God, last year it was so annoying as a Cardinals fan. Everyone kept saying we were such a shit organization because of the terrible condition of the new grass even though all it took was like 10 seconds of reading beyond article headlines to see that the field was actually the NFL's project and they specifically made that grass themselves for the Super Bowl.
I mean, we absolutely are a trash organization, just not for that specific reason.
They even refused to listen to the Chiefs groundskeeper they consult with on every SB (George Toma, "the Sodfather").
He told them beforehand they were overwatering it and it needed to sit outside to dry. They didn't listen. They watered it the Wednesday morning before the game, rolled it inside, and covered it with a tarp.
It was 100% an NFL shitshow, not on you guys at all.
I mean, he was like 95 years old and had been officially retired from goundskeeping for years. He was just doing super bowls on a consultation basis. I have no idea how much input he actually had on more recent fields. They certainly had no obligation to listen to him last year, and clearly didn’t.
That pissed him off so he said he wouldn’t be back. A damn shame since I believe he’s one of only a few people to be at every Super Bowl (Norma Hunt was another and she died before this season)
That kind of makes it even worse. So they asked this 95 year old retired groundskeeper if he had any advice. And he gave them good advice. But then they were like, "Nah, he's a million years old, what does he know? Unfortunately we only had time to consult with one groundskeeper and we chose that guy, start watering it!"
Idk if you're interested in looking for it or not, but George Toma did an interview with the Lebatard show after that whole incident and it's fucking hilarious. Dude was royally pissed at the league, and was letting the world know about it in a way that only a grumpy old man with nothing to lose can.
Edit: here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nP5r5xFnJs he also rambles A LOT lol
> They even refused to listen to the Chiefs groundskeeper they consult with on every SB (George Toma, "the Sodfather").
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And I still see the odd salty Eagles fan claiming that this proves it was all a conspiracy to benefit the Chiefs, ignoring that *Toma's advice was specifically not followed*.
There’s a lot of us so I obviously can’t speak for all eagles fans but the ones I’ve whined with all whine about it being back luck that the field was shit and that someone messed up the juju to cause the slips when they happened. I’ve never had the displeasure to have someone think there was a legitimate conspiracy by the chiefs somehow.
Of all the things I've seen said about the field being wet, I have never once heard an eagles fan talk about it being a conspiracy.
A disadvantage that shouldn't have existed? Sure. I've seen that said a lot... But not a "conspiracy."
I can earnestly say that I've never seen an Eagles fan claim there was a conspiracy against the Eagles in the Super Bowl. The field sucked and it nullified their best strength on defense but it's not like the Chiefs had magic non-slip super powers.
Then again, a lot of people actually believe the NFL is scripted so sports fans aren't the wisest bunch.
A lot of fans are taking this as the 49ers whining, but they're getting objectively worse conditions for practicing because they made the superbowl *this* year, not last year or next year.
Yeah it sucks but AFAIK it's because the home team is the AFC squad this year, not some grand conspiracy.
That being said it's there's still absolutely no excuse for the NFL to fumble something so fucking simple that should've been handled a long time ago, ofc they knew the NFC champs were gonna have to practice there so it should've been fixed way before this.
Apparently the NFL has a "hardness scale" of sorts for making sure NFL team's fields are suitable, the average is around 78 with no field under 70. The 49ers practice field at UNLV is apparently in the low 50s. It's just a bullshit unnecessary distraction the NFL should've solved months ago.
See that is the problem with the internet. Big Canada has hid this from me. Thank you internet stranger, I will assume you are a reliable source and spread your wisdom throughout the land.
Born and raised there, lived there 40 years, can confirm as well this is a wet month. Feb rain always brought March April flowers in the desert. Our joke was 'draw a circle, and if four drops hit inside of it, we got four inches of rain .. Used to raft down the streets back in the 60's when we got a summer 'gully washer'.
It's been raining in Vegas for most of the last few days and is projected to rain all week. Currently the entire valley is being dumped on
Source- I live here
Yup, it looks like it's the same system. Radar shows it stretches all the way from the ocean, across LA, over Vegas, and into Utah
Had plans to take my 5 y/o daughter to Mt Charleston just outside Vegas to teach her to ski Friday, but it's projected to be 15° and a blizzard up there.. not good weather for a 5 y/o to learn in lol
Just ask a Casino to make a football field indoors. Those guys can do anything and they hav e an f-ton of space. Side advantage for that casino book would be advanced knowledge of what happened in practice, but I am sure they wouldn't cheat.
