{"id":900217,"date":"2026-09-21T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900217\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:24:14","slug":"i-needed-an-iv-shoes-melt-as-turf-temperature-reaches-157f-in-eagles-titans-game-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900217\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I needed an IV\u2019: shoes melt as turf temperature reaches 157F in Eagles-Titans game | NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tennessee Titans were happy to get off the field on Sunday, and not just because they lost their second game in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amid sweltering conditions in Nashville, the temperature on the artificial turf at Nissan Stadium reached 157F (69.4C), according to the Fox broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hot as shit, everybody was as hot as shit,\u201d Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> head coach Nick Sirianni said after his team\u2019s 24-20 win. \u201cI didn\u2019t play a snap and I had to get an IV. I \u2026 appreciate how much the players fought through because it wasn\u2019t easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nashville was under a heat warning for Sunday\u2019s game, which kicked off at noon local time. The air temperature was 95F (35C) with a heat index of 105F (40.5C). However, inside the bowl of the stadium the surface of the artificial turf was much hotter.<\/p>\n

Eagles offensive lineman Jordan Mailata said the temperatures were another reason for the players\u2019 union to push for a ban on artificial turf.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it\u2019s turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,\u201d Mailata said. \u201c[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\u2019re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fox broadcast showed water being poured on players\u2019 shoes to keep them cool, and Mailata\u2019s teammate Cam Jurgens said he had to replace his cleats several times because they melted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf-time was like a Nascar pit crew helping me get ready for the second half,\u201d Jurgens said. \u201cThat turf was just radiating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Conditions were also tough last week in Tennessee\u2019s season opener against the New York Jets. In that game, Titans safety Amani Hooker said the midsole on one of his shoes \u201cmelted completely off\u201d.<\/p>\n

ESPN reported<\/a> that some players and staff had questioned why the league scheduled an afternoon kickoff in September in a city known for its hot and humid conditions. There has been attention in recent years on college players who have died<\/a> while training in high temperatures, and former Eagles safety Reed Blankenship had to leave a game in 2024 with a heat-related illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Titans were happy to get off the field on Sunday, and not just because they lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-900217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}