When it comes to historic stadiums in the National Football League, near the top of that list is the Chicago Bears’ home stadium, Soldier Field. One way that Soldier Field has kept its tie to the past is by holding on to its natural grass playing surface. Unfortunately, the unpredictable weather in the Windy City are not kind to a real grass playing surface.

This fact has wreaked havoc on the playing surface for years, and many of the players are calling for the Bears to finally give in and replace the grass with artificial turf. One who holds this opinion is Bears veteran star linebacker Brian Urlacher. According to NFL.com, he explained, “I don’t understand why they don’t have FieldTurf, yet. We’re a fast team. We play fast on FieldTurf. The injury issues aren’t as bad as they used to be (with artificial turf). They’ve gone down a lot in the last few years with the way they made the turf and stuff. So I don’t understand it. Use our speed. You know we can run. Let us go out there and run.”

Other players like Devin Hester and Robbie Gould share his opinion. The change is unlikely to happen this year. Be there to cheer on the team by getting Chicago Bears tickets from StubHub.