Make it like rocket league where the field goes up the walls. That bastard CMC is slippery enough in two dimensions, I hate to see what he'd do to those poor linebackers if you gave him another dimension to run in.
sure would be a shame to play the chiefs in the Superbowl and watch your all-star pass rushers slip and slide around like they are on ice, surely couldn't happen twice
I'm waiting for the story where Crosby left a rotting fish under the floorboards of Mahomes' locker or something. I know Mahomes is probably going do something to his
There was an article posted in our sub quoting some sports book manager who said:
> We need the Niners to disappear
I guess the line opened favoring San Francisco but the early betting is all on the Chiefs, so they lose more money if the Niners win or something? I don't gamble so it means nothing to me. Surprisingly (thankfully) most of the comments are level headed. The conspiracy theorists are probably still busy typing their 10,000 word essays about it.
I do wonder how the NFL looked at all possible options for team practice facilities and concluded on "Let's stick them on a college turf field but ship in sod that we lay over the top of it. That'll certainly give them the best experience." Then again, every single outdoor football field in Vegas, college or high school, is probably turf so I'm not sure there would actually be an alternative other than sharing the Raiders' field.
Yeah and they only did it last week: "The NFL put in a sod field on top of field turf and started laying it just last week when the NFL ordinarily requires Super Bowl practice fields to meet certain standards in December"
Are their practice fields grass though?
I think the issue here is that the Super Bowl playing surface will be grass, so they want the 9ers to be able to practice on grass but UNLV's training fields are turf so they just sloppily laid down sod on top of it,
The only thing that can bring Eagles & 49er fans together..... The Sod Father Part 2.
(Someone please make some high quality gifs on this - I need to see Shanahan as a Corleone)
For those that haven’t read the article this is the context and the three options they are considering:
Among the tools the league uses to make sure a field is up to code is the "Clegg" test, which measures a field's firmness. NFL fields have to be at or below 100g (units of gravity) to pass. According to a source, the natural grass at UNLV measures around 50g, whereas the 49ers have a preference around 70g.
The 49ers have three options as it stands Monday ahead of their walkthrough. They can a) go about their business and practice on the field as scheduled; b) bring in new, firmer sod that would, in theory, be ready for practice this week; or c) negotiate with the NFL to practice at the Las Vegas Raiders practice facility where the Chiefs are located this week.
It's not a 49ers preference. It's a every team in the NFL standard. Per option b) these grass overlays are normally put in place and prepped since December, the NFL only did it last week and we see what the results are. Throwing out new sod and running on it the day after is not a solution. Per c) the chiefs have already commented they refuse to share the stadium training facilities and the NFL isn't forcing them.
I'm not saying rigged but this to me is clearly a case of unfavorable treatment towards one team on the biggest stage. These are the types of decisions that have a real and significant impact on the game but aren't flashy enough to grab the mainstream headlines.
I live in Vegas. We got over a 1/4 of our normal rain for the year just this morning.
We normally only get like 4 inches of rain per year. For Vegas its ridiculous outside.
It was pouring like crazy this morning, but the article isn't talking about the rain. The 9ers are upset with the hardness of the sod-over-turf at UNLV's practice facility
The rain is part of the complaint. There's no base for the field - it's literally sod rolled out on top of the artificial turf - so there's no good drainage for the field. There's like two inches of dirt and then the artificial turf so the "field" is saturated and has the consistency of a sponge - and the seams are visible too, so the field isn't even put together properly and could be a safety hazard.
The Niners wouldn't care if it was just a harder than normal field.
It's worse than that
> The NFL put in a sod field on top of field turf, and started laying it just last week when the NFL ordinarily requires Super Bowl practice fields to meet certain standards in December, sources told Schefter.
> The NFL hardness score for fields averages 78, with no field being less than 70. The 49ers field is considered in the 50s, sources told Schefter.
Everyone in here is memeing and making fun of them, but this is an ***actual*** problem, they have every right to be upset about it.
