Turf story from Jourdan Rodrigue

[Mr. Scot]

The turf conditions for the Panthers-Lions game are mentioned in the article.

NFL owners want this story to go away, but it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.

Edited January 11, 2023 by Mr. Scot

[TheCasillas]

It's time for the NFLPA to nut up or shut up.

[4Corners]

It’s just strange to me that a filthy rich person doesn’t take more pride in the grass on the field. They can afford it. Just seems like a cheapo way of cutting costs. More evidence that they don’t care about player safety. 

[4Corners]

Isn’t there like a grass-turf hybrid that is supposed to be the best? 

[kungfoodude]

15 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The turf conditions for the Panthers-Lions game are mentioned in the article.

NFL owners want this story to go away, but it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.

Whoa...whoa...whoa......WHOA.

Are you telling me that an NFL funded study didn't have accurate results????

[kungfoodude]

7 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

It's time for the NFLPA to nut up or shut up.

They won't. It will have to be the media that pushes it.

[kungfoodude]

"The NFL was no rookie at the Disinformation Playbook by the time Omalu published his initial paper on Webster in 2005. High-profile concussion-related retirements and injuries in the early 1990s had prompted reluctant NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue to create the NFL-run Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee (MTBI). Beginning in 2003, MTBI published research in the journal Neurosurgery (whose editor-in-chief consulted for the New York Giants) that heavily downplayed the breadth and severity of concussions."

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nfl-tried-intimidate-scientists-studying-link-between-pro-football-and-traumatic-brain

[TheCasillas]

5 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

It’s just strange to me that a filthy rich person doesn’t take more pride in the grass on the field. They can afford it. Just seems like a cheapo way of cutting costs. More evidence that they don’t care about player safety. 

Don't forget the cities as well in this. Most stadiums in the NFL are leased not owned by the owners. So when they use the stadium for multi-use and leverage that purpose as the driving factor for turf... they are to blame as well. Which also might make it hard for the NFLPA to get this overruled bc the city doesnt have any obligation to the NFL or the NFLPA.

[CRA]

9 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

It’s just strange to me that a filthy rich person doesn’t take more pride in the grass on the field. They can afford it. Just seems like a cheapo way of cutting costs. More evidence that they don’t care about player safety. 

Tepper values using his stadium for multiple purposes over football.  He pretty much has said so. 

[t96]

17 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

It's time for the NFLPA to nut up or shut up.

If I were in NFLPA leadership I would strike until this issue was resolved to be honest.

[gofightwin]

7 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Isn’t there like a grass-turf hybrid that is supposed to be the best? 

The hybrid type of grass is a cool season grass which grows well in the UK/Europe but not in the south. They haven’t done it with Bermuda which is more than half the grass surfaces. 

[gofightwin]

Good luck getting Jerry Jones, Blank and Kronke to tear out a giant holes in their new stadiums so they can roll out a field into his parking lot for sun.  

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle after these domes were built. You can’t roll in a grass field that doesn’t get sun. It won’t grow. And newly sodded fields are worse as the roots haven’t bonded together yet to make a solid surface. 

[ickmule]

35 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The turf conditions for the Panthers-Lions game are mentioned in the article.

NFL owners want this story to go away, but it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.

It should not go away. These asshole owners need to start giving a $hit about the players. 

[cookinbrak]

Did Tepper buy BOA stadium?