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Originally Posted by jettio
Chiefs organization did not want the game moved. They knew that 2 trucks with sod was already on the highway and the hybrid turf grass field would be resodded starting the Wednesday before the Monday night game.
But with wildfires going on and the aerial photos of the field on the internet, the Rams were in a position to crybaby a change that benefited themselves.
Why do you think the Chiefs are playing a Mexico City game this year?
Chiefs front office people know it would be bad form to have complained about it last year, but as time goes by, you ask Clark Hunt and Brett Veach and Mark Donovan what happened, they will tell you that Chiefs and NFL wanted to play in Mexico City and knew that the field would be ready for a Monday Night game.
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The players threatened to boycott. Your claim is just laughably ridiculous. That the NFL would migrate TOWARD a wildfire while other leagues were canceling games. The idea that the NFL who would sell their own babies for $$ took tens of millions in losses because of a sob story or team favoritism. OK sure.
Again, just because the field was ready doesn't mean it was suitable to play. If soccer players were griping about constantly terrible field conditions normally, why would nfl players have any confidence the field would be fine after the field was wrecked... Preparing for a different sport... Clark Hunt is smart enough to know that tyreek or kelce blowing their knees out planting on horrendous turf is a hell of a lot more of a bigger deal than the game being moved to LA.
Good grief.