George Kittle says World Cup fields show NFL could play all games on grass if owners cared

FIFA mandates that World Cup games be played on grass, and so the NFL stadiums that play football on artificial turf but wanted to host the World Cup gladly complied, putting temporary grass fields down. NFL players are noticing.

49ers tight end George Kittle said the grass fields for soccer show that if the league cared about the players’ preference, they could play every NFL game on grass, too.

“If you can put grass in MetLife and in SoFi, I think you could do that year-round if you really gave a s–t,” Kittle said on Pardon My Take, via 49ersWebZone. “I mean, that’s my opinion. I think, if you polled every single player, I would say probably 90 percent would [say] they would prefer a grass field. And I’d say 10 percent would say they don’t care. But 90 percent of guys, they prefer to play on grass. And so, it’s just like, well, you just show that you can do it, so then, why don’t we do it? Because that’s what the players want to do.”

Kittle said playing every NFL game on grass would be a relatively inexpensive change.

“So, why not just spend a couple extra million dollars, which we know they all have, to just grass all the fields?” Kittle said. “It doesn’t seem that difficult.”