I read about this in the FABULOUS book America's Game. Lots of great nuggets in that book. Like how Monsanto created Astroturf and how there was a conspiracy to get the whole league playing on it. The chemicals in the Astroturf wouldn't allow proper healing when players got, essentially rug burn. They would wake in the middle of the night with their sheets stuck to open wounds on their skin. They would have to take the sheets into the shower attached to their skin just to get them off.


Great read. I highly endorse that book. A little history shows just how far the game has come.

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