grass vs. turf debate<\/a>, which has been fueled by multiple NFL owners bending over backwards to install grass temporarily for the World Cup. In it, Davis makes it clear that he has chosen grass because it\u2019s better for the men who wear silver and black.<\/p>\n\u201cI just always felt that football should be played on grass,\u201d Raiders owner Mark Davis told Perez. \u201cThat\u2019s for safety purposes, No. 1. I want it to look like a game was played even if it\u2019s an indoor field. You see grass stains and everything else. I wasn\u2019t going to a stadium without it being grass once I knew that capability was there. Obviously, it added a lot of cost, but it\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allegiant Stadium has a grass field that slides in and out over the fixed-roof facility.<\/p>\n
Davis could have gone with the fake stuff instead. He was willing to spend the money in order to take care of his players.<\/p>\n
He deserves credit for that, in the same way that the owners who cling to artificial turf because it\u2019s cheaper deserve scrutiny.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s safe to say that, when it\u2019s time for the next CBA to be negotiated, the league office will stick a clump of sod in his mouth on this specific topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Say what you will about Raiders owner Mark Davis (which usually means people say not-so-nice things about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-791943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}