“Everything from the grass to the soil is gone,” Nick Sero, head of corporate communications at the stadium, said Friday.
U2 gets the credit/blame for that one. The band’s June 7 concert — they played “The Joshua Tree” in its entirety, and it was fine — did enough damage to the field to necessitate a complete replacement. Typically, only the top layer of the surface would get swapped out.
The plan is to replace the sod between the 35-yard lines in October, then do a full top-layer replacement after the WPIAL championship games in late November, Sero said.
By that point, 16 football games (six Steelers, six Pitt, four WPIAL) will have been played on the surface.
Heinz Field also boasts an upgraded South end zone scoreboard. It’s now 45 percent larger (41 feet high, just over 130 feet wide), courtesy of $3 million worth of Daktronics’ 13HD technology.
“No matter where you sit in the stadium, you’re going to have a clear, crisp angle of the actual gameplay footage,” Sero said.
The board also now offers picture-in-picture, which means you’ll be able to get stats, replays, animations and, of course, advertisements in the middle of gameplay footage.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...ew-scoreboard-daktronics/stories/201708040149
U2 gets the credit/blame for that one. The band’s June 7 concert — they played “The Joshua Tree” in its entirety, and it was fine — did enough damage to the field to necessitate a complete replacement. Typically, only the top layer of the surface would get swapped out.
The plan is to replace the sod between the 35-yard lines in October, then do a full top-layer replacement after the WPIAL championship games in late November, Sero said.
By that point, 16 football games (six Steelers, six Pitt, four WPIAL) will have been played on the surface.
Heinz Field also boasts an upgraded South end zone scoreboard. It’s now 45 percent larger (41 feet high, just over 130 feet wide), courtesy of $3 million worth of Daktronics’ 13HD technology.
“No matter where you sit in the stadium, you’re going to have a clear, crisp angle of the actual gameplay footage,” Sero said.
The board also now offers picture-in-picture, which means you’ll be able to get stats, replays, animations and, of course, advertisements in the middle of gameplay footage.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...ew-scoreboard-daktronics/stories/201708040149
