The artificial turf installed across many NFL stadiums isn’t just synthetic blades of grass. A big part of FieldTurf’s composition is tiny pellets of crushed rubber that keep the ground soft above a layer of concrete.
Bills spread rubber pellets all over the place when they tried to clear snow off the field
Plows didn’t just remove snow from Buffalo’s field.
So when the Buffalo Bills went to plow their field at halftime Sunday, they didn’t just pile up snow — they also pulled all the rubber from the field, as well.
Plows pushed snow and piles of rubber into the end zones, where workers scrambled to remove them from the playing surface. Employees used snow blowers and shovels to discard the potentially hazardous material from the field.
The rubber pellets intertwined with the synthetic grass are often made from recycled car tires called crumb rubber. That material has come under fire recently for its potential link to lymphoma and other forms of cancer, particularly rampant among soccer players and other athletes who spent a significant amount of time on the turf. That’s bad news in Buffalo, where the possibly dangerous pellets are now piled up along the end lines.
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