{"id":876267,"date":"2026-08-29T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876267\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:44:16","slug":"bills-re-sod-new-highmark-stadium-grass-after-nfl-player-calls-field-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876267\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills Re-Sod New Highmark Stadium Grass After NFL Player Calls Field ‘Ass’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills are re-sodding the grass field at the new Highmark Stadium before Week 1 of the 2026 season, according to Lance Lysowski<\/a> of the Buffalo News.<\/p>\n

The update comes after the original field conditions drew criticism, with one anonymous Bills player previously telling Tim Graham<\/a> of The Athletic that “the field is ass right now.”<\/p>\n

Buffalo is using the new $2.2 billion stadium for the first time during its 2026 campaign after three years of construction.<\/p>\n

The field contains Kentucky bluegrass grown at Tuckahoe Turf Farms in New Jersey (h\/t Graham). Tuckahoe Turf Farms has also handled other NFL stadiums, including the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Acrisure Stadium and the Philadelphia Eagles’ Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n

While an official needed to stop the play clock to replace a divot on the field during the Bills’ preseason opener, team president Pete Guelli didn’t seem to have long-term concerns regarding the grass after the game.<\/p>\n

“From a playability and safety perspective, everybody’s very happy,” Guelli said, per the Associated Press’\u00a0John Wawrow<\/a>. “It’s Year 1. So it’s a brand new field and it’s going to take time for the foundation to build up. So some of the things people saw in the game, those will dissipate over time.”<\/p>\n

The Bills used artificial turf at their old Highmark Stadium, but switched to natural grass for their new home. It’s worth noting that the NFL Players Association\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0on June 10 that 92 percent of NFL players prefer playing on natural grass over turf.<\/p>\n

While the Bills will be on the road for a Week 1 matchup with the Houston Texans, their next three games of the 2026 season are set to take place at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills are re-sodding the grass field at the new Highmark Stadium before Week 1 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-876267","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\/876267","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=876267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}