If you Google “FedEx Field turf,” you’ll notice a variety of articles, mostly written in 2013, complaining about its quality, which should come as no surprise after the knee injuries Robert Griffin III suffered on it during his spectacular rookie campaign with the Redskins.
There are even a few pieces that called for the Redskins to replace FedEx Field’s natural grass with artificial turf.
Now, more than three years removed from that incident, I wanted to revisit the reputation of FedEx Field’s playing surface before the Bills head their for Friday’s preseason outing against the Redskins.
Yesterday, Mike Jones of The Washington Post, answered a turf-related question in his Redskins’ mailbag column:
In watching the game from home on Friday night, FedEx field looked in mid-December form — that is lumpy, bumpy and clumpy.