FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Major League Soccer's New England Revolution postponed their March 7 home opener against the Houston Dynamo because the field won't be ready at Gillette Stadium.
New England now intends to plays its first home game on March 15 against FC Cincinnati.
"Due to this week's historic winter weather in the northeast, the harvesting and delivery of the stadium's new natural grass field has been delayed," the team said in a statement Friday.
"With field-related stadium infrastructure preparations completed on schedule, the Gillette Stadium field crew is prepared to install the grass when it arrives ahead of the Revolution's new MLS home opener."
Monday's storm that meteorologists are calling the strongest in a decade dumped more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow in parts of the Northeast. More than 3 feet (0.9 meters) fell in Rhode Island -- surpassing snow totals from the historic Blizzard of 1978 that struck the Northeast, the National Weather Service said.
Around 2 feet of snow fell in Foxborough.
New England opened with a 4-1 loss at Nashville last weekend and is at the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.
The Associated Press was used in this report.