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Originally Posted by browna
Chris Clemons also tore his ACL thanks to that disgrace of a playing surface yesterday. (Petersen did it on the field a year ago too). Carrroll ripped it today too, and it's condition certainly didn't help Griffin's injury either.
The sack leader and a key pass rusher to force Qb's to throw it into the strong SEA secondary. Irvin will step in and do ok, but not the same down by down, especially if the Seahawks manage to beat ATL.
League talks about player safety and tries to make everything else across the league as level a playing field as possible (don't you dare wear black shoes or pull your socks up too high), but can't tell a billionaire owner to get proper grass/re-sod, or stop playing Bowl games on it so its in adequate/non dangerous shape.
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This is a tough area to grow grass though. They have to use Bermuda because nothing else would last through the hot summers, but it goes dormant here around October, so it is not repairing itself after that. Re sodding in December wouldn't work because it wouldn't weave in.
I'd hate for them to go to field turf, but that hybrid option sounds kind of cool where they inject artificial turf into the real grass.