On Monday, multiple reports indicated that the San Francisco 49ers were not pleased with the conditions of the practice field they were given ahead of their Super Bowl LVIII matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs with the team complaining that it was too soft for their liking. But NFL commissioner Roger Goodell does not seem to be entertaining those complaints.
During his commissioner’s press conference on Monday evening, Roger Goodell pretty firmly shut down the complaints from the San Francisco 49ers, saying that experts have “unanimously” concluded that the practice field is “a very playable surface.”
“That work is being done every single day,” Goodell said of the preparation and testing of the practice field, according to Pro Football Talk. “We’ve had 23 experts out there. We’ve had the union out there. All of them think that’s a very playable surface. It’s softer than what they have practiced on, but that happens. It’s well within all of our testing standards. It is something that we think — all our experts, as well as neutral field inspectors — have all said, unanimously, that it’s a playable field.”
The Niners’ complaint did not seem to be regarding the safety of the field, but rather their personal preference about the firmness. However, it’s become clear that they are just going to have to move forward with the field the way that it is this week.
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