Jump to navigation Jump to search This non-traditional chris a list of college football venues with non-traditional field colors. Traditionally, college football is played on grass fields.
It is common for the end zones to be painted a different color, but as of the 2015 season only seven programs have their field color other than the traditional green. Conference affiliations are current for the upcoming 2018 college football season. Nicknamed “The Blue” and “Smurf Turf”. In 2011, the Mountain West Conference banned Boise from wearing their all-blue uniforms during home conference games, after complaints from other Mountain West coaches that it was an unfair advantage. New Haven and Boise State reached an agreement in 2009 to license the use of Boise State’s trademark blue field.
New Haven calls their field a “blue and yellow” field as part of the agreement. Granted special permission and an international trademark from Boise State to use blue turf. Other programs outside of college football have non-traditional colors. Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, Missouri has blue turf with yellow sidelines surrounded by a red track. The National Football League has prohibited the use of non-traditional field colors without league permission since 2011, and no team in the league has ever attempted doing so.
Eastern Washington’s Roos Field has a distinctive bright red color. Estes Stadium alternates purple and gray. Commerce, Texas’s Memorial Stadium, while using a green base, uses a large massive logo that colors much of the field gold. The blue and yellow field of northern Alaska’s Barrow High School is also the northernmost American football field in the world. Lindenwood University-Belleville Football Field turf laid down”. Boise State Banned From Wearing Blue Uniforms On Smurf Turf”.
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