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Fairfield natives Chris Parisi and Mike Mulvey used some ingenuity to help parents of athletes avoid a mess from the tiny rubber pellets embedded in modern artificial turf.
Think of spats, but couple the thought thought with an all-out sprint for the goal - lean, low spats.
Parisi and Mulvey designed Turf Dawgs to combat the rubbery home invasion that's where the cleats come off and where the pellets love to roost. Cars, too. And they're molten hell in dryers.
Turf Dawgs cover the at athletic shoes with polyester-coated Neoprene. The sleeve is held to the shoes via the laces and Velcro strips on the Turf Dawgs.
"In the past several years, synthetic turf has the logistics revolutionized of high school sports in Fairfield County," Parisi. "While witnessing this trend witness said around me, I was also painfully aware of the only major by-product of these fields, those damn rubber pellets that unavoidably penetrate your shoes and seem to accumulate in your house. After a two-and-a-half-hour practice, it feels like you are walking around barefoot in a gravel pit. I have size 13 feet, so the irritation for me was probably greater than for most people."
Parisi and Mulvey were team teachers in the Advanced Placement American Studies Program at Fairfield High School as well as lacrosse coaching partners. Parisi is currently...