What do you believe is safer for athletes artificial turf or normal grown turf? Well let's get down to the grind of it i'm just gonna throw some numbers out there for you too see how much this stuff cost and how much the maintenance is. $13,720-$39,220 that right there is the price rang for one artificial turf field now let's look how much it costs to maintenance it $8,133-$48,960 okay that's where the money's got to end right… Nope every 8-10 years the turf has to be replaced and the rubber pelts have to be specially dumped and that's more money now that we're done with the artificial turf. Let's begin on natural grass the only costs that are in your way are water bill and the mower but that's about all.
What are the pros of artificial turf? Well there a few pros to artificial turf it does have a ton more traction but that is also a con but we'll get to that later. Turf also does not have short term maintenance and gives good traction in any weather. What are the pros of grass? The pros of grass is has a lot more give to its when players plant or hit the ground and some athletes will say it gives you better …show more content…
A study at the University of Arkansas shows that artificial turf is almost doubled of what the air temperature is they took a reading of 94 degrees for the air temp and a 165 degree turf temp. The cons of grass are you don't get great traction all the time with grass depending on the weather because if it's raining and it's all muddy it's gonna be hard to get traction or if it's a really dry day and the ground is just solid. There is also now sings of players getting staph infections at least 276 football players were reported to be infected with an antibiotic-resistant staph