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And most importantly, I learned that the game would be played on turf.  I have been a life long opponent of turf on the grounds that even the latest generation of it promotes injuries--more so for football than for other sports, as it turns out.  Frankly, I would not mind if every football player sat out every game played on turf, until they force the abandonment of this safety hazard.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25164575

Apparently the risks of crumb rubber fields include elevated incidence of cancer:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/...ac09ea7fdd

http://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentar...where-play

[82 Card]

And most importantly, I learned that the game would be played on turf.  I have been a life long opponent of turf on the grounds that even the latest generation of it promotes injuries--more so for football than for other sports, as it turns out.  Frankly, I would not mind if every football player sat out every game played on turf, until they force the abandonment of this safety hazard.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25164575

Apparently the risks of crumb rubber fields include elevated incidence of cancer:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/...ac09ea7fdd

http://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentar...where-play