Belichick: Reliant Stadium Turf is "terrible" and source of Welker's Injury

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Originally Posted by Mike

Now, I wish they did not play the Texas Bowl a few days before an NFL game on the same surface. They had taken the endzone and midfield trays and replaced them.

I think that's the real key here. They need to find a better solution for when games are played so closely together and/or when they need to replace ad-hoc trays. In addition, and I'm not sure how or where they manage the trays, but the weather down here over the last month has been fairly sporadic so I could see where the consistency of the palettes from one location to another (say ones from an off-site location to those that might have remained in the stadium throughout the month) might be differerent. I have no idea what the solution is (maybe demo the dome and build an indoor sod garden? ), but I do not like the field-turf solution. If this was such a problem, then wouldn't more of our players be complaining or having serious injuries considering they play on that field more than anyone? Sure they're employed by the Texans, but you think they'd still complain or you'd hear more complaints from ex-players and/or opposing players.