Super Bowl 57: Grand Sporting Event Of The Year Played On A Horrible Slippery Field

The Chiefs defeated the Eagles, 38-35, in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday night. It was an exciting game that was only somewhat hampered by a contentious call in the closing seconds and wholly overshadowed by terrible field conditions that should make the NFL feel ashamed on Monday.

The biggest game of the season for the league was played on a terrible, slick surface that caused players to lose their footing and tumble all over the place.

Take a peek at what the Eagles’ Jake Elliott experienced on a kickoff. Even more so than an NFL game, this shouldn’t occur at the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl 57: Grand Sporting Event Of The Year Played On A Horrible Slippery Field

Super Bowl 2023 players were frantically switching cleats, although ice skates or water shoes could have been a better option.

At halftime, footwear adjustments were attempted when players from the Chiefs and Eagles started stumbling on routes, cutbacks, and kickoffs. However, solutions remained elusive and took some of the spotlight from the Chiefs’ historic 38-35 victory on the turf at State Farm Stadium.

The NFL’s year has not been good. Despite what Roger Goodell declared throughout Super Bowl week, the officials have been poor and that holding call in the last minutes of the game had a significant impact on the result.

Even while poor decisions are inevitable, the league ought to have done a better job of ensuring that the field wouldn’t resemble a hockey rink by taking the necessary precautions.

The construction of this field took more than a few days. The exact opposite! Prior to Sunday night, this was carefully planned and given careful consideration.

Two years!

Yet with all that planning and care the grass surface became the star of the show for all the wrong reasons.

I’m not going to lie: It was the worst field I ever played on,” Eagles pass-rusher Haason Reddick said.

According to ReadHuddleUp.com, the grass was cultivated for two years at a nearby sod farm in Phoenix before this game, placed two weeks earlier, and rolled out each morning for sunshine beneath an open dome at State Farm Stadium. The total price was $800,000.

“Terrible,” Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata said in the losing locker room. It was similar to having fun at a water park.

Two former NFL offensive linemen summed it up succinctly: Fox analyst Mark Schlereth said, “this field is absolute trash” and “the NFL should be absolutely embarrassed,”

While former Giant Marshall Newhouse chimed in that “Arizona’s field being sh—y is the most obvious thing to players but not known collectively. It’s CONSISTENTLY a slick and unstable turf for being grass.”

Reddick changed cleats for additional spikes and couldn’t find a difference.

“I beat my man a couple times and I’m slipping,” Reddick said. “I just couldn’t turn the corner.”

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Even the winning team had complaints.

“The field was kind of terrible,” Chiefs pass-rusher Frank Clark said. “It looked like they laid strips down or something like that to cover up what they had before. We’ve had this problem in Arizona before.”

The fact that the game was played on grass is fantastic. For a variety of factors, including the safety of the players, all NFL stadiums should have grass fields.

However, we just cannot experience the circumstances we did on Sunday night in Arizona. That field was terrible and a complete disgrace.

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