Yet Another Reason To Stop Using Fake Grass

There’s no bigger scourge to American sports than the invention of fake grass. You’d think thirty-five years of AstroTurf would’ve made us weary, but we still use the fake shit today. Baseball has almost completely switched back to the real stuff, rough-ass rugby plays on real grass, and soccer wants nothing to do with it (except for the women’s matches, and they’re suing because of it; Google Sydney Leroux’s legs for details). But football wants the fake stuff, which typically costs somewhere around $750k according to FieldTurf’s website. So we’re not going to feel sorry for this Maryland high school, whose grounds keeping crew thought the fake grass needed a trim. If you had just appreciated the wonderful green stuff God already put on this Earth, you wouldn’t be having to shell out another six figures for a football field.

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The landscaping crew at my buddies' HS mistakenly mowed the field turf ? #HSFootball #tragic pic.twitter.com/3cB4RUcXYe

— Tom Fink (@finkdontstink) September 3, 2014

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