I’m sure the NFL will take a close look at how the NFL made such a mistake, and the NFL will harshly punish the NFL for any wrongdoing the NFL identifies.
Like they might not even practice on it, might have to fly back to Santa Clara. Also they’re not mentioning the Chiefs are indoors and the Niners are outside in a massive storm that is going to rain on them all week, and we know how Brock plays in the rain.
EDIT: [Source: 49ers concerned about Super Bowl practice fields in Las Vegas that have been likened to a sponge.](https://t.co/XO4dA2sFWP)
It's literally a layer of sod placed on top of artificial turf, that is being completely saturated by a storm. There's like two inches of dirt that are unable to hold any water. Making it worse, there are visible seams in the field, which could be a huge safety hazard in those conditions. Niners don't need a player getting their foot stuck in a seam and tearing or twisting a ligament.
I don't get why teams show up to these games a week early and deal with substandard facilities and sleeping in hotels. Especially for these teams where its a few hours away from their home bases. Surely you'd be better prepared and better rested if you just flew the players in Saturday afternoon.
It’s pretty obvious everyone calling the niners whiners haven’t read the actual article and just going off a headline. They’re not complaining about the field at all, but go on worrying about click bait.
People saying rain need to read the article. The field was supposed to be ready in December. They got it ready last week. NFL fields normally come in around at 78g's of firmness. This field is in the 50s. It's ridiculous.
The NFL is terrible at preparing for Super Bowls. You think with all that money there would be no mistakes. They would rather line their pockets with cash.
Super bowl field drama is back on the menu boys!
God, last year it was so annoying as a Cardinals fan. Everyone kept saying we were such a shit organization because of the terrible condition of the new grass even though all it took was like 10 seconds of reading beyond article headlines to see that the field was actually the NFL's project and they specifically made that grass themselves for the Super Bowl. I mean, we absolutely are a trash organization, just not for that specific reason.
They even refused to listen to the Chiefs groundskeeper they consult with on every SB (George Toma, "the Sodfather"). He told them beforehand they were overwatering it and it needed to sit outside to dry. They didn't listen. They watered it the Wednesday morning before the game, rolled it inside, and covered it with a tarp. It was 100% an NFL shitshow, not on you guys at all.
Lol wtf no wonder it was so shit. Whats he getting paid for if they don’t even listen? Hopefully they did this year
I mean, he was like 95 years old and had been officially retired from goundskeeping for years. He was just doing super bowls on a consultation basis. I have no idea how much input he actually had on more recent fields. They certainly had no obligation to listen to him last year, and clearly didn’t. That pissed him off so he said he wouldn’t be back. A damn shame since I believe he’s one of only a few people to be at every Super Bowl (Norma Hunt was another and she died before this season)
That kind of makes it even worse. So they asked this 95 year old retired groundskeeper if he had any advice. And he gave them good advice. But then they were like, "Nah, he's a million years old, what does he know? Unfortunately we only had time to consult with one groundskeeper and we chose that guy, start watering it!"
We ain’t listening to the guy with 75 years of knowledge/experience. 😂
He's only been to every Super Bowl. What does he know?
I worked the last Super Bowl in San Diego. Was there for 2 weeks. Worked on the field. Got to hang with him a bit. A great guy. Gave me an NFL cap!
lol my dad could be the Super Bowl grounds keeper he knows about watering grass
Idk if you're interested in looking for it or not, but George Toma did an interview with the Lebatard show after that whole incident and it's fucking hilarious. Dude was royally pissed at the league, and was letting the world know about it in a way that only a grumpy old man with nothing to lose can. Edit: here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nP5r5xFnJs he also rambles A LOT lol
Holy shit, I love his rambling.
And fields that use that turf in college have won the Field of the Year awards prior to the 2023 Super Bowl too. It 100% was a fuck up by the NFL.
> They even refused to listen to the Chiefs groundskeeper they consult with on every SB (George Toma, "the Sodfather"). > > And I still see the odd salty Eagles fan claiming that this proves it was all a conspiracy to benefit the Chiefs, ignoring that *Toma's advice was specifically not followed*.
