How crews keep Dallas Stadium's indoor grass at an elite level

Maintaining peak-level indoor grass at Dallas Stadium requires special lighting, long hours of maintenance, and frequent mowing.Keeping the Pitch in Peak ConditionNow that Dallas Stadium is about halfway through hosting World Cup matches, FOX 4’s Steven Dial checked in with the pitch manager to see how everything is going.FIFA Pitch Manager Ian Craig said he thinks it’s holding up really well. But, he said maintaining the live grass requires a lot of work."A lot of hard work, long hours. We've got to do a lot of repair work. We got to do a lot of preparation work beforehand. You know, the guys are in. Long after the stadium bowl's empty, we're cleaning up any debris, we're fixing any divots, we're bringing the lights back down," he said.Crews cut the grass two or three times on match days. Craig said that’s because it grows so much."The players want it at a certain height to be able to do their thing to the highest level, so we've got to make sure that we can keep the grass at that lev