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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (30687)	1/16/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Sod for Super Bowl XXXII Harvested and Installed at Qualcomm Stadium PR Newswire - January 16, 1998 05:14 %ENT V%PRN P%PRN SAN DIEGO, Jan 16 /PRNewswire/ -- As soon as the last fan exited Qualcomm Stadium after the Holiday Bowl, West Coast Turf began preparing for the sodding of that stadium's field for Super Bowl XXXII. As typically is the case when it comes to the Super Bowl, no expense is spared to provide the safest and most aesthetically pleasing field for the year's biggest sporting event. While NFL personnel were removing the existing turf which had begun to show the effects of the typical heavy fall schedule, the folks at West Coast Turf, the NFL's source for three out of the last four Super Bowls, were putting on the finishing touches on the new field which was installed during the first week of January. The three acre field, grown in La Quinta, California is a hybrid bermuda grass overseeded with perennial rye. The sod is nearly identical to that grown and installed by West Coast Turf for Super Bowl XXX at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona and Super Bowl XXIX at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida. West Coast Turf produces similar sod for Qualcomm Stadium prior to each baseball season. West Coast Turf is also the sod supplier to 3Com Park in San Francisco, Oakland Coliseum and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Company personnel recently completed a resodding of the center of the field at 3Com Park in preparation for the 49ers' playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings and NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers in January. Though West Coast Turf has made a habit of providing "high profile" sod to prestigious venues, this year's Super Bowl is every bit as important as anything the company has done. "When we shipped sod from California to Florida for Super Bowl XXIX," says Jeff Cole, spokesman for the company, "that was a big deal, but San Diego is in our own backyard and we're going overboard to see everything is done just right. I remember what George Toma (NFL Turf Consultant) said last year: 'We want to give the NFL the best possible field to play on. Not a good field or a great field, but the best field.' And we're going to do all we can to accomplish that." SOURCE West Coast Turf /CONTACT: Jeff Cole of West Coast Turf, 800-447-1840/ /Photo: newscom.com or NewsCom, 305-448-8411/