Most of these issues boil down to this: Q: Why is there...? A: Greed.

Toured Lambeau last Christmas and when he explained the surface, who they do to it, how they maintain it, it’s unbelievable. It is hands down the best surface to play on in the NFL.

I live in Vegas. Raiders do a good job with natural grass. Field is retractable, and it's nice

Las Vegas has grass and more events than any other stadium in the NFL

Just look at Tottenham Stadium here in the UK, we have grass and turf! The technology is there and it’s not difficult, football of all varieties should be played on grass!

3:29 Absolutely ! I've visited a few years ago, the Santiago-Bernabéu stadium in Madrid. It was unbelievable with their system along with lights and sprinklers. As a casual visitor, i was stuned by the way they treated their grass in a soccer stadium.

Billionaires cant maintain a grass field? Alright…..

Lifelong Packers fan, I can tell you that Lambeau and its playing surface is a point of pride, especially among fans who've toured the stadium and gotten educated on all the care and work that has gone into building and maintaining it. It's the way football was intended to be played, and we're proud our team maintains the tradition and integrity of the game where others have tried to cut corners.

Or you could pay 75 million guaranteed to a player who played 4 snaps. You tell me if you'd rather pay for grass or pay for a dozen of your player's medical bills.

Nick Bosa tore his ACL on the same field.

The Real Madrid is the way to do it moving forward or similar to Tottenham if a stadium has the space. Most of our stadiums are surround by parking lots so there's zero excuse to have retractable fields. BTW, the grass they bring in for the international soccer events are not all that great and there's been much complaining about the system specifically at Met Life which is why the will install grass there and not lay over the turf for 2026.

It’s never what the players and fans want.. it’s only what the owners discuss behind closed doors in their collusion meetings.. I mean owner meetings

I for one am sick and tired of seeing my star players not on the field due to injuries

Grass is super hard to maintain year round in cold weather cities, Buffalo, New England, the Midwest. If you are west coast and in the south you should be using natural grass

The side by side webcam is AWESOME, much needed and appreciated. It’s so much more personal

Totally agree!

If Green Bay can maintain a grass field, nobody else has an excuse outside of dome teams. And even then I'm sure they could do it if they put their minds to it with the retractable grass tech that's been developed. I didn't even realize the Titans and Panthers played on turf though. That's just pathetic.

I can see Rogers becoming the biggest spokesperson against turf in NFL stadiums and with good reason, similar to what Theismann did with the flea flicker lmao

I remember in the 80’s the Jets playing the patriots in New England. The turf was so bad it seemed every time the jets went there multiple guys both sides included were lost to ACL or MCL. No reason NOT to have grass. Artificial stuff good for patios, not pros. Yet surface replaced with real grass for upcoming World Cup. League less caring about players then they are about surface. Even if cost higher so what, Losing guys to surface injuries is worse then spending more money on safety. I am nit saying guys still will not get injured but at least grass and dirt give while artificial does not.

Mark Davis has shown the way in Vegas. That playing surface is incredible there. Turf fields should be banned or better yet, take a first round from all teams that don't put in a grass field and keep taking the first round pick until the field is grass.

the answer is greed.

So the odds are zero because seemingly every NFL owner is short-sighted and petty.

I guess there's artificial turf so everybody can stay clean, and maybe not slip on rainy days, however we're just getting farther and farther away from good old fashion hard nose football, muddy games were fun to watch, were there less ankle injuries?

The Ravens play on grass and it doesn't seem to prevent the amount of serious injuries that have occurred in that stadium. Stanley, Lamar last year, Dobbins this year all suffered lower extremity injuries in Baltimore.

The cost topic is bs. Hundreds of venues do it in europe for 20+ soccer matches plus other events every year. Its not tens of millions.

It took rodgers to go down for them to finally start talking about this, which IS is a problem, I’ve never understood how rich asses can be such cheapos with turf, I’m talking to you detroit. Don’t get Monty hurt on that poor man’s grass.

Players have been complaining about these turf surfaces for years and years, but now the HoF QB in his first game in NY goes down for the season. Now the owners get to see the true worst case scenario come to life.

Perhaps the Players Union can fund a change over. Hahaha hahaha hahaha aaahhahahahahahaha

He made an argument as if inflation isn’t real. Dude 300m for a stadium 20-30 years ago is multibillion now days.

The jets OLine would have got Godzilla hurt with the way they blocked! Especially that LT!! Watch the play again he was on his face!

The Packers truly have the best field to play on and have actual grass grass that’s highly well maintained and they know how to maintain that sucker in the cold weather!!

How would they do such an underground system in enclosed stadiums like the Superdome in cities like NOLA that have the potential of flooding?

Most NFL owners do not own the stadium they rent it out. I assume whoever owns the stadiums uses the turf to help their profits. So if Grass is mandated then they either lose profits or increase their rent. I assume most of these lease agreements are in place for multiple years so they can’t increase rent to NFL teams

Artificial turf looks better on tv.

Well MetLife is going to lose a helluva lot more money from losing Rodgers than it would have for getting the guys to play on turf

Remember soccer/football players are like half the size and weight of NFL players. The forces they generate are just on a different scale.

oooh safety issues..we r gonna ban kick returns..but we dont GAF about palyer safety!!!!!

The NFL is to soft for this to be happening today. Back in the day most injuries like this came from massive crushing tackles not from your foot being planted in rubber pellets

Bullspit. Most new stadiums are paid by taxpayers, not owners.

