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Should we get rid of artificial turf?

doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 28, 2022 2:32AM in Sports Talk

So, Odell Beckham just ripped into the NFL universe for the continued use of artificial turf, he is upset after seeing Sterling Shepard get a non contact knee injury on MNF.

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,241 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would tend to agree. seems like they could spend what it takes to play on natural grass.

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  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With the roll-on-off turf at Arizona it has been proven that grass can be grown and used anywhere. It just takes owners with the decision making power to change it because I doubt the NFL will ever enforce a rule of Grass Only.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What would you do for teams that do not own the stadium, but lease?

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bring back grass fields and the scoring will go way down

  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kentucky Bluegrass, baby!!! :)

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    Bring back grass fields and the scoring will go way down

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    I know that after Beckham got hurt last year, he got involved in this. Maybe there is a petition by players going around? But don't almost half of the stadiums have real grass now? Can anyone find stats to compare scoring at these stadiums?

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    According to an article from February:

    According to the NFLPA, their data found that players have a 28% higher rate of non-contact lower extremity injuries when playing on artificial turf, including a 32% higher rate of non-contact knee injuries on turf and a 69% higher rate of non-contact foot or ankle injuries on turf compared to grass.

    That would seem to be a pretty strong incentive to make it work with natural grass. So long as you have actual standards since some teams (cough, Pittsburgh, cough) don't take care of their fields to a high degree at all.

  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fourteen NFL stadiums have artificial turf but two of them are used by two teams. That means half the games during a season are played on grass and half on turf. I tried to cut/paste a list of stadiums with the type of surface but the forum software blocks it.

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,112 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Prefer the natural surface. Has it ever been studied that when the rains come artificial is less injury causing than grass? In this regard which is safer.

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