Reminiscing on the popular Nike campaign featuring Bo Jackson, you may recall the catchphrase, “Bo Knows…” Bo seemed to know everything from his professional sports, Football and Baseball, to cycling, tennis, pro wrestling, and even how to play guitar! What Bo was not...
Ginger Allen, investigative reporter at CBS/Dallas-Fort Worth, contacted Dan Sawyer, CEO at Brock USA, to help shine some light on the issues facing safety in artificial turf fields. Her team found that out of 63 North Texas high school football teams, only nine of...
Brain injuries in contact sports are no laughing matter, but sometimes it takes satire to bring to light the urgency for reform. The hit Comedy Central show Key & Peele just released a short where a quarterback is sacked and suffers a concussion. After his head...
Safety of the playing surface dominated the discussions at the recent Synthetic Turf Council (STC) meeting in Las Vegas. As stated by Chris Nowinski during his keynote address, “Artificial turf is a piece of safety equipment” and should be treated with the same...
Lessening the impact for athletes’ long-term health is the core of why Brock manufactures the leading shock pads on the market for artificial turf sports surfaces. The opportunity to help bring Lance Briggs’ inspiring story to the world was something Brock’s...
Brett Favre took his last snap as an NFL quarterback on an icy December day in Minnesota in 2010. Chicago Bears, Corey Wootton, muscled his way through the Vikings line and drove Favre’s head into the artificial turf surface. The next 15 seconds Favre lay motionless...