The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been dealing with heavy rainfall that led to flash flooding the last two days and it’s wreaking havoc on at least one local college football stadium’s turf.
While daily rainfall records have been broken over the last two days in the region, the field inside SMU’s Gerald J. Ford Stadium has been hit particularly hard and appears to have caused some kind of damage underneath the turf. A photo from Dallas Texas TV appears to show a mound of water underneath the football field at one of the 15-yard-lines.
https://twitter.com/DallasTexasTV/status/1561823274140680194
While that might remind some people of a baseball mound, that’s not normal for a football field. According to The Athletic’s Chris Vannini, SMU officials have said they’ll wait until the rain ends before sending a turf company in to find out what’s happening and how to fix it.
The good news for the Mustangs is that they’ve got some time before they’ll need the field to be football-ready. SMU travels to play North Texas on the road to open the season on Saturday, September 3. Their first home game of the season comes Saturday, September 10 when they host Lamar.
While we wait to see what other issues the rains might cause in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, the college football world had some reactions to that strange site in SMU’s stadium.
The next season of Stranger Things. https://t.co/d6gxNFIAKl
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) August 22, 2022
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