Some just wander through life trying to find out the answers to: why is the sky blue?...where do babies come from?...Will we be able to breath underwater in the year 2020?.....How did the world become the world?....and why in the name of... is the turf blue @ Boise State U? Well look no further all of life's mysterious answer's are right below...or @ least one of them...
The mighty Broncos of Boise State University play on the world's only radical, other-worldly blue field. WHY??? The quality of color selection was affirmed by Mother Nature shortly after its installation in 1986 when passing flocks of migrating geese repeatedly landed in accidental mass suicides, apparently mistaking the field for a beautiful blue lake. Shortly thereafter the grounds keepers began covering the field when not in use, to prevent the aforementioned bird crash deaths and grisly clean-up efforts. No matter how many geese had to die, removing the beloved "Smurf Turf" was never considered. It was reinstalled in 1996, then replaced with identically colored AstroPlay synthetic grass in 2002.
With Smurf Turf in place, the Boise State football program has enjoyed a meteoric rise to dominance, ascending from the I-AA Big Sky conference to I-A superiority in the Western Athletic Conference in just eight short years -- a huge achievement. Over the last three years, Boise State has gone 33-6 -- 12-1 and 13-1 in the last two seasons -- averaging 42 points per contest. That's better than all three of the most recent National Champions USC (29-9), Ohio State (32-7), and LSU (31-9). Argue all you want that Boise State is in a weak conference. It's trash talk coming from BCS school riff-raff afraid to lose to a mid-major