Comments on: Pete Carroll says FedEx Field was “horrible”

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:28:41 +0000

Seattle hasn’t played in a dome in over 10 years, and a number of Skins players have torn their ACLs on that field. How’s that for home field advantage?

By: tomahawk903

tomahawk903 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:15:37 +0000

Oh quit the Whining..This is the NFL and thats why they call it Home Field Advantage. If the other teams want it to go to hell, then so be it..let it go..Maybe Carrol can get rid of the dome and play football how it was meant to play..OUTSIDE!

By: 8to80texansblog

8to80texansblog — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:01:27 +0000

I put this on Dan Snyder. He had the opportunity to re-sod the field after the regular season and didn’t do it.

Did you see the field for the national championship game…. a week after the Orange Bowl was played in the same stadium… It looked PRISTINE!!!! It almost looked painted on….

I don’t know if the field caused these injuries… but watching the game, I knew the NFL Wildcard logos had been recently applied and it looked like they hade 15 games played on them already….

Inexcusable…

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:59:13 +0000

It is a little ridiculous that the field isn’t pristine with the technology and money available to these teams. The sports industry has plenty of choices when it comes to playing surfaces. I’m sure that it was just penny pinching that caused the surface to get so bad. The thing is, the economy may be terrible, but the NFL is still making millions of dollars, there is no excuses for a shoddy field. Take care of business Skins!

By: txnative61

txnative61 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:59:19 +0000

For the record I saw that field against Dallas and said it was made for Marshawn Lynch. Petey (finally) agreed and pounded him down their throat. Snyder’s frugality and player safety aside, it does not favor the RGIII/Morris style of play. As for grass purists, there was less grass in the middle than a typical High School stadium, for whatever reason. For those of us longing for a return to nitty gritty down and dirty old fashioned football, its pointless. Simply too great an investment nowadays, except on Fed Ex field.

By: bkostela

bkostela — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:34:03 +0000

18 teams play on grass and 14 play on field turf. arizona has the best field hands down, and they play on natural grass. the california and florida teams also all have beautiful grass field (except oakland and miami who play on baseball fields through october). the other 11 grass fields are scattered across the country, but washington, chicago, pittsburgh, cleveland, oakland and philly should all be forced to install field turf, as their surfaces have been wretched over the past several years.

you would think that the few million dollars it costs to put in the field turf would be worth not having your 100+ million dollars worth of players running on a dangerous surface for eight games a season (10 counting preseason)

By: nofunleague

nofunleague — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:51:48 +0000

I wonder what did the most damage yesterday. the few really petty helmet-to-helmet touches or that lousy field. The league has made every attempt to penalize even the slightest helmet contact taking the good hits out of football. Thats what the helmets are for you morons. Also on the back of the helmet is a disclaimer sticker with the verbage about football being a collision sport, and injuries could, …….blah blah blah. But let’s not worry about the condition of the field, I mean after all what could possibly happen.

By: southpaw447

southpaw447 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:35:56 +0000

If Clemons hadn’t been injured in this game, Pete wouldn’t care how bad the field conditions were. Just being a whiner as usual.

By: japmen

japmen — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:34:42 +0000

I hate agreeing with Carroll about anything but this time it happened. Player safety my butt! I still think Shannahan should be fined for RGs injury especially after Andrews said he didnt give permission a week ago.

By: edisbetterthantroy

edisbetterthantroy — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:25:05 +0000

This is not meant to be insensitive, but Griffin III’s injury probably had more to do with the fact he was playing with half a knee anyway. I thought he was lucky to have his leg still attached after the Ngata hit a few weeks ago. It was brutal. Great talent, but he plays a dangerous brand of QB.

What about “player safety” being a priority here? Another example that it’s all about the money. Treating a field is expensive.

$$$$ > Player Safety in the eyes of the NFL execs and owners.

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:19:26 +0000

Falcons fans should be silent. I can’t fathom how a team that has never been relevant, and are notorious chokers can be so overconfident, when previous incarnations of the Falcons had reason to be confident and got STOMPED. This team has less of a reason to be confident and their fans are running around babbling like Packer fans were before the divisional playoff last year.

By: jg725

jg725 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:13:56 +0000

“There’s no excuse for anything other than pristine playing conditions at every NFL stadium. The league obsesses over uniformity in every other way. Why not obsess over the quality of the surface on which the game is played?

Until the league insists on the use of the best possible fields in every venue, any further comments regarding player safety should be viewed as self-serving rhetoric. (Then again, many already are viewing those comments that way.)”

