Northwest's Contribution to the World Cup
While the majority of folks throughout the rural Northwest did about anything they could to avoid tuning into the World Cup soccer matches last week in the end actually it was our three states; that ended up contributing more to ensure the global success of the 2010 FIFA World Cup then any of the other 47 Hi, this is Open Range and I’m your host Susan Allen, after the break more on our regions affiliation with the World Cup. As a professed trend watcher I constantly scan newspapers each day and I noted a common thread. Despite the fact the majority of the U.S. couldn’t care less about professional soccer national newspapers were dedicated countless pages to the World Cup that over the last few weeks most likely ended up starting campfires or lining kitty litters. Is there a global conspiracy theory to force soccer on Americans who yawn at 2-0 scores and prefer their footballs, oval and brown thank you . Yet Washington , Idaho and especially Oregon did have a good World Cup showing as green and accommodating as only NW Turf can be. All of the seventy practice and stadiums were planted in Oregon’s Perennial rye grass and bluegrass not from Kentucky but Idaho and Eastern Washington. In fact 165,000 pounds of seed was shipped from the Northwest to South Africa for a contract that was years in the making. The Word Cup isn’t the only professional venue for Northwest turf. Super Bowls, Rose Bowls and recent Olympics have all been greener thanks to our status in the Northwest of being a world leader in growing grass and were not talking the Mendocino County kind. I’m Susan Allen