Super Bowl record of teams with turf on their home fields since 2010

[PhillyB]

I'm going to do science: without having already searched for the answer, I'm going to randomly select a period of ten years of football seasons, pull the super bowl teams for each season, and see if we can find any meaningful corroboration between performance outcomes and playing on ~tuuuuurf~ since the majority of the huddle is melting down and declaring this a persecution of The Real Way Football Is Played.

Here we go, commencing inductive research:

2010 - Packers (Turf) Steelers (Grass)

2011 - Giants (Turf) Patriots (Turf)

2012 - Ravens (Turf) 49ers (Grass)

2013 - Seahawks (Turf) Broncos (Grass)

2014 - Patriots (Turf) Seahawks (Turf)

2015 - Broncos (Grass) Panthers (Grass)

2016 - Patriots (Turf) Falcons (Turf)

2017 - Eagles (Grass) Patriots (Turf)

2018 - Patriots (Turf) Rams (Turf)

2019 - Chiefs (Grass) 49ers (Grass)

2020 - Bucs (Grass) Chiefs (Grass)

 

Observation: of the twenty total super bowl appearances by teams in the last ten years, 60% of them were by teams that played on turf, exceeding the percentage of teams that use it (45%). Furthermore, a whopping 70% of super bowl winners in the past ten years played on turf at home.

Conclusion: people that bitch about "real football" (whatever that means) being played on turf are imbeciles, and you shouldn't take their cries about player safety seriously because they're also the same people who bawled about losing "real football" (again, meaningless term) when the NFLPA changed defensive rules to protect players. When your hallowed refrain is "well why don't we just put flags on 'em next?" you've lost the moral high ground and your concerns are no longer about safety, but about a sense of heritage.

Which is dumb, but on par for Carolina, a fanbase known to prefer gutty 7-9 seasons with a lunchpail quarterback doing things the traditional way. So it goes.

There, science!

 

 

[Scott12345]

The only thing that Tepper considered on this was his wallet

[PhillyB]

Addendum: I personally would prefer grass too, for player safety exclusively, but I am not a massive whiny crybaby so I'm not going to write eight hundred paragraphs on why football is dying because of it.

[PhillyB]

Just now, Scott12345 said:

The only thing that Tepper considered on this was his wallet

the only owner in the nfl to do so, undoubtedly 

[WarHeel]

What really matters is are these numbers statistically significant. Not sure 60% is a strong majority. 
 

Also would be curious to see how the players feel about it. I didn’t play football in high school or college for that matter but most of the athletes I knew preferred grass.

[1989]

So many little whiners on this board. It’s shocking. 

[PhillyB]

1 minute ago, WarHeel said:

What really matters is are these numbers statistically significant. Not sure 60% is a strong majority. 
 

Also would be curious to see how the players feel about it. I didn’t play football in high school or college for that matter but most of the athletes I knew preferred grass.

they don't support a position that turf HELPS you win super bowls, but they sure as hell unseat the huddle's insistence that the football sky is falling, and that's what this is all about.

[Moo Daeng]

 

 Like 2/3rd of the NFL are using turf already. Is there something kind of cool about grass? Yes. Is this something I really care about? no

I recall tons of complaining here about our grass field conditions

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Moo Daeng

[PhillyB]

Just now, Moo Daeng said:

Is there something kind of cool about grass? Yes. Is this something I really care about? no

 

that's what this boils down to.

turf has zero effect on fans or on the aesthetics of the game (unless you like mud pits, which are dangerous to players.)

if nfl fans cared about player safety they'd turn off their televisions and bankrupt the sport because it's a modern day gladiator sport, and they'd support every single measure to change the rules to improve player safety, but instead they reflexively bitch the second a ref throws a flag on a linebacker for driving his helmet into the side of another man's head.

no, reflexive bitching is woven into the fabric of the american football fan whose inherent selfishness reveals itself in castrated heritage arguments.

[Moo Daeng]

2 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

that's what this boils down to.

turf has zero effect on fans or on the aesthetics of the game (unless you like mud pits, which are dangerous to players.)

if nfl fans cared about player safety they'd turn off their televisions and bankrupt the sport because it's a modern day gladiator sport, and they'd support every single measure to change the rules to improve player safety, but instead they reflexively bitch the second a ref throws a flag on a linebacker for driving his helmet into the side of another man's head.

no, reflexive bitching is woven into the fabric of the american football fan whose inherent selfishness reveals itself in castrated heritage arguments.

 

Many generate their self worth from their ability or inability to brag about a competition they are not involved in and the surface this competition is held on, apparently.

[bandu]

"greatest show on turf 2.0" ..

.Darnold comeback will be Kurt Warner-ish

Edited April 29, 2021 by bandu

[BurnNChinn]

Analytics baby, lol joke.

[frankw]

Grass really should not be this divisive of a topic. The franchise will survive. On the flip side though the Panthers billionaire owner does not need people to shield him from the obvious. He's not in this for kindness.

[Growl]

34 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

the only owner in the nfl to do so, undoubtedly 

you think that because it’s new it’s progressive and thus are apologizing for inherently unprogressive things
 

turf isn’t helping teams win super bowls