I don’t agree with you very often florio – but you’re 100% right on this one.

By: chuckleberry1974

chuckleberry1974 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:06 +0000

I think there are inspection procedures for all of the NFL stuff at stadiums, like the radio equipment working, video boards working, etc etc. I would have bet that field conditions and whatnot would have been part of that, especially week of playoff game scenarios. Re-sodding that surface after failing an early week inspection would have been doable one would think. Jerry never would have let that happen

By: savannahrose44

savannahrose44 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:13 +0000

Redskins owner should be billed for all of Clemons’ medical expenses from this injury. The neglect of FedEx field was entirely to blame for this.

By: rukkus1

rukkus1 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:47 +0000

Seems like the place to go if year want a 1 year break from the game.

By: granadafan

granadafan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:27 +0000

FedEx should demand a partial refund for their name being associated with such a crappy field in their stadium. They paid tens of millions of dollars and now their investment is blowing up in their faces.

By: allhail76

allhail76 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:05 +0000

its called home field advantage…except it backfired.

By: ambitoos

ambitoos — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:51 +0000

Goodell should be suspeded for a year for not overseeing this. It’s his job to protect the players. They won’t hold a superbowl in Qualcome stadium because it’s to old but the field is always in excellent shape. Goodell has no credibility with anybody anymore. The jerks nothing but a bully.

By: mineallmine001

mineallmine001 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:09:12 +0000

To the chump talking about lambeau not freezing and being natural.

lambeau field is a hybrid natural/artificial field.

By: youngstownbengalsfan

youngstownbengalsfan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:08:26 +0000

You’re right Pete. If this keeps up players using PED’s and throwing cheap shots might hurt someone!

By: hawkfan50

hawkfan50 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:05:14 +0000

On a side note ; great game by London Fletcher yesterday . 15 tackles ! Turf apparently didn’t bother him much – last game I’m hearing .

By: ballboy48

ballboy48 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:56:21 +0000

Cleveland has underground piping under the field that heat the grass to 65′, so it can grow all year.

Pulled this from their site.

Playing Field: The field is a Kentucky Bluegrass irrigated field with a sand-soil root zone and an underground heating system containing nine boilers and 40 miles of underground piping. The heating system helps to keep the field from freezing and extends the growing season of the turf. Field has been designed to accommodate international soccer as well, with dimensions of 69 yards by 114 yards.

C’mon Snyder! Don’t be so cheap!

By: draculalambert

draculalambert — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:54:55 +0000

I admire him and he is correct most of time about everything.

By: wgray981

wgray981 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:53:53 +0000

Cry me a river. I am getting sick of all these changes. What ever happened to tough guys playing the game…now they can’t even play on mud?
Pretty soon they’ll be wearing skirts and playing flag football.

By: liddogg33

liddogg33 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:53:05 +0000

hey packerbadger… id be more concerned about san fran then pete carroll.. i for one pray we get you again so i can stop hearing about how the packers got robbed.. after seattle beats you by 21 in lambeau there wont be much more to complain about.. thats of course if you can make it out of san fran!!

GO HAWKS!!!

By: advocado5

advocado5 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:45:41 +0000

When the Eagles were in the playoffs, they re-sodded the field. It’s embarrassing FedEx field was like that.

By: beanocook

beanocook — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:42:31 +0000

NFL can’t afford great fields. They don’t have the kind of money major college football programs do.

Name one time a college field looked like this?

By: mazblast

mazblast — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:45 +0000

jersey73 says:

The Patriots call a crappy field “homefield advantage”. Remember those Foxboro playoff games against the Colts when they purposely left the field uncovered?
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That is totally different. It was the Patriots, one of the two teams (the Giants being the other) towards which The Great Roger Goodell Himself Live And In Person casts a completely blind eye unless absolutely bullied into noticing.

That field was disgusting yesterday. It was even worse than the RFK Stadium “Sands Of Iwo Jima” surface back in the days of The Hogs. Daniel Snyder should have done something about it years ago, didn’t, saw his team and image pay the price Sunday, and will undoubtedly be forced into doing something now. That’s before the inevitable selective and large fine from Goodell.

By: bayarea510

bayarea510 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:42 +0000

The Oakland Raiders have a giant dirt Diamond in the middle of their field for half the season and its still a better field then what I saw at FedEx last night.

By: ilovefoolsball

ilovefoolsball — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:35 +0000

The NFL does not care about the safety of the players.
They only care about lawsuits. So lawyer up Clemons and make them suspend Snyder for a year.