The NFLPA says injury rates are significantly higher on artificial turf than on grass

[wazu]

A pretty bad look for the NFL. Glad Arrowhead has a grass field. Seems like a big key to our success this past half-decade has been good fortune on the injury front. I can't imagine a team making the conscious decision to opt for the "more injuries" approach.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...grass-in-2022/

Spoiler!

During the 2022 season, ESPN published data supplied by the NFL that purported to show that injury rates on grass and artificial turf were approximately the same. The NFL Players Association says that data was misleading, and that the NFL highlighted one outlier year’s worth of injury rates when the full body of research makes clear that players are injured more often on artificial turf.

According to the NFLPA, the NFL selectively released injury data from 2021 only, and 2021 happened to be an unusual year because injury rates on artificial turf and grass were very similar that year — although even in 2021, players were slightly more likely to be injured on turf. But in every other season besides 2021, the NFLPA says, injury rates were significantly higher on turf.

That includes the 2022 season, when injury rates on turf were as high as ever — and when the NFL didn’t make an effort to get those injury rates published by the media.

NFLPA President J.C. Tretter wrote on the NFLPA’s website that the injury data from the 2022 season makes clear that 2021 was a statistical outlier, and that in every other season for which there is injury data to compare grass and turf, grass has proven significantly safer.

“In short, last year, the gap – much like the NFL’s credibility with players on this issue – was as wide as it has ever been, proving that (as the NFLPA suspected) 2021 was in fact an outlier,” Tretter writes. “Now, 10 of the previous 11 years show the same exact thing — grass is a significantly safer surface than turf.”

Tretter said the players can’t trust the NFL when it would selectively release misleading data on players’ health and safety.

“The credibility the league has with the players on health and safety issues is virtually nonexistent,” Tretter writes. “Instead of following the long-term data (which is clear on this issue), listening to players and making the game safer, the NFL used an outlier year to engage in a PR campaign to convince everyone that the problem doesn’t actually exist.”

The union would prefer that every NFL stadium have a grass field, but it making little progress in convincing the league to take the issue seriously. In fact, this year one more stadium will have a turf field, as the Titans have announced that they’re replacing their grass with an artificial surface.

[BWillie]

I was at the xmas party thing they have at Arrowhead last week and you could see the grow lights on the field with wheels. Field all tarped off. Wonder how much the yearly maintenance costs for having real grass is

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I was at the xmas party thing they have at Arrowhead last week and you could see the grow lights on the field with wheels. Field all tarped off. Wonder how much the yearly maintenance costs for having real grass is

especially when it gets really cold

[Eureka]

Even this is better then turf.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Even this is better then turf.

I wouldnt go that far.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Even this is better then turf.

I can hear Charlie Jones calling that game.

[PHOG]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Even this is better then turf.

[TribalElder]

That piece of shit field in NY/New Jersey was behind a bunch of season ending injuries from achillies to acl's

[ku_jhawk23]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I was at the xmas party thing they have at Arrowhead last week and you could see the grow lights on the field with wheels. Field all tarped off. Wonder how much the yearly maintenance costs for having real grass is

With all of the costs of a person going to a game, the year over year profits of an nfl team, and billionaire owner.....i don't give a **** how much it costs them to take care of the grass.