ARTIFICIAL TURF VS. REAL GRASS: NFL'S ONGOING PROBLEM WITH PLAYING SURFACES "The committee, including the NFLPA's experts, believe that simply playing on natural grass is not the answer to this complex challenge. Some artificial turf surfaces have a lower injury rate than some grass fields, an...
Mike Florio and Chris Simms outline how J.J. McCarthy’s injury is just another reason to revisit the conversation about artificial turf fields versus grass fields.Stay in the Know Subscribe to our Newsletter and Alerts Subscribe Sports College Basketball Cycling College Foot...
Phillips was carted from the field late in the fourth quarter, a non-contact injury that reignited the turf-vs.-grass debate among players. “Since I’ve been in the league, I’ve heard the field is trash,” said Holland, whose 99-yard interception return for a touchdown in the first...
hosting, as will the NFL stadiums in the other 10 U.S. cities that don't already have grass. FIFA mandates the use of grass fields for World Cup matches, and the announcement of the temporary conversions prompted an uproar about why all the NFL's outdoor stadiums weren't already grass....
NFL Players Engage in Turf Skirmishes Safety of Artificial Fields Open to DebateWhen it comes to artificial turf, the grass isn't always greener.Ask Rams middle linebacker Shane Conlan, who wears a black-metal knee brace as a badge of nine rough-and-tumble seasons in the National Football...
time for the Arizona Cardinals training camp which includes 18 practices and two preseason home games going on now through August 24. It’s free and open to the public, giving Cardinals fans the opportunity to watch the pro football players practice on the NFL’s top grass field, according ...
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Artificial turf represents a higher initial capital cost than natural grass, but this is often recuperated through extended hours of use of the fields (no down time, no recovery time, and playing longer into different seasons), lowered maintenance costs (no watering, no mowing, no chemicals),...
West Coast Turf had been the natural turfgrass supplier to Bank One Ballpark, Chase Field, and the Arizona Diamondbacks since the inception of the team in 1998. They have also supplied the NFL with eight Super Bowl fields from California to Florida, including Super Bowls XXVII, XXIX, XXX, XX...
Six decades ago, AstroTurf was promoted along with Houston's Astrodome as a space-age wonder. Today, artificial "turf fields" features even more prominently in sports. Half of NFL teams' stadiums use the plastic stuff and it's widespread in local communities across the U.S., including on ...