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That means 8 of the 10 Super Bowls played in dome stadiums on field turf or in retractable roof stadiums (with either field turf or natural grass) have been exciting, one-score contests. There have also been 3 Super Bowls played indoors on modern artificial turf at pure dome stadiums The Steelers/Seahawks Super Bowl XL game at Ford Field in Detroit, the Ravens/49ers Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans (which moved from Astroturf to FieldTurf in … Continue reading since the retirement of the green concrete known as AstroTurf, and two of those three went down to the wire, too. Every single game was decided by less than a touchdown other than last year’s 13-3 game, which was still competitive throughout. There have now been 7 Super Bowls played inside stadiums with a retractable roof: two at Reliant/NRG Stadium in Houston, two at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and one each at the new stadiums in Arlington, Indianapolis, and Atlanta. Four years later, in Super Bowl XLVI, the teams met again at a stadium with a retractable roof, this time on Field Turf in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. When the Patriots played the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, the game was played indoors on natural grass at University of Phoenix Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona. Astoturf fields had nylon turf fibers with no sand infill that led to field burns and very hard (and sometimes hot) surfaces the modern synthetic turfs we see usually have grass or artificial fibers, with sand and tiny rubber particles between them, which absorb shock and operate more like the best of natural grass fields. And so is the difference between the old Astroturf and FieldTurf and other modern artificial fields. The picture above shows Adam Vinatieri after the game-winning kick on Astroturf in the Louisiana Superdome the photo below shows him two years later in the middle of his game-winning kick on natural grass at NRG Stadium (then Reliant Stadium) in Houston: was on grass, but the 2003 season gave us the first Super Bowl played inside a stadium with a retractable roof and the first Super Bowl played indoors but not on astroturf. The following year’s Super Bowl Super Bowl XXXVII, between the Raiders and Bucs, was played in Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. That’s because Super Bowl XXXVI, again at the Louisiana Superdome, was the very last Super Bowl played on artificial turf: Last season, the Patriots and Rams battled in Super Bowl LIII, but for surface purposes, it was the first Patriots/Rams Super Bowl that is the noteworthy one. And, as you know, they were usually not very competitive. With one Super Bowl each at new domed stadiums with artificial turf in Detroit and Minneapolis. Super Bowl XII at the Louisiana Superdome was the first Super Bowl played indoors, and since that was the only option for that era, it was therefore played on the artificial turf known as Astroturf:įor much of the ’80s and ’90s, Super Bowls were played outdoors in California or Florida With the lone outdoors exception being Super Bowl XXX, between the Cowboys and Steelers, being played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona., or in the Louisiana Superdome or Georgia Dome on artificial turf. And after a return to Memorial Coliseum in southern California for Super Bowl VII, the Dolphins and Vikings met in the first Super Bowl played on nylon texturized AstroTurf in Super Bowl VIII at Rice Stadium in Houston:įour years later, we had our next big change in Super Bowl history: the indoor stadium. The same thing happened the next year, at Super Bowl VI, as Tulane Stadium followed suit and resurfaced its field with Poly-Turf.

For Super Bowl V, the Orange Bowl in Miami was again the host site, but by now, the natural grass surface had been replaced with Poly-Turf, making it the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf. The first four Super Bowls were all played on grass stadiums: the first Super Bowl was at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, the Orange Bowl in Miami hosted Super Bowls II and III, and Tulane Stadium in New Orleans was the venue for Super Bowl IV.īut the dreaded AstroTurf revolution came to football in the ’70s.