{"id":705297,"date":"2026-06-15T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705297\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:58:16","slug":"49ers-kittle-fifa-world-cup-2026-sofi-grass-vs-levis-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705297\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers Kittle FIFA World Cup 2026: SoFi grass vs Levi\u2019s Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">George Kittle is at the World Cup, and he noticed something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Attending a match at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Kittle took to X to share his thoughts on the playing surface:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Your first guess might be that this is a jab at Levi\u2019s Stadium. The field has been re-sodded repeatedly over the years, players have complained about divots flying up mid-play, and Denver Broncos players called the surface \u201cterrible\u201d after Super Bowl 50. It got much better as time went on, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">SoFi has turf. And Kittle\u2019s recent post could be less on his home field and more on the teams that play on turf year-round. MetLife Stadium, which has claimed a number of 49ers players with its turf (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-news\/152296\/49ers-mykel-williams-brock-purdy-injury-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including Mykel Williams in 2025<\/a>), is one place where a grass surface could reduce the risk of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The broader NFL turf debate has gotten louder this offseason \u2014 players have been openly frustrated that several stadiums installed natural grass for the World Cup while insisting on artificial turf for football. If it doesn\u2019t make any sense, that\u2019s because it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Well, there\u2019s one thing that may make sense: how much it costs to put this grass in for 17+ games a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Do you think this was a jab at Levi\u2019s or Kittle calling for more grass on the turf-based fields in the NFL?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Kittle is at the World Cup, and he noticed something. Attending a match at SoFi Stadium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[257,349,99],"class_list":["post-705297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705297","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=705297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}