saying that these games need to be played on grass. Here's
Jerry Jones from yesterday. Morning's just rolled out of
bed and
smoking a, cigar, and drinking some more Johnnie Walker. Blue,
I'm kidding appearance on 1053 The Fan about whether or not.
There's a problem
with playing on artificial turf. Here he is.
Our league stats, don't see issues with the type of surface that
we have, as opposed to Natural Gas. We don't see issues, no
facts, bear that out.
Not. Now look I mean first of all anecdotally it's just not
true. We've seen the difference between non-contact problems on
Turf and on grass and we know anybody that's walked on
an artificial turf field and walked on a grass field or run
on it knows. There's more give its softer,
you're less likely to get injured on grass. There
wouldn't be so many voices of people who are down there in
that pit. Saying
why can't we play on grass if they didn't think grass was
better? Stats. He's referring to it deals with the incident
rate on Turf versus grass and apparently, last year
last year, the non-contact injuries
on grass and artificial turf
were equivalent. Well before that,
it was skewed toward Turf. So just because there's one year
like this, the, the field didn't magically become better.
One year to me is a statistical, anomaly.
Let's see what happens this year. Let's see what happens
next year. They get lucky. They have one year where the numbers
match up and so they say, there's no problem. I mean
that's BS to me, Chris?
Well, yeah, it is it's cherry. Picking is what it is
and it's cherry picking and
they know it's not right. And okay, that's non-contact
injuries to how about, what about like head injuries?
Because I see the guys get the in the, you know, what do you,
what do you
call that? The fencing pose
a lot more on filter?
I mean, to hit his head just as hard on grass forward.
Is earlier, he's on field Turf, and look what happened.
I feel like we've seen the number of the scary
fencing poses. More of them are more of them seem to happen on
fieldturf because of the re shock. Okay.
No football player wants to play on that field Turf
compared to the grass. Nobody, why don't you ask Jerry Jones.
Hey Jerry why is it that every time I watch your practices
then why is in your team on the field Turf surface? You got at
the facility? Why are they always on the grass? Why
are is that because the
The players have said we don't want to be on the field Turf
every day, we feel it in our body. It doesn't make us feel
good. So stop with the b******* and a fellow owners, okay?
And I don't understand it. I don't, I know they can have
concerts and that's all it's about, is that money? But damn,
I guess they make a lot more money than that, than
the non-contact guy that tours knee up and you had to pay him.
10.10 million dollars are not playing for you that year.
I guess they're making their money. Any idea,
the idea is, it's too difficult to have a grass field. If
you're gonna have all these other events, You do and it's
kind of hard to retrofit an already built Stadium to put in
the system like they have in Arizona and all his vague.
Well, he,
you know, that's good
- yeah, but it done it could have done it. Your billionaire
start doing this crap and stop danger. And guys, you only have
a short time to play on a Surface, that's not good for
them. I mean period, the nail on the head though,
you hit the nail on the head because the thing about statistics,
you can make statistics, say, whatever you want, if you,
if you twist the variables just enough. So. Hey, oh, look at
this non-contact. T' is the same but you're right hitting
your head against the turf. It's different if it's grass
than if it's artificial turf or Chris just having your leg
caught exactly. Doing somebody's hitting you exactly.
It doesn't mean anything right? Your leg. Could be extra
caught. Yeah. And maybe last year was a year where
you know, it just it. Yeah, the numbers didn't bear out but
you're right. Your leg non-contact, you know, our
contact, let's say contact on grass your make, you're about
to make that cut go in this way, right? And you plant that
leg,
okay? No, again, I would feel much better about doing that as
I'm getting hit on a grass field as compared to a field
turf field.
You know, because we see on grass at the, you know, the
the cleat goes, the goes it. Tears up planet, right? It grabs it's
more likely to grab on fieldturf. We've seen that,
that's the thing.
These kind of stats that don't mesh with the anecdotal
evidence. The things we see with our eyes, the things we
hear with our ears from the people who are in the sport who
have a vested interest in their health, versus the people who
run, The sport and have a vested interest in their bank
account.
That's, that's weird. That that's where the two sides
don't come together. Well, agreed, I'd Chad, I want to
challenge. I got again, I want to chat. I want to throw
the challenge flag here and like, show me
where I don't remember injuries on grass, nearly to
the competitive to the same standard of Odell in the Super
Bowl on fieldturf. Ojc Jackson
on that same field. Field Turf this year.
Oh, oh, Odell Beckham jr. In Cincinnati. Right. Same thing.
Non-contact
Sterling Shepherd right? Jogging down the field. Where
was that on? Okay, I don't see those happening on grass,
that's where it's bull. It's bull crap. I don't buy it at
all. Let alone. All you got to do is talk to players.
All you got to do, none of them are going to tell you oh yes
the same filters, cool none and let alone. Mike like you always
hear me say
there's a reason
the Ronaldo's in the mess, a mess, he's of the soccer World.
They don't ever play on that stuff. They come over here to
America, they play A all these games in the summer and and get
great crowds and then they plant a field turf field and
they
don't play because it's in their contract, you know, it's
not in their contract because although it's the same as
grass, it's in their contract because
it's theirs, is it does not feel the same for an athlete
and it makes you not feels good while you're playing and it
makes you not feel as good the next day either and that's
where I won't buy it and I'm never going to back down from
this. That's a bull crap.
Non player. Safety comment right there by Jerry Jones.
The only player who
in my recollection in recent months
that has come close to saying, I have no problem with it was J
Alan Ramsey and
when you look at his foe comments, two things stood out.
One, he seems resigned to the fact that the business
realities aren't going to change it. So there's no point
complaining about it. And number two, there was that
that Macho will play on broken glass. If we have to hear you
coming out as well, like you don't want to be perceived as
complaining about it. You know
what play Anytime Anyplace anywhere on any surface in any
setting, it doesn't matter. That's how we feel about
football. And that's fine. But everybody else says, grass,
grass, grass. And when coach has come out and say grass,
yeah, they want their players to be available. They want
their best players to be available. They see guys
getting injured on Turf, more than they're getting injured on
grass, that's a problem. Look at what it did to the 49ers
season in 2020
that game at MetLife Stadium.
Yeah, there you go. Do you round it all those injuries?
And it was weak weak to? I think
it Horrible. I know that's where again, I don't you know,
I don't doubt it injuries or happening on grass and all
that, but
my mind and I'm, you know
what? I want to watch on football. It certainly seems like
you know, fieldturf is a whole lot more dangerous
and I do want to challenge those stats. I mean, it's like,
it's one of those where I want to go up. Gosh, who's going to
actually go back and look at all that. Anyways, and who
knows what they value is
in some of that stuff to either way but either way, we know
the players don't like it. Didn't we have some tweets to from
players that kind of showed their disregard for it?
I thought.
Sorry, I messed up. Yeah, I
know, but, but it's all, it's, it's,
it's all
uniform and Universal.
They want grass period. That's what players want, right? And,
and they get it, some places, they don't get it. Others. And
look at you be a factor fertile Beckham jr.
As well. Yeah, I ate, it should be. It should be at least one
of them. I don't know if the two knee surgeries and realtor
Should be one of the factors.
Yeah, it definitely should be. I mean
I would think about it. I would if I was him, especially when
it's twice that you've been hurt the same type of way.
I planted my foot and to field Turf with nobody around me and
my leg got stuck
and my foot got stuck and then therefore my knee buckled
and I lost significant amounts of money
and snaps in my career that I'll never get back. So
I would think that's you No
on his radar a little bit.
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