Word: astroturfed
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...place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide by 26 ft. high, suspended from a 75-ton gondola, which afford the farthest-out viewer in the cheapest, loftiest seat a closeup of a cheerleader or an instant replay...
...Penn has the capability of knocking Brown off its pedestal. The Quakers play especially good ball on their home astroturf, and so far this year they have been virtually living in their opponents' nets...
...Cosmos, the Chinese tied the first game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial, and the Chinese players eagerly pumped their visitors about AstroTurf and the height of buildings in Manhattan. The curious Chinese will soon find out for themselves. They arrive for a five-game U.S. tour next week and are scheduled to play the Cosmos Oct. 8 on the AstroTurf at Giants Stadium...
Saturday, November 27: "All the color and excitement of college football" seems all a dull astroturf green now as you enter the stage of "Spectator Degeneracy." The blank expression on the face, intermittant pulse beats, and visible post-nasal drip characterize your stuporous countenance. Penn State may beat Pittsburgh, and Notre Dame may wallop USC, but there's no bigger upset now than your stomach, as two-day old stuffing settles like a universal gym in the ol' labonza...
...those Reds! First they took the American League's designated hitter rule, which is about as foreign to National League playing fields as cows grazing on astroturf, and felt right at home with it. Dan Driessen's single-handed derailment of New York in Game Two is example enough...