An Ode to Artificial Turf

[@roshango125ab]

A rubber matt on a concrete floor. What could go wrong?

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

NOT THE NEW STUFF. IT'S THE BEST NOW

[@MScotty90]

Every tendon, ligament, and muscle between your hips and feet, that's what.

[@Thejuice1998]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 it’s great but nothing better then natural grass

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

@@Thejuice1998 except when you have to mow it😧😧

[@super8bitvideos]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 turn your caps lock off old man

[@grid-natics2983]

Last remaining NFL player to play on astro turf in that is still active today Tom Brady

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

WE PUT IT UP AROUND OUR POOL. IT'S GREAT STUFF.

[@jab69420]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 it ain’t good for football that’s forsure

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

@@jab69420 Because we now have Wimps playing!

[@jab69420]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 no it’s not that. Even back in the 80’s and 90’s nfl players hated getting tackled on it. It’s good for a purpose like yours around a pool it isn’t good for football. Ya see getting tackled on astroturf is like getting hit on concrete since the turf was very thin.

[@Cum007]

@@captainamericaamerica8090 You must be fun at parties..

[@cpowers94]

"If cows can't eat it, I don't wanna play on it." 🤣

[@thesentinel5523]

Players today are lucky that astroturf has improved to the point where it mimics grass. Because back in the day they basically had a very thin rubbery surface that would be as hard as concrete during the ice cold winters. Imagine being a QB in the 70s, 80s, and 90s getting slammed into the ground by any NFC East player. That stuff shortened careers.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

IT'S AMAZING STUFF TODAY! PUT IT UP! AROUND POOLS TOO! TOUGH AND VERY LOW CARE

[@k.g._szymczak]

Yeah, cuz nobody else had any D line. lmao

[@claytonkobs8394]

Astroturf specifically refers to the carpet over concrete concept. But yeah, the artificial turf we see now with the rubber pellets is way safer. Still not as good as grass in my opinion.

[@CrashCarson14]

@@claytonkobs8394 yeah a good grass field is Better than turf. Though many field for high schools aren’t in the best shape.

[@minnow9590]

LT shows up an gives you a career ending injury

[@NinhLyUK]

Gotta love the rhyming limerick script 👍

[@0ffspringfan]

That's a regular poem, not a limerick.

[@chewbaccadefence7115]

@@0ffspringfan wow, you are one serious buzzkill.

[@thekid2072]

You haven’t post in 7 months will you come back

[@rmm3803]

Can't stand it. Never have, for some reason.

[@abigailarhin5925]

WHAT NINH LY IS HERE

[@Setsotama]

There's going to be a lot of angry ACLs who will hate this video

[@jab69420]

Odell Beckham jr is calling

[@NeonSprawl]

An Ode to this NFL Film: While you may want to say that the player's were tough, The honest truth is that they hated this stuff. For concrete and rubber were bound to offend, And we can see now that it created a trend. It helped concussions became a common mainstay, A fact that this league still doesn't acknowledge today.

[@youtubeistryingtocensorme]

Do u have any idea how long it took the league to even acknowledge concussions? Any changes that need to be made in the league need to be done by force. Because the league couldn’t care less about those players

[@carlosalvidrez9268]

Classical NFL Music!

[@jerrythepIatypus]

can we please get title-making guy a raise

[@RealToxMas]

@Keith Cousins can you not man.. it's just annoying and such a burden

[@RealToxMas]

@Keith Cousins huh

[@theprimaryread8081]

This is the most generic and uninteresting title I think I’ve ever seen

[@TheIanverse]

I’m your 200th like

[@VNeto94]

This was both bizarre and beautiful.

[@AstroTurfUSA]

Imagine how we feel

[@REXX-STRONGSTYLE]

And most of all it was true!! 😂

[@saurondp]

Way back in high school, I played a baseball game on old-school Astroturf. It was the worst baseball experience of my life, as it was essentially playing on concrete with a thin carpet over it. Ground balls never slowed down, and by the 5th inning my ankles were crying. I can't even imagine trying to dive on it, let alone get tackled on it by 300+ lbs. linemen. The newer FieldTurf is far better, but nothing beats playing any sport on natural grass.

[@randallfloyd4476]

i would have gladly taken astro turf over our lumpy shitty bad hop of a high school infield.

