As the Giants and Packers prepare to play at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, there’s a concern about the playing surface.

As one source explained it to PFT, there’s an issue with seams in the artificial turf playing field. There are “deep dips” in the some portions of the seams connecting strips of fake grass. Last week’s injury to Vikings safety Lewis Cine on that same field occurred in the vicinity of one of the seams.

It’s a “BAD surface,” the source said.

Not bad enough to fail inspection, however. The NFL Players Association acknowledges that there is “a seam along the numbers that was the concern,” but that the field has officially “passed” the joint NFL-NFLPA pre-game review.

The NFL did not immediately respond to a text message seeking comment.

It’s unclear what would have happened if the playing surface had failed. Step one, presumably, would have been to try to fix it. Step two would have been, if it couldn’t be fixed, to not play the game.

Good luck with that one. At a time when the league’s international obsession has the Commissioner openly talking about a four-team division in Europe, abruptly pulling the plug on Green Bay’s first-ever game in England would have taken all air out of the 99 Luftballoons.

Beyond the havoc a canceled or delayed regular-season game in London could wreak on the schedule, the notion of sending a full stadium of English fans home because the much-hyped, state-of-the-art, two-sport venue has an unacceptable playing surface would set back by years the effort to grow the game beyond the borders of the United States.

Today’s game will be the last one this year at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. In three weeks, the Broncos and Jaguars play at Wembley, and the final European game of 2022 will be played in Germany. It will be interesting to see whether the playing surface at Tottenham Hotspur is any better come 2023.

As if the game would be canceled if it didn’t pass.

It’s almost like both the Giants and or Packers have much better playing fields available to them here in the states they can play on, then they wouldn’t have to travel half way across the world for nothing. The fact the league makes teams fly all the way to freaking England n Europe on top of playing TNF just shows how utterly greedy the league is, as if they don’t have enough NFL Fans state side. Last time I checked football is the most popular most watched professional sport in the states.

Lambeau Field has the best natural grass football field in the NFL.

Didn’t even affect the game. Shocking.

Money Money Money by the Pound !

The first time that player safety takes priority over the NFL making more money, will be the first time.

jclark6528 says: October 9, 2022 at 2:48 pm

The first time that player safety takes priority over the NFL making more money, will be the first time. ————–

The players get 50% of the money the NFL brings in, so all they have to do is demand a pay cut and things will change.

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