Why the football field is stripy?

Question

Having almost forcedly been plunged into all-over Football World Cup Histeria, I have first started wondering why actually the football field is made of two colors grass? Is it for simple esthetic reasons?

Answer 1

It is to help with the offside calls.

As noted by at least one, usually a lot of fields use different designs for purely aesthetic reasons, including circles, diamonds, etc. As you've noticed, there has been a marked lack of variety in the field designs for the World Cup. Only the striped patterns are used.

Answer 2

The stripes are caused by the roller on the lawn mower. It rolls the blades of grass over one way when mowing in a direction then rolls the grass blades over the other way when mowing in the opposite direction causing a stripped affect.

Answer 3

Have you ever mowed a lawn? when the mower goes over the grass in one direction, the grass leans one way and reflects a different shade of green than when you go over it the other way. It helps call offsides too.

Answer 4

I don't think it's colors of grass, but 2 directions of mowing the grass.

Answer 5

It is done for purely aesthetics reasons, some are done in stright lines other in concentric circles, and is definitely not natural, UNLESS it's those crop circle people back again !!! :-0

Answer 6

it is done to assist the assistant refrees to call offsides

the assistant refrees call the offsides incase the opponents sneak it with the help of horizontal lines

Answer 7

I think its mainly to assist linesmen in off-side calls, guess it looks pretty cool too.

Answer 8

it is natural.