Pittsburgh's Turf Monster

doubleyoi · Oct 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Da Stellars said: ↑

I’m not denying it looks beat up, but how is it really dangerous to players?

Natural grass still beats the concrete feel of 3-Rivers, and I’m sure also the fake grass some stadiums do nowadays.

It’s not like they were playing in hurricane flooding like that one game?
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The reason it is such an issue is Killebrew getting hurt and the field failing on Boswell. And Rodgers' comments fanned the fire: "By the time the third quarter rolled around, that thing was really beat up, so I feel bad about what happened to Miles."

Lizard72 · Oct 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM

doubleyoi said: ↑

The reason it is such an issue is Killebrew getting hurt and the field failing on Boswell. And Rodgers' comments fanned the fire: "By the time the third quarter rolled around, that thing was really beat up, so I feel bad about what happened to Miles."

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Killebrew injury, depending on what it was looks like he planted the foot and it just gave away, doesn't look like any slippage caused that.

Brice · Oct 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Lizard72 said: ↑

Killebrew injury, depending on what it was looks like he planted the foot and it just gave away, doesn't look like any slippage caused that.
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So, are you saying the Field is to blame for the Steelers losing Killebrew for the Season? I am still worried that Boz is going to popup on the injury report for his slip and fall on Sunday.

Ben on his Podcast said that Pitt should not be allowed to play at the stadium. I thought they also had High Schools playing at Acrisure Stadium as well as Pitt. It is like their training facility; I don't know of a single NFL team that has to share their Training Facility and a Stadium with a college team. This is just the Rooney's being cheap and not wanting to spend money like the rest of the owners in the NFL.

Ben Roethlisberger: Pitt shouldn't play at Acrisure Stadium - NBC Sports

Bubbahotep · Oct 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM

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Hell, the after game broadcast with Batch said they had already started on the replacement right after the game while they were on air still taking about the game.

So, they already knew it was needing replacement, it's just finding the right time to do it in the schedule. I guess they figured right after the game would give the field 2 weeks to settle in before back to back PITT and Steeler home games.

Also, to be fair, it looked like most of it was fine except the portion between the 40's and the hashes.
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Aha! Now we know why the Steelers avoid the middle of the field. Mystery solved!!

thorn058 · Oct 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM

Bubbahotep said: ↑

Aha! Now we know why the Steelers avoid the middle of the field. Mystery solved!!
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Joel Buchsbaum · Oct 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Formerscribe said: ↑

Something needs to be done about the playing surface at Heinz Field (Yeah, yeah...Acrisure Stadium...whatever).

it seems there have been issues with the field there from day one and the conditions Sunday were inexcusable. The field probably cost the Steelers Miles Killebrew for the season. It cost them a field goal Sunday. It could have cost them Boswell. That **** should not be happening in an NFL stadium. The stadium has been open since 2001. How have they not figured this out in all that time?

They can't even make the excuse of sharing the stadium. Pitt didn't even play at home Saturday. Aaron Rodgers expressed his displeasure after the game.

“The field,” veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers said, “got borderline unplayable.”
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I say the AstroTurf at Three Rivers was a little bit better than the poorly maintained field we play on in ideal weather today at Heinz Feild.

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