NFL mandates new playing surfaces for all stadiums by 2028

[Just Jack]

I wonder if the Bills new stadium is good, or if it will need to be updated also.

 

NFL mandates new playing surfaces for all stadiums by 2028 to enhance player safety

 

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Each NFL stadium will have to install a new playing surface by the start of the 2028 season to meet standards set through lab and field testing. NFL field director Nick Pappas detailed the plans for the program on Thursday that will provide each team "a library of approved and accredited NFL fields" before the start of next season. Teams will then have two years to install the new approved playing surfaces, whether they are grass, synthetic or a hybrid. Pappas said the fields will have undergone extensive testing and been approved by a joint committee with the NFLPA. He compared to the testing that has led to new standards for helmets.

 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

I'll be interested to see if they can force this onto the International stadiums

Edited 2 hours ago by JÂy RÛßeÒ

[Prospector]

1 minute ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I'll be interested to see if they can force this onto the International stadiums

Good question

[Rubes]

8 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

I wonder if the Bills new stadium is good, or if it will need to be updated also.

 

NFL mandates new playing surfaces for all stadiums by 2028 to enhance player safety

 

 

 

You'd think there would be some sort of grandfathering for stadiums built within the last X years, but perhaps they didn't state this explicitly since there aren't that many.

 

[GunnerBill]

6 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I'll be interested to see if they can force this onto the International stadiums

 

Tottenham, I believe, already meets the NFL's higher standard which is ludicrous given its injury record. Wembley doesn't. But has a much better injury record. 

 

So call me sceptical.

[MJS]

20 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

I wonder if the Bills new stadium is good, or if it will need to be updated also.

 

NFL mandates new playing surfaces for all stadiums by 2028 to enhance player safety

 

I'm sure the Bills can tweak anything with the field before it is all installed to be compliant.

[strive_for_five_guy]

16 minutes ago, MJS said:

I'm sure the Bills can tweak anything with the field before it is all installed to be compliant.

It’d be dumb if they don’t make sure it’s compliant right off the bat, if anything for their own players’ sake too.

[eball]

41 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I'll be interested to see if they can force this onto the International stadiums

 

Doubt it will be an issue since the international sites want these games...

 

[machine gun kelly]

There’s no point in debating whether all of the loopholes like international stadiums count.  Why?  It’s not changing anything.  I certainly hope we have the most safe stadiums especially after all the soft tissue injuries this year.  That’s somewhat new.  Everyone always thinks their team has it worst, but look at the Lions for the last two years.  The 49ers, and so on.  No one cares.

[Fleezoid]

32 minutes ago, eball said:

 

Doubt it will be an issue since the international sites want these games...

 

 

I was thinking the same thing. The league will say, 'your stadium needs to meet these standards or will take the game elsewhere'. 

[dollars 2 donuts]

 

 

What are they going to tell us?

 

"Stop using real grass. You need something synthetic with potentially cancer causing bits."

 

 

 

 

 

 

[machine gun kelly]

17 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said:

 

 

What are they going to tell us?

 

"Stop using real grass. You need something synthetic with potentially cancer causing bits."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey Donuts, GET OFF MY LAWN!  Good to hear from you bud.

 

 Go Bills!

[Wacka]

1 hour ago, MJS said:

I'm sure the Bills can tweak anything with the field before it is all installed to be compliant.

It is already installed. 

[Just Jack]

1 hour ago, MJS said:

I'm sure the Bills can tweak anything with the field before it is all installed to be compliant.

 

Little late for that. 

 

[Gugny]

3 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

 

Little late for that. 

 

Is there any way in hell this place isn’t called “The Bedpan,” forever?

[MJS]

5 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

Little late for that. 

 

Maybe the Bills already knew what needed to be done? It would be pretty lame of the NFL to wait for the Bills to just barely install a brand new field and then announce that it has to be torn out and redone.

[Mike in Horseheads]

1 hour ago, eball said:

 

Doubt it will be an issue since the international sites want these games...

 

Thats what we're told.

[mannc]

2 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I'll be interested to see if they can force this onto the International stadiums

Sure they can.  All they have to do is say “Install this turf, or no NFL game for you.”  Easy as can be.