{"id":269716,"date":"2025-11-03T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269716\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:03:08","slug":"george-kittle-wants-standardized-nfl-playing-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269716\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle wants standardized NFL playing surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

49ers tight end George Kittle got his first taste of football at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. After the game, he was asked by reporters for his assessment of the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy only issue is with is, like, when someone\u2019s field is, like, the butt of a joke throughout all of social media, constantly, like on every NFL meme page, everybody jokes about how bad it is, I feel like at that point, someone should just take a look at it, and let\u2019s not make it a \u2014 no NFL field should be the butt of a joke, ever<\/a>,\u201d Kittle said. <\/p>\n

That said, there were always be a worst field in the NFL, and that field will be the one that gets made fun of. Kittle would prefer that none of the field stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell like all the fields should have a level of safety to it,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cI just don\u2019t get, like, why there\u2019s not a standard for, \u2018Hey, you\u2019ve got to pick between one of two turfs.\u2019 There shouldn\u2019t be 12 different turfs and 12 different grass fields, and then a couple guys have the same things. I just think that\u2019s weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kittle pointed out that it\u2019s not that way in other sports, noting that basketball players play on the same hardwood, and that soccer players in Europe play on really nice grass fields.<\/p>\n

In the end, Kittle accepted that there\u2019s nothing he can do about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s way above my pay grade,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cI don\u2019t make the money to make those decisions. But I\u2019d love to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t we all, George. Wouldn\u2019t we all.<\/p>\n

Then, we could be the ones to pinch the pennies and chase the dollars \u2014 whether it\u2019s the quality of fields or using consumers as pawns in a carriage dispute between multi-billion-dollar TV providers.<\/p>\n

We all think we\u2019d do better if we were the stewards of wealth and power. Here\u2019s the real question: Is it possible to do worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers tight end George Kittle got his first taste of football at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. After the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-269716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}