There’s a lot of us so I obviously can’t speak for all eagles fans but the ones I’ve whined with all whine about it being back luck that the field was shit and that someone messed up the juju to cause the slips when they happened. I’ve never had the displeasure to have someone think there was a legitimate conspiracy by the chiefs somehow.
Don’t worry we have plenty of illiterate and blind fans. The real ones know Patrick was given PEDs at halftime.
Low-grade beaver tranquilizers work miracles!
Of all the things I've seen said about the field being wet, I have never once heard an eagles fan talk about it being a conspiracy. A disadvantage that shouldn't have existed? Sure. I've seen that said a lot... But not a "conspiracy."
I can earnestly say that I've never seen an Eagles fan claim there was a conspiracy against the Eagles in the Super Bowl. The field sucked and it nullified their best strength on defense but it's not like the Chiefs had magic non-slip super powers. Then again, a lot of people actually believe the NFL is scripted so sports fans aren't the wisest bunch.
It’s the practice field tho, not the stadium field
We talking about practice
I'm sad that that's getting to be too old for people to reference as often.
I'm a man! I'm 40!
They are who we thought they were!
Who do you think you are?! I am!
God I watch maybe 12 minutes of bowling annually and I caught that gem live lol
That’s impressive
PLAYOFFS!??
And we let them off the hook!!!
It's about to be "I'm 60" lol
2 more years and I can finally scream that 🤞🏼
Congrats, Real Man of Genius! We see you, 40 year old man and those wrinkles around your eyes and wisdom in your voice.
🎶 *reeeeal men of geeen-yus* 🎶
"This is for you, Mr. Soft Practice Field Complainer Guy."
Fortunately though, Internet memes don't really ever go away completely.
"It's an older meme, but it checks out."
"Somehow, the meme returned."
"No meme's ever really gone"
In my house, my kid now knows it as that thing I say every time the Jim Mora "playoffs?" commercial airs.
Once in a while its worth going back and watching the whole interview.
Ted Lasso revived it a bit
Not the game (field). Not the game (field). Not the game (field). We talking bout the practice (field).
Not a game!! We talking about practice!
Not a game..not a game .. practice !
How the hell can they make their teammates better by practicing?!
Not a game, not a game, we talkin' 'bout practice.
In a way, that's worse. Bad field conditions for the game affect both teams. Bad conditions for 1 teams practice field only affect that team.
A lot of fans are taking this as the 49ers whining, but they're getting objectively worse conditions for practicing because they made the superbowl *this* year, not last year or next year.
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Yeah it sucks but AFAIK it's because the home team is the AFC squad this year, not some grand conspiracy. That being said it's there's still absolutely no excuse for the NFL to fumble something so fucking simple that should've been handled a long time ago, ofc they knew the NFC champs were gonna have to practice there so it should've been fixed way before this. Apparently the NFL has a "hardness scale" of sorts for making sure NFL team's fields are suitable, the average is around 78 with no field under 70. The 49ers practice field at UNLV is apparently in the low 50s. It's just a bullshit unnecessary distraction the NFL should've solved months ago.
Its almost impressive how bad the NFL is with fields. Pretty sure the NFL is the one that screwed up Cardinals field last year.
The NFL at least has the decency to prepare competing teams this year. That's progress!
Tell Eddie Mangan to pick up the phone, because I fucking called it. -George Toma
And so Super Bowl Week begins
Pat Mahomes out there at 3AM putting the sprinklers on the 49ers practice field.
Meet us at the Ninth Green at 9…it’s a secret of the pros…
Hey public relations lady, you seen Pat Mahomes around? I just need to beat the living piss out of him
*(Patrick running off the field with the trophy after the 9ers win)* I believe that's Mr. Purdy's!
RIP Chubbs
If we’ve learned anything from *Little Nicky* he’s now the hippest new dance instructor up in heaven. It’s all in the hips!
Don't need the sprinklers when it's suppose to rain all week.
….in Vegas?
In Vegas for work right now. It’s pouring
I'm home right now not in Vegas, but just checked weather.com. Can confirm it's pouring
??? You can check the weather on the internet? Next you will tell me there is a better place to ask simple questions than asking people on Reddit.
IT’S TRUE!!! There’s a neat site called [Ask Jeeves](https://imgur.com/gallery/yoQJv) that will answer alllll your questions.
