[Dane]

Astro-turf goes the way of the buggy whip. Another icon of the 70's disappears.

[freedombird]

Another icon of the 70's disappears

Now if Kerry would just do the same.........

[Jack Wilson]

Did Clinton junk his pickup truck?

[jellybean]

The makers of AstroTurf have filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection and reportedly will soon go out of business.

Apparently demand dropped off after Bill Clinton sold his El Camino...

[blackdog]

Oh my! What will white trash around the great American landscape use on their front porches without "Astroturf"?

I'm buying a whole bunch up now, so that I'll have it for my flocks of pink flamingoes. They will stand on nothing else.

[Paleo Conservative]

So what is Bill Clinton going to put in the back of his El Camino now?

[Yo-Yo]

Speaking at a General Motors plant in Shreveport, La., Clinton talked about that pickup back in Arkansas. "When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."

End of an era indeed.

[hobbes1]

Astroturf? You know who's responsible for that, don't you?! The Jews! Ah, the Jews hate grass. They always have, they always will.

Not that there is anything wrong with that....!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

It was all over when they couldn't get the contract for Joe Biden's head.

[thesummerwind]

Makers of Astro-Turf Going Out of Business

Well, great!

If it weren't for Astroturf, Pete Rose would have actually never been considered for any accolades or The Hall of Fame!

Punkely, banjo-hitter, slimeball, gambling weenie, Pete Rose had so many of his dribblers up into the outfield gaps turned from regular singles into doubles and triples because of Astroturf!

Far out!

Pete, you and Astroturf are PAST TENSE!!!!!

[Monty22]

"AstroTurf was developed for the Astrodome in 1966 by the Monstanto Company. S-R-I bought AstroTurf Industries in 1994 from the bankrupt Balsam Corporation in Saint Louis"

Tossed around like a hot potato. Doomed..

[hchutch]

What a shame. Artificial turf was a nice thing for baseball, albeit not as good as the designated hitter.

[Wright is right!]

There are other companies that make an artificial turf playing-field surface - but not by the trade name of AstroTurf. I b'lieve the field in Tejas Stadium in Irving is made by one such company. There will always be a market for the stuff...

Michael

[PogySailor]

Because this stuff is much better.

[DeaconRed]

"Makers of Astro-Turf Going Out of Business"

Headline should read:
Makers of Astro-Turf Going Out of Business George Bush found to be the reason. He sent the company to India and it went to HECK in a hand basket.

[Benrand]

The stuff in Three Rivers was wierd. If you walked on it for any distance, your feet would actually get hot, even on a cold day. I marched on it once. That stuff was NASTY.

[Khurkris]

To paraphrase Dandy Don Meridith:

"Bye Bye Fuzzy Concrete!"

[bootyist-monk]

How many careers have been ended because someone tried to save a few bucks on gardeners? Natural turf plays better, looks better and causes less injuries. Be gone, foul plastic faux grass.

[KevinDavis]

It is GW fault. He hsould have done something about it.

[ZinGirl]

darn....and I just bought an astroturf mower on-line....I shoulda known something was up.

[NeoCaveman]

"Makers of Astro-Turf Going Out of Business"

Damn cheap foreign imports :-)