article_snippet.sent: The bold design of the new £400million stadium, due to be completed for the start of the 2018-19 season, could involve a ‘slide-out’ grass football pitch with an NFL-style synthetic surface housed underneath.
article_snippet.sent: The option of extra-large changing rooms, to accommodate NFL squad sizes that can amount to as many as 70 players at a game, is also being explored by architects.
article_snippet.sent: Tottenham are considering sharing The option of extra-large changing rooms, to accommodate NFL squad sizes that can amount to as many as 70 players at a game new £400m stadium with an NFL franchise .
article_snippet.sent: Indeed officials will be testing logistics when officials stage officials three games at Wembley this autumn, with teams looking at how quickly officials can have officials players back in the USA and ready to play again.
article_snippet.sent: Not least the fact that they have to leave the lowest 5,000 seats empty so that the view of spectators is not restricted by the mass of huge bodies on the touchline.
article_snippet.sent: The modern NFL stadiums make sight-lines for spectators a priority and the new White Hart Lane could overcome the problem that is experienced at the 90,000-seat Wembley by having the artificial pitch at a significantly lower level beneath the moveable grass pitch.
article_snippet.sent: Retractable grass pitches are nothing new in modern stadia design.
article_snippet.sent: England have played on two: at Gelsenkirchen in Germany during the 2006 World Cup and in the Sapporo Dome in Japan four years earlier.
article_snippet.sent: The Gelredome in Holland also has a retractable pitch, as does the University of Phoenix Stadium that hosted this year’s Super Bowl.
article_snippet.sent: The advantage for The modern NFL stadiums is the ability to grow the grass in a more natural environment, outside, away from the shadows of the stands while also having the capacity to stage different events without damaging the playing surface.