Or did during TV timeouts everyone switch to another Lambeau field? Theres a simple solution to this issue…..longer cleats. The equipment guys have them on the bench. All it takes is the guys going out for pregame warmups and doing their drills and letting the equipment guys know they need longer cleats.

Both teams play on the same field. Some teams prefer grass, others prefer turf. I can remember at one point there was talk of installing grass at Texas Stadium to prolong Emmitt’s career because of concern over him blowing out a knee on the turf. Some of that concern was mitigated with the advent of the new “field turf” as opposed to the old astroturf because it was too “sticky”. But the point still stands, both teams play on the same field. You mention Candlestick always seeming to be a mess, and it often was. But alot of that has to do with the weather conditions of the region. Nothern Cali gets lots of rain and Candlestick in particular had drainage problems. You cant control that type of thing without domes, and most markets cant afford to build billion dollar stadiums. On top of that, teams up north like their frigid temp advantage during the cold months. The same can be said about southern teams having an advantage during the beginning of the season when it’s 100+ degrees in places like Dallas and Arizona. It’s all part of the nuances of the game. I personally dont want to see homogenized/carbon copy stadiums. Take baseball for example. Baseball fields come in all shapes and sizes, its part of the game, part of the strategy. AL stadiums are hitter friendly, NL stadiums are pitching friendly. Can bad field conditions pose hazards to players health? Absolutely, but they pose the same risk for both teams. I dont think ANY team wants their field in complete shambles like that. If anything it increases the risk to their own players since they have to play on it on a regualr basis. And I dont see how regulating the field conditions is even possible. How is Goodell going to regulate weather conditions? He can’t. Could he mandate that no other games are allowed to be played on field? He could try I guess. But then where do the teams that play on these multigame fields play instead? Most stadiums are municipally owned, not team owned. And the stadiums have to generate income in order to be able to afford to build them and for upkeep. And again, most teams cannot afford to build their own stadium, which is WHY you have multi-use stadiums. It cant be helped. There’s no way around it.
I kinda see your point, but the reality is it’s a mute point.

Hey, my aim is not to regulate weather but to unify the fields.
By example, have you ever played tennis? Have you played on grass courts, concrete and clay? Each is different and if you are use to (jumping back to football) blocking with solid footing and suddenly you go play a team with loose turf who has the advantage? The team use to their loose turf and the angles it takes to get firmer/sure footing (small fakes cause people to go down on poor footing but not on good footing and their players weren’t slipping). Play on clay for a while then take on someone who plays on the fastest surface, concrete, and you will flat out kill them. The footing, the bounce and skip, the set up and approaches must all be varied because of the surface under foot.
So if we play on and get use to one surface and don’t see a loose grass field until we have a big game who is more prepared to play on that surface but the Home Team? So Yes we do play on the same field but it is not like we are ready for the field when it is vastly different. It’s still green and looks the same but it does not play the same and when it comes to something that is possibly hazardous Then the home field advantage is slanted ….and possibly as my blog attempts to say, un-fair.
So same field does not equal same play by both teams since one is use to the field while the other is not. Seems in the second half the slips kept coming so changing cleats did not solve the problem either….and again another point of contention, your sod is meant to hold and under the pounding and pushing of huge and heavy men locked on battle. If it can’t do that then it is inferior and possess a risk. -As for Regulating-When other things posse a risk teams and the NFL find ways of weeding them out or legislating them out (read a contract and the language for dangerous behaviors like motorcycle riding, etc.).
My whole point is, how would you like to loose that game because the other team was use to their field and we weren’t? What if that CB following TO picked off the pass as he was slipping to the ground and took it to the house…the game begins to be turned not by players but by the field (seems the same to me as when the Officials become the focus within a game, it is just not the nature of the game to have an outside force determine the outcome of a sport between two teams). And it does not seem fair that we are battling both the opposing team And their field (49ers game in 1994 was like playing on a wet, old mattress whose stuffing kept coming up and I for one believe it turned the tide in the game that we would have won had the field not aided the home team!).
So if you are one of the teams with notoriously poor conditions or heavy use….heaven knows the NFL makes even the smallest franchise enough money to change out to field turf so you don’t try to re-sod three or four times a season knowing that that sod has about a zero percent chance of doing its job because it neither has the time to grow its roots or the ability according to the weather. Fair should be fair so the teams determine the outcome and score of a game.