[@vigilantgopher9563]

@@randallfloyd4476 It wasn’t the field

[@RealToxMas]

The type of turf back then in the football fields were so hard and whenever you would go down on the turf it would be painful to players

[@REXX-STRONGSTYLE]

2:32 😂😂😂 I remember that game... Brian Billick was not having any of it 😂😂😂

[@kaseyludlow9914]

This video is a masterpiece

[@nxsmotorsports]

This was beautiful. I'm so ready for football and the stadiums filled with fans. I have a good feeling this season will be unforgettable. Get hyped!

[@yebobbummann1622]

I think anyone who had to endure the pain of playing a full season of football on Astroturf should be in the Hall of Fame.

[@mynameinreallife9018]

I feel like this is what would happen if dr.Seuss made a football book

[@VNeto94]

I need this in my life and for my children.

[@bubbahyde322]

He got cancelled. But we don't remember why. He surely wouldn't be working for the NFL

[@shivaneepatell]

A spinning Bradshaw!

[@AstroTurfUSA]

We still have that turf!

[@AlexCentury]

I’m not old enough to have played on the old style Astroturf but I’ve watched a lot of old football. I’m glad I got to see this close-up of it because I always wondered what it was like to play on. From the viewer’s vantage point it looks like linoleum.

[@MaxPower-vf8kt]

It looks like someone glued crappy carpet to concrete. I can’t imagine what it was like to play on.

[@ryanc.51]

Played on the og turf once, oh it was bouncy and felt fun and fast, but the skin on my elbows it did not last.

[@tammiea8552]

Whoever wrote this is a genius. Hahahaha

[@heisenbergII]

It’s a good thing turf fields have improved a lot since this video

[@1955DodgersBrooklyn]

2000s nfl network was a different animal

[@CrashCarson14]

From playing soccer in high school there’s completely different qualities and types of turf. Some older fields it was hard as a rock and looked cheap. Some and most were basic with the rubber pellets, and you could tell if there was a lot or almost none. Then there’s some recent field that look almost like a good grass field, even looks like little fibers of grass, not just green square cut plastic carpet. Either way it can get hot as hell. And can really burn if you slide on it.

[@Stevie8654]

I loved artifical turf in marching band. Everything that made the old stuff suck for football made it great for us nerds.

[@boilerdawg]

I disagree. I would always take a grass field over even the best synthetic field. The only benefit to me in marching on a synthetic field was not having to worry about if it was level or not. The best field I ever marched on was my age out year of drum corps when we had a show at Columbus Crew Stadium. Since it was made for soccer it was perfectly level and really short.

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

This one time at band camp ……

[@AstroTurfUSA]

We actually made TBDBITL's practice field. Check it out on our channel

[@shrimpflea]

You obvioulsy never marched at the old Veterans Stadium in Philly. You would have kept tripping over the seams.

[@toku30]

Yeah I'll shed a tear, cuz that ish hurts!

[@chortlesinthecorner]

My college had this for our intramural fields until 2009/2010. Even for flag football it was awful, especially if you went and played in the snow/rain. So many slips and burns. They put in the new field turf and that stuff is amazing! It's got some cushion to it and the blades of "grass" are actually long enough to bend so it rolls with you vs rubbing you raw. Amazing stuff.

[@Riley_Mundt]

I was one of the last players at my high school to play on grass, and many a time I was knocked on my ass. They switched to turf shortly after I quit. I never touched it, not even one bit. I often wondered what might have been. Then soon I'd remember, I valued my shin. So turf may be foreign to me. Though I play no longer, and so it shall be.

[@cowmanewer]

I played on worn out turf and its like sliding on rubber little pellets and plastic strands of grass and you could feel your cleat spikes in your toes and heels and everytime you fall and slide its a definite bleeding scab and burning showers and the pebbles when getting tackled would always go into your boxers and cleats, playing on grass was dirty but better

[@Thrashman-ye4cf]

So funny to look back on this. Players were basically playing on putting green on top of concrete lol Also taking a moment to appreciate how amazing NFL Films has always been. One of the reasons the NFL has been so marketable over the decades.

[@dandoe1620]

I grew up in downtown Pittsburgh. From 4th to 8th grade we played on Turf. It was awesome. Made running on grass feel like running on sand.

