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Artificial Turf

Ah yes, artificial grass—or as it was known in its original language, “AstroTurf,” which is Latin for “Why does my kneecap feel like gravel?” Invented in the mid-1960s and unleashed upon America’s athletes shortly thereafter, AstroTurf became all the rage in the 1970s because stadium owners discovered that maintaining real grass was expensive and...