming in money screaming to be spent, but like with domed stadia, artificial turf removes a little bit of soul from the game. That's their prerogative but here's a tiny, ineffective little boo from one corner of FanHouse. There won't be any "Hook 'Em Horns!" coming from me on this one.

The press release on this states that Texas is the fifth program in the recently wild and wacky Big 12 to go FieldTurf on us - after Nebraska, Kansas State, Missouri and Texas Tech.

We're guessing Bevo cast the only nay vote.