The game was scheduled to be played on Sunday August 7, between the Packers and the Colts.
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The game was ultimately canceled. This also reduces the Packers and Colts’ preseason dockets to four, which stands to limit the risk of injuries to players who will be part of the teams’ regular-season rosters but also prevented fringe players from a crucial audition for those teams or the 30 others.
Both teams were cleared off the field at 6:30 p.m. CDT, approximately 90 minutes before the scheduled start of the first National Football League preseason game of the season.
CINCINNATI (AP) – NFL fields have come a long way from the days of lumpy artificial surfaces, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement, the head of the players’ union said Tuesday. The delay threw off the timetable for preparing the field, which included the touch-up painting that left portions of field unsafe due to adhesion from the paint.
Team physicians also were consulted.
“We thought we would be able to remediate it by delaying the game for as much as an hour”, Baker added. It’s the only thing to do. “You can’t even imagine who could not plan that”. “If it happened with him on the field, I would have wanted someone to make the same decision”.
The NFL is facing vast criticism for outsourcing, through the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the field management for the game, which ultimately and shamefully for the image-battered league, were not up to NFL standards.
The Colts and Packers were supposed to kickoff the National Football League preseason but field conditions were called in to question hours before kickoff as issues with paint used on the field created a “concrete-like” surface in some areas.
“This is an important game for the people of Canton”, Baker said.
Somebody needs to be fired. “I think that’s something that’s probably got to be looked at going forward”. Now we don’t get to see that.
Colts owner Jim irsay met with the media after the decision to cancel the game was made and said, “It’s something that never should have occurred”.
Later in the memo, Vincent said that league will continue to study field surface safety. In 2011, the Hall of Fame Game wasn’t played due to the lockout. The substance they were trying to get the paint off with, I can promise you, was not health-conscious at all.
Charges will be automatically refunded to ticketholders who paid by credit card. “I think this happened in Philadelphia”.
The main issues that led to the game being called off concerned the painted logos at midfield and in the end zones.
This is a detail-oriented league that, for example, fines players for uniform violations.
Safety should, of course, come first. The field was brand new, and it had been approved when it was first installed. Not in canceling the game after failing to prepare the field safely.
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“I’m very disappointed in the National Football League”, said Kennedy. How would you have advised otherwise?
