Eagles and Chiefs players keep slipping because the Super Bowl field is a mess

The nearly $1 million grass is not cutting at the Super Bowl.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are playing each other in Super Bowl LVII. They're both battling the field, which is a disaster at State Farm Stadium.

Players have been slipping all game and about a half dozen Eagles players changed their cleats at halftime, the FOX broadcast said.

Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert said he was among those who changed his cleats.

“Both teams played on the same field," he said. "We saw them slipping around a little bit. Obviously the field conditions we got to make sure are right. A lot of us did change cleats and it seemed to work a little bit better. Definitely not the reason we lost the game or anything.

"You put in the seven studs (on your cleats), and they have a little bit more grip, they dig in a little bit more. Like I said, we both played on the same turf and it has nothing to do with the outcome."

The broadcast showed tens of grounds crew members working on patching divots in the field after Rihanna's halftime show. It also aired a shot of a pile of cleats on an equipment trunk on the Philadelphia sideline.

No Chiefs players reportedly changed their cleats at halftime.

State Farm Stadium has a retractable field made up of Tahoma 31 natural grass. The retractable feature is to allow for several different types of events at the venue and sits on 13 "railroad-like tracks." It takes about 70 minutes to roll out the field.

The league spent about a month prepping the playing surface for the Super Bowl and had groundskeepers working on it every day, one the NFL's field surface directors told The Associated Press last week.

The grass at State Farm Stadium is on a a giant, rolling track. The entire field is rolled outside of the stadium daily for unobstructed access to sunshine. The stadium’s website says the grass is on a “single 40-inch deep tray measuring 234 feet wide and 403 feet long. Rolling on 546 steel wheels which rest on 13 railroad-like tracks, the field travels the 740 feet inside or out of the stadium in approximately 70 minutes at the push of a button.”

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Eagles and Chiefs keep slipping because the Super Bowl field is a mess