DOES TEMPORARY GRASS FIELD FIT THE BILL IN FOR GIANTS, JETS?

          Tomorrow's Jets-Giants preseason game at Giants Stadium
     will be played on a "temporary grass field," and the teams
     are "at odds over whether to make the grass the permanent
     playing surface" next year, according to Bill Pennington of
     the N.Y. TIMES.  Jets coach Bill Parcells, who "has not
     given his qualified support" for a grass field: "Someone has
     got to convince me you can play 26 games on grass in one
     year.  As [Jets President] Steve Gutman says: 'Good grass is
     good, but bad grass is no good.'"  However, Giants coach Jim
     Fassel and Exec VP John Mara "are eager to make grass the
     year-round playing surface."  Giants co-Owner Wellington
     Mara said that "if the grass field were a race horse, it
     would be `leading at the pole.'"  But Gutman adds, "It's an
     ongoing process.  We have to talk about it.  We haven't had
     the kind of meeting yet that allows us to have all the
     information to make a decision" (N.Y. TIMES, 8/27).