The facility in Glendale, Arizona, is one of the two NFL sites with the capability to grow its grass playing field outside and roll it inside ahead of games.
State Farm Stadium officials maintain the grass has the feel and playability of a traditional playing surface.
State Farm Stadium, formerly University of Phoenix Stadium, keeps their grass outside to grow before taking it in for each sporting event. State Farm Stadium uses a hybrid Bermuda grass and boasts that it was the first facility in North America to incorporate a retractable playing surface for the grass. It does so to take advantage of the maximum sunshine and nourishment in the usually warm desert sun. "It’s called Tahoma 31 Bermuda grass. We grow this on plastic.
Stormy weather makes it hard for crews to transfer the sod to State Farm Stadium for the Super Bowl. "It’s extremely difficult to harvest sod when it's wet, it becomes muddy," Danek said. "The last thing we want to do is streak the grass when we're sending it. You roll it up and 2,500 pounds, and it'll turn black when it's muddy."Sod gets rolled up so it can be transferred to State Farm Stadium for the Super Bowl.
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