Editing Lambeau Field (section)

==="The Frozen Tundra"===
[[Image:Lambeau Field bowl.jpg|thumb|right|An empty Lambeau Field.]]
The stadium's nickname was spawned by the [[1967 NFL Championship Game|Ice Bowl]] game between the Packers and the [[1967 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]], played on December 31, 1967. The game was played in temperatures of {{convert|-15|F}} with sharp winds. Journalist [[Tex Maule]] associated Lambeau Field with the term ''[[tundra]]'' in his article summarizing the game in ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.<ref name="The Old Pro">{{cite magazine |title=The old pro goes in for six |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1968/01/08/542925/the-old-pro-goes-in-for-six |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Maule |first=Tex |author-link=Tex Maule |date=January 8, 1968 |page=10 |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309042554/http://www.si.com/vault/1968/01/08/542925/the-old-pro-goes-in-for-six |url-status=live }}</ref>

The nickname "the frozen tundra" is believed to originate from ''The Greatest Challenge'', the Packers' authorized version of the highlight film written by [[Steve Sabol]].<ref name="Davis, 2008, p. 159.">Davis, 2008, p. 159.</ref> In the Cowboys' authorized version of the highlight film, ''A Chilling Championship'', also written by Sabol, [[Bill Woodson]] used the term "the frozen tundra" when narrating the film to describe Lambeau Field.<ref name="Davis, 2008, p. 159." /><ref name="Woodson Was First With 'Frozen Tundra'">{{cite web|title=Woodson Was First With 'Frozen Tundra'|url=http://www.pressboxonline.com/story.cfm?id=6428|work=Press Box Online|access-date=April 4, 2011|archive-date=July 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021230/http://www.pressboxonline.com/story.cfm?id=6428|url-status=live}}</ref> Prior to the [[1967 Green Bay Packers season|1967 season]], an [[under-soil heating|underground electric heating]] system had been installed, but it was not able to counter the effects of the cold front that hit Green Bay at the onset of the Ice Bowl game. The field had been covered overnight with the heater on, but when the cover was removed in the sub-zero cold, the moisture atop the grass flash-froze.<ref name="Branch, John">{{cite news| title=Tenderizing the Tundra With Some Light and Heat| first=John| last=Branch| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/sports/football/tenderizing-the-packers-tundra-with-light-and-heat.html| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=January 13, 2012| access-date=January 13, 2012| archive-date=January 14, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114133333/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/sports/football/tenderizing-the-packers-tundra-with-light-and-heat.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

The underground heating and drainage system was redone in [[1997 Green Bay Packers season|1997]], with a system of pipes filled with a solution including antifreeze replacing the electric coils. After the [[2006 Green Bay Packers season|2006 season]], the surface, heating, and drainage system was replaced. From 2007 until 2018, the playing surface used the [[Desso GrassMaster]] system, which has synthetic fibers woven into the traditional [[Kentucky bluegrass]] sod.<ref name=thnwgisk>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tuQcAAAAIBAJ&pg=6137%2C5377136 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |last=McGinn |first=Bob |title=Team hopes new ground isn't shaky |date=March 18, 2007 |page=12C }}{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lambeau Field Updates Include a New Surface|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2690426|work=[[ESPN]]|date=December 7, 2006|access-date=August 9, 2013|archive-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626090126/http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2690426|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/29409724.html|title=Grass is greener: Lambeau surface bounces back|last=Nickel|first=Lori|date=June 2, 2008|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel| access-date=October 3, 2015|url-status=dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151005003742/http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/29409724.html|archive-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> In 2018, the Grassmaster surface was replaced with polyethylene-based SIS Grass.<ref name=sisgrass>{{cite web|title=New turf ready to welcome Packers into 2018 season|url=https://www.packers.com/news/new-turf-ready-to-welcome-packers-into-2018-season|publisher=Green Bay Packers|access-date=August 28, 2019|archive-date=October 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016200515/https://www.packers.com/news/new-turf-ready-to-welcome-packers-into-2018-season|url-status=live}}</ref>  Even the new video boards, installed in [[2004 NFL season|2004]], have been influenced by the field's nickname, being called "Tundra Vision". These video displays measure more than {{convert|25|ft|m}} high by {{convert|46|ft|m}} wide.<ref name=displays>{{cite web|title=Lambeau Field, Stadium Facts|url=http://www.lambeaufield.com/stadium_info/history/|publisher=Green Bay Packers|access-date=August 9, 2013|archive-date=July 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717044740/http://www.lambeaufield.com/stadium_info/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
An artificial lighting system, based on technology used in Dutch rose-growing greenhouses, was tested in [[2010 Green Bay Packers season|2010]] and purchased for use in the [[2011 Green Bay Packers season|2011 season]]. It operates 24 hours a day from October to early December to extend the growing season for the field's grass. The system is also used in some soccer stadiums where shade from stands and partial roofs are a problem for the turf, not the cold and short growing season found in Green Bay.<ref name="Branch, John"/>