“I’ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it’s [synthetic] turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,” Mailata said. “[The union] have got to bring it up. This is why we want all grass fields, to create a standard of play in the league where we’re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don’t have to.”
I was going to suggest a ludicrous work-around, like air-conditioned football fields, but apparently we already have those…
Cowboys game was 99F outside, 78 inside stadium. How much energy it takes to cool down a stadium that size…