NFL to implement new field standards after years of criticism for subpar surfaces

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For a league that rakes in billions of dollars per year, the NFL's inability to maintain standards for its playing fields has always been perplexing. It now appears to be doing something about it.

According to the Associated Press' Josh Dubow, the NFL is introducing new enhanced standards for its surfaces that teams will have to implement by the start of the 2028 season. Each team will reportedly be provided with “a library of approved and accredited NFL fields” before the start of next season.

In the meantime, any new field will have to meet the standards, which are approved by a joint committee with the NFLPA. NFL field director Nick Pappas' comment, via the AP:

“It’s sort of a red, yellow, green effect, where we’re obviously trying to phase out fields that we have determined to be less ideal than newer fields coming into the industry,” he said. “This is a big step for us. This is something that I think has been a great outcome from the Joint Surfaces Committee of the work, the deployment and development of devices determining the appropriate metrics, and ultimately providing us with a way to substantiate the quality of fields more so than we ever have in the past.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/nfl-to-implement-new-field-standards-after-years-of-criticism-for-subpar-surfaces-233806365.html

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