David Webb Chaney, RIP
Somehow, I missed the news early earlier this month that David Webb Chaney had passed away.
Chaney led the team that developed "Astroturf" (one of the innovations of the Astrodome "back in the day").
There's no doubt it was a fine technological development, and even seemed like a great idea at the time. Now that we've retired so many of the awful "multipurpose" stadiums it found its way into (not to mention athletes with blown out knees and turf toe), maybe we can concede it wasn't such a great idea. Who knew?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/26/04 07:30 | Sports | Technorati
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Astroturf itself was an unmitigated disaster both for the game and for the athletes health. It was an innovation that (from what I understand) is being better achieved these days with better synthetic grass, which should count for something.
Posted by R. Alex @ 13:52 on 07/26/04
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