London Stadium

[RobbRiddick]

11 minutes ago, BearNorth said:

Apparently they have a grass field below the artificial surface and that's what they play their type of football [we call it soccer] on.

There is a retractable deck below the artificial turf which probably explains why it feels so hard, since it's probably some sort of steel framed deck.

 

From what I understand, soccer teams don't like American football to be played on their grass pitches, as it tears up the field and takes time to recover.

 

Wonder what today's teams would think about some of the field conditions Bills used to play on in the Rockpile.

Not quite. The grass is on top and splits in two where it is taken into the carpark under UV lights. There's a cool video on YouTube showing the operation, very cool. Those soccer fields can cost around half a million or more to install and maintain so not surprising they don't want NFL teams tearing it all up

[GunnerBill]

37 minutes ago, BearNorth said:

Apparently they have a grass field below the artificial surface and that's what they play their type of football [we call it soccer] on.

There is a retractable deck below the artificial turf which probably explains why it feels so hard, since it's probably some sort of steel framed deck.

 

From what I understand, soccer teams don't like American football to be played on their grass pitches, as it tears up the field and takes time to recover.

 

Wonder what today's teams would think about some of the field conditions Bills used to play on in the Rockpile.

 

This is all basically correct. Although as Rob says above the grass pitch actually rolls off. 

 

Wembley have had major issues with their pitch being used by NFL too close to soccer games. At Spurs they use that field much more and so are even more sensitive. 

Edited October 13, 2023 by GunnerBill