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From turf to touchdowns: Super Bowl field preparations underway at Levi’s Stadium

(28 Jan 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++SNTV CLIENTS MAY USE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Santa Clara, California - 20 January 2026 1. Levi's Stadium exterior 2. NFL Field Director Nick Pappas walks onto the field ands checks out the grass 3. Various crews hold up electric cables to allow lines to be painted on the field 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Pappas, Field Director, National Football League: "I always joke with everyone, it's the most expensive real estate there is, everyone wants a piece of it." 5. Various painting lines on the field 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Pappas, Field Director, National Football League: "The new field was brought in, takes about two days to install the field, and then from there we start all of our typical maintenance practices, mowing, aerating, fertilizing, providing any supplementation such as light and fertility that you see out there now." 7. Glowing pink grow lights on the field 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Pappas, Field Director, National Football League: "Next week's a busy week, as we'll continue to maintain the field, but also introduce it as kind of a shared real estate, as I like to say, where some of our entertainment components will start to work on the field as well. So we'll bring down halftime rehearsals, pregame player intro rehearsals and pregame and postgame ceremony rehearsals. Things like that. Obviously trying to figure out the appropriate schedule and calendar as we get into Sunday." 9. Various BEAST machine demonstration 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Philipe Aldahir, Head of Surface Research, Biocore: "So the BEAST will apply loads that are equivalent to the loads NFL players apply to the surface when they're playing. So there are vertical loads and there are in-plane horizontal loads that the NFL players need to jump, stop, start, change direction, and perform their athletic movements. We've studied those conditions in a bio-mechanical way and used those data to inform what conditions this device needs to test for. So this device is loaded up with a characteristic cleat surface interaction from an NFL player and that's the condition that we use to measure the traction between the cleat and the surface." 11. Various BEAST's cleat surface pushes into the turf 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Pappas, Field Director, National Football League: "Game day, me personally, my eyes are usually pretty glued on feet hitting the field, so seeing how things are playing, just kind of taking it in and determining if there's anything we need." 13. End zone padding repairs 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Pappas, Field Director, National Football League: "We've done everyone's goal is to deliver perfection whether you're the group delivering the halftime show or you're that the field crew delivering the field, the goal is perfection for everyone. So got to work together and find a way to make it all happen" 15. Crews install a Super Bowl sign inside the stadium STORYLINE: Now that we know which teams will play in this year's Super Bowl, crews are frantically working to get the field ready for kickoff. National Football League Field Director Nick Pappas gave a behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive preparations underway at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Pappas says the new playing surface, which he jokingly calls the “most expensive real estate there is," takes about two days to install. Once in place, crews immediately begin maintenance, including mowing, aerating, fertilizing, and supplementing the field with additional light and nutrients. As game week approaches, the field becomes a shared space.  Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...