Trivia Guy

We need to talk. I had a soccer game last weekend on one of your fields behind Harvard Stadium.  In order to get there, I had to walk past a turf field where the field  hockey team was playing against Princeton.  While passing by I noticed a number of giant water cannons blasting the turf fields with water.  You were watering the turf.  Turf = fake grass.  What the hell?

I asked some of my classmates why you might be doing this. Does Harvard hate the environment?  Do they have too much money? Both? No one had an answer for me.

A couple days later I spotted this article which describes a similar situation at Duke and North Carolina and the similar befuddlement that results.  The major difference between Cambridge, MA and NC?  North Carolina is in the middle of one of its worst droughts ever.  They apparently are going to completely run out of water in about 60 days. So that makes sense. From the article:

After a home game against Maryland this weekend, the Tar Heels will spend the remainder of the season on the road.

Duke, too, will be away more than it’s home.  Those trips, athletics officials say, will allow the teams to conserve water. “We can then be more in compliance with what the community would like.”

Ah. In order to be ‘greener’ we can bus the kids across the country. Way to go.