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04-20-2023, 11:22 AM | Topic Starter |
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The NFLPA says injury rates are significantly higher on artificial turf than on grass
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/
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04-20-2023, 11:59 AM | #2 |
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04-20-2023, 12:01 PM | #3 |
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Artificial turf needs to be banned. It's a blight on the sport.
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04-20-2023, 12:46 PM | #4 |
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So is this because the surface is harder when a player lands on it?
Or because the surface provides a better grip for footwear and instead of the foot losing grip a knee blows out? Or both? I've always wondered whether on indoor artificial turf fields if you restricted the sort of cleats players could wear, so that at some point their foot would slip instead of their knee blowing out, would that improve player safety? |
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The faster surface doesn't give, so when a player cuts, pretty much all the torque concentrates in the ankle/knee or particularly when a defender grabs a ball-carrier and adds their momentum/weight to those joints, and eventually the soft tissues have to tear. Last edited by Megatron96; 04-20-2023 at 01:03 PM.. |
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04-20-2023, 06:36 PM | #8 |
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04-20-2023, 06:43 PM | #9 | |
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04-20-2023, 08:22 PM | #10 | |
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That seems fairly straightforward if it would help protect knees. |
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04-20-2023, 08:26 PM | #11 |
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You can't beat grass PERIOD You would think these owners would pay a little more in maintenance to protect their HUGE INVESTMENTS
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04-20-2023, 12:47 PM | #12 |
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04-20-2023, 12:50 PM | #13 |
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04-20-2023, 12:58 PM | #14 |
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Probably just grandfather them in. Everybody else needs to make the switch. It would at least greatly reduce the overall number of games being played on artificial turf.
They won't do it though. Titans are in process of replacing grass with turf right now. Guess they felt that they could benefit from having fewer healthy players on game day. |
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04-20-2023, 02:29 PM | #15 |
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