It beggars belief that in 2023 that a sport; which generates both more $$$$$ and stats than most countries on the planet - nobody seems to be able to say 100% that TURF is more or less dangerous than GRASS. Ask the players......... how many more superstar athletes do the NFL need to see carted off the field before something is done. Both Mahomes and Hurts are due to play at MetLife very soon - what if they get injured there too........ WAKE-UP NFL DITCH the TURF.

i think grass is better. BUT the QB is 38-39. Wilson was getting CREAMED and he kept getting up b/c he's normal QB age. Non-elite athletes i know usually blow the other achilles out after the first is fixed. It may be time for Rodgers to just hang it up.

A lot of words leading to nothing! Grass in Philly 1 hr 30 mins away! No events are outside in the Winter anyway, the tech is out there to do it its just about money. Will hurt them closing free agents

There should be no conversation, GET RID OF IT! I made my case on X about this

NFL and other USA sports teams never pay for their stadiums.

It's a no Brainer. Rip out the turf. Ask your players. If you can grow grass in January in Green Bay, you can grow grass anywhere

Most impressive artificial turf is Breer's skin on this Zoom call! Holy AI image touch up batman.

It boils down to bargaining power. Soccer players have lots of options to play and earn top dollar (and the teams/owners know this). NFL players have the US and Canada. Also, could you imagine if the NFL adopted relegation rules?

People wondering if the turf had any elements impact on Aaron rodgers injury just take a good look at the thumbnail and imagine your foot like that right now

Players Union should demand natural grass playing surface. No excuse for teams with outdoor stadiums not converting to grass surface. Starting with MetLife. MetLife hosts a minimum of 17 games a season, more if either the Jets or Giants host playoffs. Two teams sharing a stadium can’t pony up enough cash to replace the worse playing surface in the league?

I would think owners would want to protect their investment in players. I bet the Jets owner wished they had grass now. Now, they have no chance of winning a Super Bowl.

How does Green Bay do it?? What event they having there besides football??? Concerts are in Milwaukee 5 hours away

so FIFA can demand they get grass, but the second NFL players want to play on Grass suddenly it's we can't afford it?

that turf claimed a few niners back in the day.

MLB teams have grass fields. And that is a non-contact sport where most of the players on the field are on dirt most of the time!

The Jets also want artificial turf banned bc it will take away some of the pain of not winning the super bowl this year.

“How can they put grass for the World Cup?” It’s a limited time It’s nit difficult

Carolina pulled their grass out! Shame

They care to much about money to ever do grass, but they should.

there 3 stadiums that's Messi don't want play in MLS Seattle sounders, New England revolution and Atlanta United because the stadium share with NFL team

Why? Greed. Extreme levels of greed.

So the NFL has made defense irrelevant and looking at the QB wrong is now a penalty, but grass isnt worth it for player safety? Give me a break

Cardinals roll their field outside

Besides, taxpayer money is used for stadium grass.

Just ban turf in America. It’s a safety issue

I just keep expecting to hear Gilbert Gottfrieds voice when Albert starts talking

When they start playing like they used to and be able to play hard without stopping the game to save lives...lol I may care then.

Zero percent

Anyone who thinks Don Goodeloni & the NFL high muckety-mucks are actually focused on "Player Safety" is delusional. They have proven time & time again over the past 20+ years that all they care about is doing just enough to keep their law suit liabilities down & their bottom lines up. Anything they do is purely, 100%, for appearances. Whether it be adding more over seas games, expanding the schedule (while keeping the roster numbers down), games on more days of the week (less rest time/higher turn around time) - it's all about the $$$. It's only been over the past 7-8 years that they have really put a focus on developing better helmets & enforcing their use and THAT was simply a function of their nearly one BILLION dollar concussion settlement. Anyone expecting the Billionaire's Club members (aka Owners) to fork over money retrofitting turf fields to natural grass is kidding themselves. They are willing to pay Rodgers $18.7 million per SNAP this year, when a turf field would have cost them $5-10m. Shows you where their priorities are. The only thing worse than the NFL's officiating is their track record on player safety.

Squeezing the rock for water… this is NOT the most interesting story in sport. D block rookie reporters have better stories today.

Albert comes off as a such a shill here.

Everyone else was fine btw

The injury rate on both surfaces is no different. Its an excuse players use to show how mean the nfl is. nobody complains in the ncaa. why do they complain in the NFL. When aaron Rogers went down the excuses started piling in. The offensive line, The turf, and bad luck were blamed but nobody mentioned hes a 40 year old man with skinny legs.

The idea of completely banning turf is kind of absurd, especially for a sport that's played in the winter. The MLB still has long had turf in Tampa, which has a fixed roof, and Toronto, where it is too cold to maintain grass consistently. More recently, turf is making a comeback in the South, where it has been added in Phoenix, Miami, and Texas. Again, for the opposite reason as Toronto, it is too difficult and expensive to maintain grass consistently in the summer heat. Now for all these reasons, it would be next to impossible to ban artificial turf in the NFL, especially in the North where grass stops growing in October, and in fixed roof stadiums which doesn't get any sun to begin with. I'm not sure how grass is maintained in Vegas without keeping the inside temperatures at uncomfortable levels, unless its a miracle of engineering I'm not familiar with. More than that, as with the case of the MLB in the South, maintaining grass in the North or retrofitting fixed roof stadiums to be like Vegas is an expense most owners don't want to entertain, and may not actually solve the problem. Finally, the issue of injury was much more prevalent in the multi-purpose stadium days, where seams and imperfections where the fields were changed over would cause various ligament tears or other injuries. With the departure of the Raiders to Las Vegas, these no longer exist in the NFL, and are no longer a factor. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Please, get rid of these crappy fields. Football is meant to be played on REAL GRASS

It’s always about money

If the team can't or won't pay for natural grass. Cancel them honestly they won't be missed