It says right there in the summary, they're going to talk to the union about getting real grass instead of synthetic turf. That'll solve climate change, right? Close enough?

Air conditioning systems running on diesel generators to cool the stadium with very little insulation

I was going to suggest a ludicrous work-around, like air-conditioned football fields, but apparently we already have those...

They had huge ACs in qatar for the world cup 22. They let one of the hottest places on earth to host a world cup. Imagine the scale of energy required to accommodate the stadium, players, and massive number of visitors for a month in god damn Qatar.

https://safereddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/z09ivx/massive_ac_units_in_the_world_cup_stadiums/

It's going to be held in Saudi Arabia in 2034.

They don't give a shit about anything except the money. And the fans are the fucking same.

it'll become something you can bet on, then somebody will get busted for installing heaters under the turf

ice water football, ice water baseball and ice water Basketball. Sorry the ice melted.

Ice Ice Hockey and Ice Field Hockey are gonna be interesting.

We cant let our kids play baskiceball, its like, insanely dangerous

Yeah, what are the rules to that sport anyways?

There are no rules, baby. We just wail on each other

Imagine how disgustingly humid that'd be

Water it and you would get a Sauna

They're called athletes and they already have some white ones

Probably nothing compared to just wearing and washing polyester clothes and fabrics

Outside air-conditioning

Everybody, I love you

But what about the adhesives that bind the soles to the cloth parts?

True, but remember that these cleats aren't "most shoes" and include some comparatively exotic materials. They'll stop holding their shape well before 350°F or literal melting into liquid. Having worked with similar materials in the past and having just refreshed my memory with some spec sheets because you piqued my curiosity, I buy it.

• PU shoe adhesives are designed to reactivate at roughly 50–80°C. This would absolutely have turned into goo.
• EVA foam softens and takes a permanent set around 60–90°C. Squished, deformed foam is "melted" to most people.
• Soft TPU and TPR are long past their rated temperature by then, but they creep and get gummy well below their melt point. Players reported "soft plastic" causing issues and I'd bet this is why.

Otherwise, 157°F is one reading of the turf surface (I'm assuming, at least — haven't seen documentation of how this was measured). Contact points, dark spots, a foot grinding in all have a shot at being even hotter.

tires are vulcanized rubber. most modern shoes are not.

There were already a lot of grumbles about the stadiums that put in natural turf this summer for the FIFA World Cup only to switch back to artificial for the NFL season.

Weirdly a few years ago when the FIFA Women’s World Cup was in Canada, FIFA made all the stadiums switch to artificial turf for the tournament, even stadiums with natural fields. They were using it as an experiment but the players did not like it, so I guess it’s natural turf only now.

Seriously, that's insane!

They should at least bring some steaks down there and sous vide them for after the game. (Obviously not to 157°F. That's barbaric.)