Turf story from Jourdan Rodrigue

[TheMaulClaw]

44 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. 

How is that strange?  Filthy rich people are wealthy for two reason.  They're cheap, and they're sociopaths.

[Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D.]

26 minutes ago, gofightwin said:

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. 

If only someone could invent some form of artificial sunlight for these indoor stadiums 

[ECHornet]

How far out are we, technologically, from having a turf option suitable to players' wishes/comfort? Maybe two years? 

With all the interest and money floating around on this topic, someone will produce it soon.

[Growl]

15 minutes ago, ECHornet said:

How far out are we, technologically, from having a turf option suitable to players' wishes/comfort? Maybe two years? 

With all the interest and money floating around on this topic, someone will produce it soon.

well this is obviously what’s going to happen

people-including the people who play the game, want the game to be played on grass.

but more importantly, the NFL is not going to admit it’s wrong 

thus some stupid and absurd BETTER THAN GRASS technology has to be invented to show that the NFL Is Dedicated To The Safety Of It’s Players and Darin gantt will write a lovely propaganda piece for panthers.com saying that “I can’t believe it’s <insert current year> and people still believe these professional athletes should be playing on the same things their grandpaps played on in this multibillon dollar industry which, is, above all things, dedicated to the safety of its players and can do better”

of course ultimately the NFL doesn’t have to take even an iota of criticism and will, to the point, be saving a little bit of money to not make its athletes or fans happy

Edited January 11, 2023 by Growl

[Panthering]

They just need to force a league wide mandate on playing surface in the NFL and hire the blokes over in the UK to come over and teach us a thing or two about maintaining grass for sports to be played on. Some of those soccer fields over there are in such perfect condition it's wild, love watching it on a cozy saturday morning. 

[gofightwin]

13 minutes ago, Panthering said:

They just need to force a league wide mandate on playing surface in the NFL and hire the blokes over in the UK to come over and teach us a thing or two about maintaining grass for sports to be played on. Some of those soccer fields over there are in such perfect condition it's wild, love watching it on a cozy saturday morning. 

Have you ever been to the UK? If they get one 90 degree day in the summer the city melts down.  A typical summer day there is mid 70’s for a high. They have very different grass and climate over there.  What they grow there will not grow here outside of a few places like San Fran or Seattle.  

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D. said:

If only someone could invent some form of artificial sunlight for these indoor stadiums 

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Talk to the best indoor weed growers. I guarantee they could solve this.

[thefuzz]

24 minutes ago, Panthering said:

They just need to force a league wide mandate on playing surface in the NFL and hire the blokes over in the UK to come over and teach us a thing or two about maintaining grass for sports to be played on. Some of those soccer fields over there are in such perfect condition it's wild, love watching it on a cozy saturday morning. 

Hell yea!!!

And some of our good ole boys can head over there and teach em how to grow watermelons and tobacco.

 

Two options as I see it.  NFLPA does nothing.  NFLPA says they will strike until it's resolved, the owners will cough up another handful of millions and it will continue on.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Jesus. It's VERY easy to do. You look back how ever far you want. You see which players got a certain type of injury. You then look at what type of field it was done on. It's not rocket science. And the results will not tell you anything major.

[ECHornet]

1 minute ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Jesus. It's VERY easy to do. You look back how ever far you want. You see which players got a certain type of injury. You then look at what type of field it was done on. It's not rocket science. And the results will not tell you anything major.

More so than ACLs and similar injuries, my subjective view is more guys are getting knocked out or close to it when getting slammed on turf surfaces vs. grass.

[Panthering]

13 minutes ago, gofightwin said:

Have you ever been to the UK? If they get one 90 degree day in the summer the city melts down.  A typical summer day there is mid 70’s for a high. They have very different grass and climate over there.  What they grow there will not grow here outside of a few places like San Fran or Seattle.  

oi bruv i'll jab you in the gabber m8 them blokes know a thing or two about grass not worried bout no bloody climate 

[top dawg]

1 hour ago, cookinbrak said:

Did Tepper buy BOA stadium?

Yes.