The Tremendous Bowl is just a very powerful sport of the 12 months. And ensuring the grass turf inside State Farm Stadium was in immaculate situation at kickoff was paramount. And the league failed. Just a few gamers for each the Chiefs and Eagles have slipped on the enjoying floor, greater than what occurs in a standard NFL sport.

Clearly, sustaining a pure floor in the midst of February, in Arizona’s local weather no much less, is a problem. But, that is the second-straight high-profile sport to have this subject at State Farm Stadium. The Faculty Soccer Playoff semifinal between TCU and Michigan additionally had gamers slipping everywhere in the discipline. Each the NCAA and NFL ought to give severe consideration to by no means enjoying a vital sport in Glendale once more.

“For this one, clearly, we’re giving it a bit of further care,” mentioned Nick Pappas, who is without doubt one of the NFL’s discipline floor administrators, to the Related Press this week. “We’ve acquired quite a lot of groundskeepers right here for a few month, placing eyes on it, placing palms on it, engaged on all of it day, on daily basis, getting it prepared for sport day.”

State Farm Stadium, the house venue for the Arizona Cardinals, normally rolls its discipline into place on one huge monitor and brought out to be maintained off-sit and to host different large-scale live shows and occasions. Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium hosts subsequent 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl and has the same course of for sustaining its discipline. The NFL altering its course of to take higher care of its discipline is required for subsequent season’s finale.