{"id":795725,"date":"2026-07-31T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:16:09","slug":"jordan-mailata-if-stadiums-are-grass-for-the-world-cup-that-should-be-bare-minimum-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795725\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Mailata: If stadiums are grass for the World Cup, that should be bare minimum for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Mailata has spent his NFL career playing for the Eagles, so he\u2019s accustomed to his home field playing surface being grass. <\/p>\n<p>But Mailata also just watched the World Cup get played in NFL stadiums across the nation and all of those games were also played on grass, including in places where the surface is normally turf. <\/p>\n<p>As a member of the NFC East, Mailata plays at MetLife Stadium and AT&amp;T Stadium every year \u2014 two of several sites that converted to grass for the World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>As Philadelphia\u2019s NFLPA rep, Mailata has added his voice to the many who are calling for all NFL games to be played on grass, particularly in light of what we all saw this summer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can make all-grass stadiums for the World Cup coming to America, we should be able to at least do [that] for us,\u201d Mailata said, via Zach Berman of TheAthletic.com. \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZBerm\/status\/2083175304156074486?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">That\u2019s bare minimum for us. It should be, but it\u2019s not<\/a>. I agree with the campaign pushing for all grass fields, get rid of the turf. It\u2019s kind of crazy, crazy how much power FIFA has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mailata is right that FIFA has plenty of power. But the vast majority of teams that utilize turf as a playing surface have not shown much inclination to change that surface over to grass on a full-time basis. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see how this discussion evolves, particularly as the league looks to expand the schedule to 18 regular-season games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Mailata has spent his NFL career playing for the Eagles, so he\u2019s accustomed to his home field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-795725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795725","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=795725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}