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I read today that Aaron Rodgers said he thinks it is time for the league to mandate grass fields.

He also stated he was not optimistic that the owners would pay up to make it happen.

Of course JC Tretter has been saying this for years.

The players are fully aware of where most of the injuries come from. Turf. Joint injuries and concussions.

However, the billionaire club owners talk all about their concern for player safety. Please, they do not care. The players are temporary and expendable.

The NFL which is the owners are like most business billionaires. Me first. You maybe later.

How hard is it to grow grass indoors? I started doing it in 1995 or so.
The Haslem's just need to hire the right company. These guys seem to be growing grass indoors just fine.

Of course that is the reason. The history is long.

That is why I posted it because overall the NFL image is not so good. Cover up with Snyder. Concussion settlements. Ambivalent suspension policy. Player Safety. It has been like a wound that you keep pulling the bandaid off. Hypocrisy a-go-go.

The players have been griping about turf since it came out. I was watching a little of the Panther's game. The traction the linemen where getting off the turf was crazy. I was thinking damn they are torqued. It just looks hard, no give.

It sure makes sense to mandate grass all natural is the way to go. Organic.

I don't think it's as simplistic as that. It could be but as I look at it from a big picture perspective I don't think so. It wasn't until February of 1996 that the NFL announced that the Browns would get a new expansion team in 1999. That gave a little over three and a half years to first find the funding for and then build such a stadium. That's a rather tight timeline and you can't construct a stadium you neither have the funding for or the time to build. I think not only was the expansion team a rush job but the stadium built was as well. We're just now beginning to see the consequences of that.

This 100, Lamp.

There wasn't enough time, patience, planning or foresight to really build "longevity" into the project. Combine that with the construction methods of driving pylons through landfill to support the weight and it was mission:impossible to ever add the weight of a dome retrofit later.