Bengals OT Orlando Brown Is Fed Up With The Super Bowl Turf Excuses From The Eagles

Posted on by Cillian Rice

Eagles players such as C.J Gardener-Johnson have taken to twitter about the field conditions from the Super Bowl and Orlando Brown is sick of the excuses.

By this point we all have heard about how the turf from the recent Super Bowl is Arizona was slippy. But does the public really understand how bad it actually was?

Well to start off, the grass was grown at a local farm in Phoneix and the NFL  spent 2 YEARS getting this turf ready for the big game. The cost? it cost the NFL $800,000 for this turf according to Joe Pompilano.

Players couldn’t even celebrate without slipping. Watch Chiefs 7th round rookie RB, Isiah Pacheco slip as he celebrates scoring a touchdown. The field was so bad that the NFL had people run out on the field as halftime to try and salvage the turf. Clearly it did not work.

It’s July and we are still hearing about the turf from players, and over the course of the off-season the NFL has quietly blamed players for their choice of cleats. However, Former Eagles Saftey C.J Gardener Johnson says he tried 3 different types of studs and every time he was slipping. So it appears the league is trying to cover of their mess regarding the choice in grass.

The result of the game ended up in a narrow Chiefs win 38-35. Eagles players believe the result of the game would have been different had the field conditions been better. Eagles DE Brandon Graham went as far as saying, the Chiefs were ‘blessed’ by the field conditions. Although the conditions may have been poor, the Eagles can’t play victim here because they were not the only team impacted by the poor turf.

C.J Gardner Johnson recently complained about the turf, jokingly calling on the Super Bowl to be “run back”. Orlando Brown wasn’t having any of it and replied saying regardless of the turf, he would have stopped the Eagles front line.

Although the tuft of the field wasn’t ideal, it isn’t fair for one team to play victim. Because the Eagles weren’t the only team struggling on the turf.