Minnesota Vikings eliminate frozen field with hydronic heating system
Cold weather and football just seem to go together, but frozen fields have a tendency to draw complaints, especially from NFL players who know that a frozen field is akin to a slab of concrete. That put the Minnesota Vikings between a rock and a hard place when it came to relocating to TCF Bank Stadium (home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers) for the 2014 and 2015 NFL seasons.
Some changes were required before the stadium was ready for NFL play — among them was the installation of a new hydronic heating system, complete with 38 miles of Aquatherm Blue Pipe®, to keep the turf field from freezing.