Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos furious over 'reckless' action during preseason game

Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos has slammed the league and his own team for the state of the field during their recent preseason game.

Preseason is a time for everyone that’s involved in an NFL team to fine-tune everything that they need in order to get ready for the new season. Whether it be a quarterback who is getting used to a new offense, or a head coach that has to implement their schemes, there is a lot of work that needs to be done so that the team can hit the ground running.

And being prepared is something that goes on throughout the organisation and isn’t necessarily restricted to the playing staff. Concession workers need to get used to the speed of things, equipment staff need to make sure that the players have everything the way they like it so that they can be comfortable on the field, and the field itself needs to be ready for the months of heavy work it’s going to go through.

Although it appears as though the grounds crew for the Chicago Bears didn’t get the message as the Soldier Field turf was far from acceptable for their game this weekend just gone.

The Bears played host to the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday in their first game of the preseason, and whilst they were able to topple Patrick Mahomes and crew, that wasn’t the biggest talking coming out of the encounter.

The field at Soldier Field was in a very bad state for the game, with a lot of the blame seemingly being put on the Elton John concert that took place back on the 5th of August:

This is not photoshop. This is what the field actually looks like today. pic.twitter.com/NCtRAJxYWK

That Elton John concert last week destroyed the turf at Soldier Field. pic.twitter.com/fx4ey5CbV2

There was more than a week between the concert and the game, so