Endzone Question

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After looking at the You Tube vid of 1992 UT v Fla game, I had forgotten that at one time the endzones were completely checker board orange/white. Anyone remember why we went to the style we have now that is the checker board with a green boarder? Hate it.
 
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I like the green boarder. Doesn't bother me. I think the endzone was fully checkered when it was turf.
 
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hadnt thought of that but you might be right about the turf. I like the full checker board because if you're scoring, there's no doubt youre in orange whether you're a Vol or a visitor.
 
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I can't answer your question, but I definitely agree with you. I liked it much better when the whole endzone was checkerboard.

I do know that it changed when they went from the artificial turf to the natural turf. I just don't know why.
 
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I believe now the endzones cannot have anything directly touching the boundary line (goaline and out of bounds side and back). So we have the green "boarder" around the checkerboard
 
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#8
The endzones weren't checkerboard when the field was turf. That was an old tradition which was revived when the field went to natural grass.
 
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PayingUTKTuition said:
The endzones weren't checkerboard when the field was turf. That was an old tradition which was revived when the field went to natural grass.
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We had turf in '92 and there were checkerboard endzones. They were solid orange where the unpainted grass is now. I agree with YankeeVol, as I like the way they look now. I thought the orange was too much paint. I will say that I would prefer if they painted the 3 yard strip that runs along the sidelines orange. I don't think the white looks good at all.
 
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The answer is that they were brought back in 1989. I did remember the field without the checkerboards. I was wrong about when they were brought back.
 
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cubvol said:
I believe now the endzones cannot have anything directly touching the boundary line (goaline and out of bounds side and back). So we have the green "boarder" around the checkerboard
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Thats not so much of a rule anymore, it was really more of a suggestion at the time, anyway. But there are a couple of other reasons that the orange border is gone.

First, the paint is extremely toxic on the grass. If the entire endzone is painted, they would have to re-sod the entire endzone after the year instead of the spot remediation that they use now. It's also a hell of a lot of paint.

Second, when the checkerboards were first introduced in the 60s, it had the green border that it has now. Dickey preferred the original look all along, but at that time, the colored turf came in sections, and it was alot cheaper to order 10-yard Orange sections with white squares inlaid than to have a green section and either paint once a year or have the orange and white sections inlaid. When we went back to grass, the traditional look returned.
 
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