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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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Andy Nesbitt

NFL Should Be Embarrassed by Awful Super Bowl Field

The Chiefs beat the Eagles, 38–35, Sunday night in Super Bowl LVII in what was a thrilling game that was slightly marred by a controversial call in the final seconds and completely marred by horrible field conditions from basically the opening kickoff that should have the NFL feeling embarrassed Monday morning.

The league’s biggest game of the season was played on such a slippery and awful surface that we saw players losing their footing and falling all over the place.

Just look at what happened to Eagles kicker Jake Elliott on a kickoff. This shouldn’t happen in any NFL game, let alone the gosh-darn Super Bowl: 

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