“I’ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it’s [synthetic] turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,” Mailata said. “[The union] have got to bring it up. This is why we want all grass fields, to create a standard of play in the league where we’re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don’t have to.”
I wonder if occasionally tossing water on the turf or having the fill material be white instead of black would lower the temperatures.
Imagine how disgustingly humid that’d be
Water it and you would get a Sauna
They’re called athletes and they already have some white ones