er now these days, then thoseplayers try to do too much on turf; their joints,ligaments, and tendons are usually not strong enoughto take that kind of pressure. Players are trying tochange direction faster and your body can only do somuch(Bruener, Tribune). Dawson, despite being proturf, also thinks turf hurts more and you feel soreand worse on turf than you do on grass (Dawson,Tribune). The National Football League Players Association dida survey where 957 professional football playersanswered questions on various topics in the NFL. Inthis survey were questions about artificial turf inthe NFL. Of those 957 participants, 86.6 percentpreferred to play on grass, instead of turf; 94.2percent believed turf is more likely to contribute toinjury; 95.9 percent said turf causes more soreness;89.9 percent said turf is more likely to shorten theircareer; and more than half of the players blameincreased fatigue on turf (DiPaola, Tribune). Theseprofessional players should know what turf does andthat is why the majority believes turf does suchterrible things. NFL players - almost to a man -prefer grass over turf(DiPaola, Tribune). Thesefined tuned athletes should not be subject to turf, sograss should take over every artificial surface. Anyone who has the guts and talent to step on thefootball field should not have the worry of blowingout a knee or ankle with a wrong twist or move. Artificial turf gives them that single worry. No oneshould get hurt from trying to do a normal movementwithout any contact. Why would any pro team ownerwant to risk losing a player that they pay tremendousdollars for? They do not want that risk. There hasbeen a change in preferred surfaces. Every newstadium built in the last couple years has been grass. Since there has been action taken towards thisproblem, we can only hope that in a few years allfootball fields, high school, college, andprofessional, are without artificial turf....
