Artificial Grass In Professional Sports
Anyone looking at professional sports today and seeing the artificial grass in all of the stadiums would think that articial grass has been around forever.
However, artificial grass first hit major sports arenas in the mid 1960’s – and mainly due to the fact that artificial grass cost was deemed to be cheaper than the constant care and maintenance of real grass fields. And then, sometime in the seventies, artificial grass become so commonplace that both indoor and outdoor stadiums were using them for football, baseball, and other sports.
The prime force driving the transition from real grass to artificial grass was cost – the continuing cost of maintaining and re-planing the ports fields. From an athlete’s point of view, however,one of the few negatives has been the increase of knee injuries, particularly among football players, whose
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