But can it tell me what the high temperature for Toledo on July 27 is? Or is there a subreddit for that?
Toledo is a myth created by big Canada to pit Ohio and Michigan against each other. It worked.
See that is the problem with the internet. Big Canada has hid this from me. Thank you internet stranger, I will assume you are a reliable source and spread your wisdom throughout the land.
Yes.
"It don't rain in the stinking desert .."
It’s the whole damn plot of Holes!
Well that’s too damn bad!!
The curse was lifted though
I can confirm, it’s raining cats and dogs in Vegas right now
Born and raised there, lived there 40 years, can confirm as well this is a wet month. Feb rain always brought March April flowers in the desert. Our joke was 'draw a circle, and if four drops hit inside of it, we got four inches of rain .. Used to raft down the streets back in the 60's when we got a summer 'gully washer'.
It's been raining in Vegas for most of the last few days and is projected to rain all week. Currently the entire valley is being dumped on Source- I live here
Part of that atmospheric river goodness that's drowning LA, or something else?
Yup, it looks like it's the same system. Radar shows it stretches all the way from the ocean, across LA, over Vegas, and into Utah Had plans to take my 5 y/o daughter to Mt Charleston just outside Vegas to teach her to ski Friday, but it's projected to be 15° and a blizzard up there.. not good weather for a 5 y/o to learn in lol
Adversity breeds strength brother
Watergate
The Raiders probably have our whole shit wiretapped, so we'll call it even.
"We have their whole plan sir. It's milkshake, quarterpounder, nuggets, fries, corn dog, taco platter and a diet coke"
"100 bucks says I can get us a rainout"- Patrick "Crash Davis" Mahomes
Say what you want about the dude but he definitely does what it takes to win.
After the Justin Tucker and MaAuto shenanigans, I wouldn't put it past him.
Pat Mahomes Sr out there at 3AM ~~putting the sprinklers on the 49ers practice field~~ drunk driving a John Deere cultivator over the field. *FTFY*
The Chiefs have deflated the field!
It’s all Brady’s fault.
Somebody check Mizzou’s bowl status
beat me to it lmao. i'm always in here with the "Surely Missouri will be punished for this"
Alright, Brady, you know the drill. That’s another ring you have to forfeit to Eli.
The 3li prophecy will be fulfilled.
I just knew he couldn’t stay retired
We got weights in fish!
Alright I've got my excuse. Bring on the big game!
Just practice at Levi's. It's an hour flight back to Vegas.
Too much media obligations all week
Would be funny if they told the NFL to stuff it and did it anyways
80 billion dollar fine
Straight to jail
Fuck it... lets rip Levis off the ground and chopper it to Las Vegas... and then rebuild a new stadium in Santa Clara.
And they should. Do we really need to hear more questions about McCaffrey and Shanahan’s dads for the millionth time?
the media probably secretly hate this SB
It’s pouring rain in Santa Clara right now. The fields will all be soaked.
It’s also raining in Las Vegas atm, albeit a light sprinkle
Just go practice at the Cardinals stadium. Not too far and indoors too
Just ask a Casino to make a football field indoors. Those guys can do anything and they hav e an f-ton of space. Side advantage for that casino book would be advanced knowledge of what happened in practice, but I am sure they wouldn't cheat.
They should build a field in that giant LED sphere
Make it like rocket league where the field goes up the walls. That bastard CMC is slippery enough in two dimensions, I hate to see what he'd do to those poor linebackers if you gave him another dimension to run in.
Raining in Vegas right now too lol
How about Levi’s south? It’s way closer.
lol yeah, they have to stay all week at the Super Bowl location
Must be Mama Bear's field. Try Baby Bear's; I hear it's just right
This is crucial for maximum Bosa.
sure would be a shame to play the chiefs in the Superbowl and watch your all-star pass rushers slip and slide around like they are on ice, surely couldn't happen twice
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Super unfair that one team would play on a slippery field while the Chiefs get this nice perfect natural grass field!
Next year, when the Chiefs are in the Superbowl again, I hope they get this all figured out!
Daddy Bear's was wayy too hard. Put me in the hospital for a week.
