{"id":1742329,"date":"2022-11-17T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742329"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:03:57","slug":"aaron-rodgers-makes-case-to-move-away-from-artificial-turf-fields-time-to-go-all-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaron-rodgers-makes-case-to-move-away-from-artificial-turf-fields-time-to-go-all-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers Makes Case to Move Away From Artificial Turf Fields: \u201cTime to Go All Grass\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faaron-rodgers-makes-case-to-move-away-from-artificial-turf-fields-time-to-go-all-grass%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">The playing surfaces at NFL stadiums have become a hot-button issue in the league over the past several weeks, and the back-to-back MVP is throwing his hat in the ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Green Bay Packers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/aaron-rodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>quarterback Aaron Rodgers<\/u><\/a> made his case for all NFL games to be played on natural grass, becoming the latest NFL player to push for an end to certain types of artificial turfs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Rodgers-Packers.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Aaron Rodgers, #12 of the Green Bay Packers, throws a touchdown pass during the fourth quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field on Nov. 13, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Aaron Rodgers, #12 of the Green Bay Packers, throws a touchdown pass during the fourth quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field on Nov. 13, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Photo by Stacy Revere\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As much as I\u2019ve enjoyed playing indoors over the years on turf, I do think it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/49ers-george-kittle-calls-surface-continuity-nfl-stadiums-done-dealing-crappy-turf\"><u>time to go all grass<\/u><\/a> throughout the league,&#8221; Rodgers said Tuesday. &#8220;I think you would see less of these noncontact injuries that we see on some of the surfaces, and I think that it&#8217;d be a good step in the right direction towards player safety to make the requirement for every field to be grass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/seahawks-veteran-rips-terrible-a-field-conditions-nfls-first-germany-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SEAHAWKS VETERAN RIPS \u2018TERRIBLE A\u2013\u2019 FIELD CONDITIONS IN NFL\u2019S FIRST GERMANY GAME<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked if he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nfl\"><u>confidence in the <\/u><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>league<\/u> <\/a>and its owners to make a quick decision on playing surfaces, Rodgers told reporters he has his doubts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, honestly, I don&#8217;t have a lot of confidence when it comes to the league making that decision without some sort of big vote and gripes from certain owners who don&#8217;t want to spend the money,&#8221; Rodgers told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Aaron-Rodgers14.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Green Bay Packers&#039; Aaron Rodgers, #12, and Christian Watson, #9, celebrate after hooking up for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Green Bay Packers&#8217; Aaron Rodgers, #12, and Christian Watson, #9, celebrate after hooking up for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Matt Ludtke)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This to me is player safety. We, and when I say \u2018we\u2019 I mean the people who negotiated without the players, agreed to 17 games, which wasn&#8217;t about player safety. It was about monetary gains. So, this would be putting your money where your mouth is if player safety is important.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodgers\u2019 comments come days after the NFL Players Association called for an immediate end to the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/nflpa-calls-immediate-replacement-ban-slit-firm-turf-fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>slit-film turf fields<\/u><\/a> throughout the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Advocating for safer working conditions is a core job of our union, and there are few greater examples of this than raising the standards of the fields we practice and play on,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nflpa.com\/posts\/nfl-player-health-safety-lies-beneath-the-surface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NFLPA President JC Tretter wrote<\/u><\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1441278589.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Aaron Rodgers, #12 of the Green Bay Packers, on the field after a win over the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field on Nov. 13, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Aaron Rodgers, #12 of the Green Bay Packers, on the field after a win over the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field on Nov. 13, 2022 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Stacy Revere\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Week after week, we have heard players sound off on the need to improve our fields, too often after a player suffers an injury. This week, we have seen the NFL PR machine go into overdrive to spin a more favorable narrative to what the union and players know is a problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the NFL is serious about their claims that they make data-based decisions and that they care about player safety, then we have some actionable items for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen NFL teams play on turf while 16 play home games on natural grass, according to Pro Football Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Scott Thompson contributed to this report<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Joe Morgan is a Sports Reporter for Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playing surfaces at NFL stadiums have become a hot-button issue in the league over the past several weeks, and the back-to-back MVP is throwing his hat in the ring.\u00a0Green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}