It’s been three long days with little sleep for BMO Field head groundskeeper Robert Heggie and his crew.
The team has worked around the clock on converting the stadium’s playing surface from a football gridiron, for Sunday’s Grey Cup, to a soccer pitch, for the second leg of Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference between Toronto FC and Montreal Impact.
In the first 36 hours, Heggie said, crew members took one four-hour nap break. Some went home to bed; others crashed in less comfortable places, like the stadium’s suites or on tarps in its groundskeeping shop.
“It was just kind of wherever you can find a soft place,” he laughed.