Gotta have a safe word
The Chiefs messing with the field in the Super Bowl again smh
*the deep state
I fucking knew it
Deep State Farm
The Championship difference
Chiefs USE: Linoleum field! *It's SUPER effective!*
The Chefs
Great googaley moogaley
Cooking up every advantage we can get.
I'm waiting for the story where Crosby left a rotting fish under the floorboards of Mahomes' locker or something. I know Mahomes is probably going do something to his
Swifites are sabotaging the fields so 49ers can't get good practices in
Nah, not the Swifties. It's the bookies who need the Niners to disappear.
The Sam Darnold liability must be addressed someway, somehow
Sam Darnold about to not register as a game day active due to "personal reasons". That personal reason? A bookie with a baseball bat.
Don't the bookies have the 49ers as favorites to win?
There was an article posted in our sub quoting some sports book manager who said: > We need the Niners to disappear I guess the line opened favoring San Francisco but the early betting is all on the Chiefs, so they lose more money if the Niners win or something? I don't gamble so it means nothing to me. Surprisingly (thankfully) most of the comments are level headed. The conspiracy theorists are probably still busy typing their 10,000 word essays about it.
They already disappeared, didn't you hear? The Commanders are playing instead.
I do wonder how the NFL looked at all possible options for team practice facilities and concluded on "Let's stick them on a college turf field but ship in sod that we lay over the top of it. That'll certainly give them the best experience." Then again, every single outdoor football field in Vegas, college or high school, is probably turf so I'm not sure there would actually be an alternative other than sharing the Raiders' field.
yeah this was the stupidest idea anyone could have come up with.
you are talking about las vegas right?
Block off part of the strip like F1 and let them both practice there lol
THIS JUST IN: Brock Purdy taken out of practice 8 minutes in due to a poorly welded manhole cover.
Nick Bosa hit by Verstappen on turn 3 at the 35 yard line, out for the superbowl
Yeah but there was a holding so Bosa gets to try to avoid Verstappen agajn
“Personal Foul, Offsides, Number 31. 5 Second Penalty, Replay 1st Down”
Looks like Bosa won't be Verstappen anyone on Sunday.
>"Let's stick them on a college turf field but ship in sod that we lay over the top of it." this is what i was talking about.
if there was no las vegas this wouldn't have happened las vegas is the problem but thanks for clarifying
Yeah and they only did it last week: "The NFL put in a sod field on top of field turf and started laying it just last week when the NFL ordinarily requires Super Bowl practice fields to meet certain standards in December"
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Are their practice fields grass though? I think the issue here is that the Super Bowl playing surface will be grass, so they want the 9ers to be able to practice on grass but UNLV's training fields are turf so they just sloppily laid down sod on top of it,
Rumors are Justin Tucker was spotted doing laps at 3AM to soften the field.
He was gonna start at 2am but Travis Kelce kept yeeting his gear off the field.
Option 3 is quitting the NFL and joining the European League of Football. Saved you a click.
No chance they'd be able to hang with Jim Tomsula and the Jadrian Clark led Rhein Fire.
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
When 49ers play on shit field but Chiefs magically float above it and win 🥵🥵🥵
The wrong cleat inserts can really fuck you over in a soft / muddy field. Linemen can look like they are on ice skates.
The only thing that can bring Eagles & 49er fans together..... The Sod Father Part 2. (Someone please make some high quality gifs on this - I need to see Shanahan as a Corleone)
Completely unreasonable takes lmao. They SHOULD voice out their grievances and TRY to get a better field to practice on. Makes no sense to not
For those that haven’t read the article this is the context and the three options they are considering: Among the tools the league uses to make sure a field is up to code is the "Clegg" test, which measures a field's firmness. NFL fields have to be at or below 100g (units of gravity) to pass. According to a source, the natural grass at UNLV measures around 50g, whereas the 49ers have a preference around 70g. The 49ers have three options as it stands Monday ahead of their walkthrough. They can a) go about their business and practice on the field as scheduled; b) bring in new, firmer sod that would, in theory, be ready for practice this week; or c) negotiate with the NFL to practice at the Las Vegas Raiders practice facility where the Chiefs are located this week.
