I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but why couldn't these two stadiums keep the grass for the NFL season? It looks great in both stadiums.

I know they tried it with the pallets in Houston for a number of years and that was a disaster. Looks much better now, though.

Has this been discussed by the Texans and Cowboys?

scd88 said:

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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but why couldn't these two stadiums keep the grass for the NFL season? It looks great in both stadiums.

I know they tried it with the pallets in Houston for a number of years and that was a disaster. Looks much better now, though.

Has this been discussed by the Texans and Cowboys?

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Money. With all of the other events during a season that tear up the grass it costs too much to keep replacing it.

Aggie97 said:

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scd88 said:

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I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but why couldn't these two stadiums keep the grass for the NFL season? It looks great in both stadiums.

I know they tried it with the pallets in Houston for a number of years and that was a disaster. Looks much better now, though.

Has this been discussed by the Texans and Cowboys?

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Money. With all of the other events during a season that tear up the grass it costs too much to keep replacing it.

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It is wild to me that the savings by not having real grass outweigh the potential of a CeeDee Lamb or Nico Collins tearing their ACL on turf and the potential losses a team could see from that in ticket sales, playoff runs, etc.

Unfortunately neither of these stadiums was built including the equipment to roll the field outside. The only teams that have stadiums with that technology are Arizona and Las Vegas. Houston's stadium is older so that makes sense, but when the stadium in Dallas was built it absolutely could have been included.

Seven teams from the NFL who normally play on turf had to have grass installed to host World Cup games. In addition to Dallas and Houston there was also Atlanta, New England, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and NY/NJ.

The NFL should mandate grass.

@NFLPlayerProps said:

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The NFL should mandate grass.

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How many teams would need new stadiums if that was the rule? Unless you're going to grandfather in all the teams that currently have indoor stadiums without the roll-out capability.

The field elevation at Cowboys stadium is 4' higher than usual because of the dirt, sand, drainage and sprinkler systems installed. They obviously also had to close the field-level suites to do this.

There's no way they're keeping the grass.

Owners already claim there is no statistical data to prove regular grass is better than turf.