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Originally Posted by king10
a soccer field is 100 yds long. a canadian football field is 150 yards long. have you seen how many yards are behind bmo fields endlines? 5 at most. you think removing a couple rows of seats would make up for the extra 40 yards? not a chance. both endzone stands would have to be demolished and the road in behind the south stand closed while possibly running out of room at the north stand because of the food building standing in the way
lets not even get started on if they switched back to turf. or if they actually think they can maintain a grass pitch for football and soccer
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Commonwealth Stadium was grass and did double duty for decates, and it's would be much easier to have a stronger grass surface in Toronto than Edmonton, due to Edmonton's harsher and longer winters.
If they do it right with retractable endzone seating, I think it can be done satisfactorily. It will probably cost a fair bit to switch it, but definitely cheaper than building new (especially with no games to get help with the cost).
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