[@aspiceronni4462]

An Astros player was asked back in the day what he thought of the fake grass and he said "I dont know I haven't tried smoking it yet."

[@QueensWino]

Awesome ode! Thanks to whoever penned it!

[@dylanrunner2001]

I always wondered why you see nfl games from the 90’s and the field just looks like a green floor

[@willpgarrett2940]

Boy would it have been nice to play on todays field turf, artificial grass. I suffered thru 90s college,minor, and MLB concrete turf.

[@3089280288]

Loved the look of the field and those shoes did it for me. I have one last pair of Under Armour turf shoes

[@dexzennon9263]

This is still relevant today, field turf 2 : dobbins and shepherd negative ACLs.

[@fonnyjootball512]

"if cows cant eat it, i dont wanna play on it" -paul krause

[@Jackson-mi3dr]

bro is spitting

[@kennylc2193]

Chuck Knoll sounding like an NFL attorney talking about “the only injuries are scrapes and burns” 😆😆😆

[@bcubed72]

Before we get all self-gratifying about grass turf, remember the Mudbowl between PIT and MIA. 3-0 overtime win for the Steelers; at one point, a punt planted itself, nose down into the muck, and just stuck there. The only time I didn't root for the Steelers: about halfway through overtime, I started rooting for the mud. Wanted my 0-0 tie. [Sigh]...

[@Battlehawk62]

It should have been called “An ode to glorified carpeting”

[@Murphyj102]

It should always be grass for outdoor stadiums!!! The Patriots playing on field turf is so wrong

[@TexasNationalist1836]

2:54 this sounds like Ronald Reagan

[@yeahitstesh8937]

Someone needs to send proper turf maintenance to the jets

[@HitchedBug]

I March for the university of Tennessee. The bands practice field is turf and I hate it. It’s such an unnatural feeling when it gets hot and you can feel the heat radiating from the ground up.

[@deathmachineusa2689]

Knee destroyer.

[@FrederickFIintstone]

"Do they smoke grass out there in space Bowie, or do they smoke astroturf?"

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

3Com Park used to have artificial turf (Astroturf to be exact) when the baseball Giants played there in the 70s. Due to players getting hurt (if I'm not mistaken), they got rid of it and replace it with Bluegrass.

[@jbratt]

A friend from college played in the high school playoffs in the astrodome. Like the guy in this video said, the paint is hard. He told me the painted Oiler helmet logo in the center of the field was really hard.

[@aboriginalbrotha9947]

Astrodome turf was as bad as the Vet turf. When you think about old turf, you think about either the Vet, the Astrodome, or Montreal's Olympic Stadium in baseball.

[@rg7532]

I can’t believe they used to play on that.

[@Troy428492]

Me and my high school football teammates never play in artificial turf. Best high school team play in artificial turf is at the state championship before the turf has changed.

[@3089280288]

I wished I had. At least once

[@thebourg]

amazed that this astro turf stuck around as long as it did

[@haviervolasco5699]

Bro spittin

[@SmartTurf]

I like watching these NFL videos!

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

I've played on fields where every step ripped divots in the ground, I've played on pure mud, but I'd take either one over AstroTurf. Modern artificial grass is the way to go assuming you don't mind shredded rubber in every orifice of your body.

[@MWSNsports]

AstroTurf makes that though..

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

@@MWSNsports I was talking about their original product, not AstroTurf's current synthetic grass.

[@209stockton6]

The narrator had me thinking that he was gonna mention the Grinch at some point

[@echowhiskeyalphanovember3044]

I now need to listen to this before the start of each season

[@ddetorrice3]

Hits at 0:21 and 0:23 are so illegal nowadays lmao

[@wizwit6008]

Amazing documentary on turf

[@brendenknowles3428]

Gotta love football

[@rileybragin8552]

what the hell is ronald reagan doing here

[@farawayoutpost8342]

I was thankful my school had artificial turf instead of natural grass. I was allergic and would get an itchy rash on grass, also the uneven ground/mud made traction more difficult, so I was more likely to trip/slip. Also gopher holes turned the game into a minefield for injuries. On turf you could run faster and cut quicker.

[@Inferno41498]

I feel like someone is reading me a Dr Seuss book.

