Not all grass field are the same.
While NFL players overwhelmingly prefer grass to artificial turf, they want high-quality grass. At Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, the grass has not been high-quality.
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While it’s come a long way from the Punt That Didn’t Bounce Of 2007, last year’s surface was an embarrassment for the Steelers and the league. (It doesn’t help that Pitt plays there, too, and that on multiple weekends the field had Saturday and Sunday games.)
Via Jack Markowski of SI.com, a new surface has been installed at Acrisure Stadium. Precision Turf announced on Wednesday that the installation of Tahoma 31 Bermudagrass has been completed.
Earlier this year, Steelers owner Art Rooney II acknowledged that the grass field, which drew an F-minus in the annual NFLPA report cards, would be replaced. He also left the door open to a potential switch to artificial turf, if the new version doesn’t perform as intended.
The players would hate that. But they’d hate it less than another bad grass surface in Pittsburgh.
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