From What are we gonna do about turf fields? by Molly Liebergall in Morning Brew (November 23, 2025):

Rip ’em all up, if it were up to NFL players. It seems nothing has been able to stop synthetic fields—not the league’s widespread preference for real grass, not mounting evidence of safety risks, and not the bad press that follows when serious injuries occur on turf.

The grass vs artificial turf wars in the NFL are not new. I followed the NFL for most of the 2000s and this was a popular sports show debate topic back then. While artificial turf has its detractors, let no one say it did not give rise to the best sports team nickname of all time: The Greatest Show on Turf.