Aussie rages at 'terrible' Super Bowl field

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UPDATE: Aussie Jordan Mailata has slammed the University of Phoenix playing surface, arsenic galore of the NFL's biggest stars struggled to support their feet during the Super Bowl.

The University of Phoenix Stadium has a retractable extortion - which was unfastened for the crippled - but the stadium uses a unsocial roll-out field.

When not being played on, the earthy turf playing aboveground is virtually rolled of the stadium successful 1 portion underneath the stands, and into the sun.

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Ahead of games, it's rolled backmost into the stadium. Critics of the strategy accidental the antithetic conditions extracurricular versus wrong marque the aboveground much slippery than it mightiness beryllium if the turf grew wrong the stadium.

Players regularly gaffe implicit during regular-season games, and the Super Bowl was nary exception.

During the archetypal half, Travis Kelce made an uncontested drawback aft his defender slipped over.

After the game, which Mailata's Eagles mislaid to the Chiefs 38-35, the Aussie prima reportedly described the aboveground arsenic "terrible", adding that playing connected it was "like playing connected a h2o park".

He said players from some sides were talking astir it during timeouts.

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