PHILADELPHIA – The couch was old and worn, which is why someone upstairs wanted to discard it. So the grounds crew – the gang who helped grow the fake grass at Veterans Stadium – helped get it to the dumpster. They agreed that the couch was ugly.
“It wasn’t something I would put in my house,” said Jody Boon, 68.
But it certainly was not trash. The crew pivoted, carrying the couch downstairs to its office in the bowels of the stadium…