We are a little over 72 hours away from Super Bowl LVIII and the stage is set at Allegiant Stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers to square off for the Lombardi Trophy.
The National Football League’s official social media account shared a video of the grass field being rolled into the stadium.
According to Pro Football Talk, the league is going to extreme lengths to make sure the field conditions are a lot better than what they were a year ago when the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs faced off at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
NFL Executive Vice President Peter O’Reilly, via ProFootballTalk
“We have brought in, as we do each year, a brand new natural grass surface that is currently installed in the field tray outside Allegiant Stadium,” he said. “That has been in for a little bit now and is working through all of our standard testing procedures that’ll take place over the time from installation all the way up through the day before, that Saturday right before the game. Those adjustments and a core maintenance program are in place so we’ll have an optimal field on game day. That natural grass surface, brand new, is installed right now, and a great team maintaining it as we head up to the Super Bowl.”
Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas has a similar tray system to what State Farm Stadium has as the field is treated and prepared outside the stadium and slid into the venue on a massive tray.
One key difference between the Arizona and Las Vegas systems is the Allegiant Stadium tray is equipped with heating coils. The coils in the tray fool the grass into thinking it is still warm so it will keep growing.
The league also stated that its field maintenance specialists had been monitoring the field for weeks in advance of the game.
Super Bowl 58 will kickoff on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
