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The Issue with Turf: Injuries, and the Women’s Game

On this week’s The Mane Land PawedCast, Michael Citro and I agreed that turf is bad, and grass is good. I know that is a really hot take, but we stand by it. We started talking about it in relation to Nani not making the trip to Atlanta. Mercedes-Benz Stadium has an artificial turf football field. The club has stated that the reason Nani did not travel is due to a calf injury. As I write this, Nani tweeted out the following:

It seems that his calf injury is bad enough to keep him home from the Seattle trip as well.