[@kevmonster7238]

Players used to play in basketball sneakers instead of cleats on these fields.

[@ThatDudeLuc]

Wait fr?

[@ryanmartin73]

@@ThatDudeLuc Yeah. I saw a bengals player rocking a pair of Iverson's back when riverfront had turf.

[@ThatDudeLuc]

Man, the first sign for me not to even play that day.

[@chipskylark172]

Man…I just love how they thought it was safe to play on concrete lol and they say we millennials are dumb 😂😂

[@georgeterrill7279]

I have a family friend who tore his ACL on that Astrodome turf in the 80s which ended his career. He still hates that stuff with passion.

[@aboriginalbrotha9947]

The Astrodome was the worst in the 80's. When the Vet had a bad reputation in the early 90s, the Astrodome was as bad as the Vet. Those two stadiums were on the top 3 along with Riverfront Stadium which was awful.

[@blue06lt]

I had the opportunity to walk on the field at Veterans Stadium in 1997 before they replaced the original AstroTurf with the newer FieldTurf. It felt like walking in a parking lot with carpeting on it. Football had to be hard to play on it, but I feel that baseball had to be much worse. Diving full extension for a fly ball across the outfield had to be really painful, especially considering that baseball players don't wear pads.

[@3243_]

Especially on an afternoon in the middle of July and August.

[@josephfootball8446]

Boy...but you could fly on that stuff.

[@notsagegav8956]

Dude sounds like Ronald Regan

[@vultorgetstoscore6976]

my man goin DR. suess as the narrator

[@lizlaureys8163]

Cilantro pour vous étiquette, mes confreres💖

[@plzing2]

This deserves more views

[@2bigbufords]

The Brady Bunch had it there back yard. So its good enough for me.

[@ericsigersmith2831]

I just think of the vet in Philly when I think of ASTRO turf

[@kel_bandz8462]

That stadium was as hardcore as it got, my grand father worked HVAC on it and talked to a couple of structural engineers that said that stadium was ready to collapse at any moment years before they tore it down

[@thebrotasticbro9465]

I just fairly recently developed a respect for the evolution of turf, dope video

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

THE STUFF IS AMAZING NOW

[@User-yd7jw]

Cat in the hat X NFL collab !?🔥

[@otrfitness4878]

It feels like Christmas :)

[@AnthonySmith-te2be]

I remember a bears wide out( I can’t think of his name )blew out both his knees on the turf in Philadelphia that 70’s-80’s turf was brutal.

[@targettoad691]

Wendell Davis, 1993

[@anthonysmith1882]

@@targettoad691 thanks I’m glad someone remembers, though old age was playing tricks on me

[@Shatamx]

3:36 take me back please. What a dump.

[@whac1c]

My man was spitting bars jfc

[@jackie165]

I had artificial turf in high school and after every practice we would have to pick off the rubber that had melted onto our cleats

[@ncpgaming8000]

The current day turf is definitely a lot better than astro turf. But grass is still so much better to play on than turf

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

There is no substitute for real grass.

[@tylito4764]

Not a choice but a law. Dope

[@davidcorrea7888]

this man got bars

[@KQwest98]

When asked how he liked astro turf, Tug McGraw replied, “I never smoked astro turf”

[@CHENOTV]

turf today is much better on the body than grass

[@steadydropnem]

0:54 OMG he said Tacoma LOL. that's where i live. LOL #253 TACOMA

[@HipsterDoofus100]

No one cares

[@gabrielvalencia1824]

This was nice💀

[@lucaskincanyon7393]

This was so cool. Amazing video.

[@esava44]

Real grass is where football is to be played.

[@michaelhouston3450]

Very nice poem

[@JamesThomas-pj2lx]

Thought it said "Ode to Turf Toe"........ There I fixed your title.

[@markgraham2312]

But the kickers loved it!

[@OGB_-ni8eh]

I'm just repeatedly saying BARS

[@jeremy28135]

👏 BRAVO!!

[@Rickytikkitavi]

Sounds like Dr. Suess wrote this script

[@eagebeazthawk290]

Sounds like a story book

[@ryangolding5160]

The state of artificial pitches with all the money in the world.

[@jeksixten5751]

He rhymes like Muhammad Ali 😹😂