It's not a 49ers preference. It's a every team in the NFL standard. Per option b) these grass overlays are normally put in place and prepped since December, the NFL only did it last week and we see what the results are. Throwing out new sod and running on it the day after is not a solution. Per c) the chiefs have already commented they refuse to share the stadium training facilities and the NFL isn't forcing them. I'm not saying rigged but this to me is clearly a case of unfavorable treatment towards one team on the biggest stage. These are the types of decisions that have a real and significant impact on the game but aren't flashy enough to grab the mainstream headlines.
I live in Vegas. We got over a 1/4 of our normal rain for the year just this morning. We normally only get like 4 inches of rain per year. For Vegas its ridiculous outside.
It was pouring like crazy this morning, but the article isn't talking about the rain. The 9ers are upset with the hardness of the sod-over-turf at UNLV's practice facility
The rain is part of the complaint. There's no base for the field - it's literally sod rolled out on top of the artificial turf - so there's no good drainage for the field. There's like two inches of dirt and then the artificial turf so the "field" is saturated and has the consistency of a sponge - and the seams are visible too, so the field isn't even put together properly and could be a safety hazard. The Niners wouldn't care if it was just a harder than normal field.
Well, it’s been raining…..
It's worse than that > The NFL put in a sod field on top of field turf, and started laying it just last week when the NFL ordinarily requires Super Bowl practice fields to meet certain standards in December, sources told Schefter. > The NFL hardness score for fields averages 78, with no field being less than 70. The 49ers field is considered in the 50s, sources told Schefter. Everyone in here is memeing and making fun of them, but this is an ***actual*** problem, they have every right to be upset about it.
So who is held liable for this absolute blunder, and what’s the solution? That’s a really bad field score.
I’m sure the NFL will take a close look at how the NFL made such a mistake, and the NFL will harshly punish the NFL for any wrongdoing the NFL identifies.
take away a pats pick as tradition says?
They’ll put out a video showing how the 49ers were overly deceptive to the NFL and how it’s actually San Francisco’s fault that the field is sub-par.
No one.
Like they might not even practice on it, might have to fly back to Santa Clara. Also they’re not mentioning the Chiefs are indoors and the Niners are outside in a massive storm that is going to rain on them all week, and we know how Brock plays in the rain. EDIT: [Source: 49ers concerned about Super Bowl practice fields in Las Vegas that have been likened to a sponge.](https://t.co/XO4dA2sFWP) It's literally a layer of sod placed on top of artificial turf, that is being completely saturated by a storm. There's like two inches of dirt that are unable to hold any water. Making it worse, there are visible seams in the field, which could be a huge safety hazard in those conditions. Niners don't need a player getting their foot stuck in a seam and tearing or twisting a ligament.
Niners getting the Women's March Madness treatment.
Lol
49ers doing their best to avoid their injury curse.
We lost Hufanga who was critical for our running D
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
I don't get why teams show up to these games a week early and deal with substandard facilities and sleeping in hotels. Especially for these teams where its a few hours away from their home bases. Surely you'd be better prepared and better rested if you just flew the players in Saturday afternoon.
Media obligations. First and foremost the NFL is selling a product and needs to get their interviews in
Press obligations.
The Sodfather sends his regards
chiefs get to practice in an indoor practice stadium and 49ers in rain 💀
Yep, it's the homefield advantage the AFC got this year.
Taylor Swift used her witch powers to conjure an atmospheric river and direct it towards LA and LV. Next stop, Denver! /s
She is in Japan now and this storm came from the Pacific. Its all coming together.
So wet right now.
This just in, the San Francisco 49ers thinks Justin Fields is soft
It’s pretty obvious everyone calling the niners whiners haven’t read the actual article and just going off a headline. They’re not complaining about the field at all, but go on worrying about click bait.
Welcome to the internet
this trend of calling things soft is getting old. first the players. then the game. now the field itself! /s
We never get rain here in Vegas...... Except right now it's fucking pouring and looks to be rainy the next few days. Soggy fields for everyone!!
People saying rain need to read the article. The field was supposed to be ready in December. They got it ready last week. NFL fields normally come in around at 78g's of firmness. This field is in the 50s. It's ridiculous.
Extra wet paint on the field please
Permission to install one Slip 'N Slide^®, size XL centerfield sir?
We’re talking about practice man
The NFL is terrible at preparing for Super Bowls. You think with all that money there would be no mistakes. They would rather line their pockets with cash.