Buraco no gramado da CFL causa estragos no jogo da NFL em Winnipeg | Fora de jogo – Daily Hive

The NFL’s debut in Winnipeg didn’t exactly go according to plan.

And I’m not referring to how organizers hadserious trouble selling ticketsor how a player showed up wearinga “Winnipeg, Alberta” t-shirt.

The Oakland Raiders played the Green Bay Packers in a preseason game in front of an announced crowd of 21,992 in the Manitoba capital on Thursday. The Raiders won what was a reasonably entertaining game, erasing a 21-10 halftime lead by the Packers — kicking the winning field goal with eight seconds left in the fourth quarter.

The part that didn’t go according to plan concerned the field dimensions, which were changed in a last-minute decision because of a hole in each end zone.

IG Field, home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, is typically set up for a 110-yard CFL field, with 20-yard end zones and goal posts sitting on the goal line. The field was reconfigured for the NFL game: 100 yards in length, with goalposts set up at the back of each 10-yard end zone.

Just one problem. They failed to adequately patch up the hole where the CFL goal post is typically attached.

My man@TheMozKnowzsquatting next to the notorious patch and giving the people the TV visuals they needpic.twitter.com/PBzrRo6uhJ

— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman)August 23, 2019

NFL,#Packersand game officials check out the “hole” in the end zone before#Raidersgame.pic.twitter.com/N8JBhBAYx2

— Paul Gutierrez (@PGutierrezESPN)August 22, 2019

#Packers–#Raidersgame in Winnipeg will be played on a shortened field. The game will be played on an 80-yard field with pylons placed between the goal line and 10-yard line on both sides. Also no kickoffs. Teams will get the ball at the 10-yard line to start.pic.twitter.com/BJX20iknDt

— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate)August 23, 2019

Concerned over player safety, officials ruled that the game would be played on an 80-yard field, with no kickoffs, and the end zones moved to between the 0- and 10-yard lines.

This is what a touchdown looked like:

Good to have you back out there,@K_SMITH31. 🙌pic.twitter.com/PZ5cWkBGQk

— Oakland Raiders (@Raiders)August 23, 2019

Here’s where the pylons are placed to mark the end zone in Winnipegpic.twitter.com/A0IYwfvMkT

— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman)August 23, 2019

To make matters worse for fans that paid the extraordinary prices to see the preseason game, the Packers responded by sitting nearly all their starters (33 players) for the game — including the star quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Raiders head coach Jon Gruden disagreed with the decision to shorten the field.

“We thank the people of Winnipeg, we had a great experience. The field, I don’t know what that was all about. We thought the field was perfectly fine,” Gruden told reporters in his post-game media conference.

“I’m not going to make a big deal about the field. We liked the field. We thought the field was perfectly ready to roll. You’ll have to ask Green Bay about that.”