For years, the best and most famous players on the 49ers have called on the NFL to ban turf fields.
, when Emmanuel Moseley tore his ACL in Atlanta, among several other 49ers injuries on turf that week.
About half of the NFL stadiums have some kind of artificial surface, so wholesale changes are unlikely. But NFL players' union president J.C. Tretter wants the owners to take immediate action on a specific kind of turf."The NFL and its experts have agreed with this data and acknowledge that the slit film field is less safe," Tretter.
The seven teams that have slit film turf are the Bengals, Colts, Saints, Lions, Vikings and Giants and Jets . Grass is slightly more expensive to install and maintain, although some experts estimate that the
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