New goal posts at Brodstone Memorial Field
Kent Kottmeyer and members of the building maintenance staff at Superior Schools were busy Tuesday as they assembled the new portable goal posts at Brodstone Memorial Field, The posts are mounted on a trailer and can be moved to different field positions for practice as well as regular games. They can be used in different field configurations such as 6-man, 8-man and 11-man football, all of which have different length fields.
There will be a different look in the end zones of Superior's Brodstone Memorial Field when the Wildcats take the field for their season ending game against McCool Junction, Friday, Oct. 7.
Superior moved down to 8-man football this season. The field for the 8-man game is 80 yards long rather than the traditional 100 yards for the 11-man game. The goal posts need to be moved in tocompensate for the difference. The solution, as Superior has fluctuated between 8-man and 11-man, is portable goal posts.
This piece of equipment can be moved to any position on the field with relative ease. Should the kicker want to practice off to the side, the posts can be, without a great deal of difficulty, be moved.
The new posts were ordered before the season began but have just now arrived.
The trailer component was delivered first. A truck delivered three pallets of parts to complete the set up Monday. The posts and uprights are attached to a mechanism on the trailer. The uprights stay in an upright but lowered state. When they are needed, a winch mounted on the trailer tongue is used to raise the uprights to the regulation height.
Though they are called portable, Kent Kottmeyer, Superior Schools grounds and maintenance supervisor, points out the posts cannot be lowered from their lowest upright position. Moving them anywhere there are obstacles such as overhead wires, tree limbs or other obstructions is not possible. With the arrival of the new posts, it appears the old goal posts will soon be removed. He also noted it took more than three hours to assemble one unit. Perhaps they should retain the original posts for an impromptu goal post tearing down affair to raise funds for field improvements. Just a thought.
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