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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has disparaging words for Levi’s Stadium

During the AstroTurf craze of the late 1960s, baseball slugger Dick Allen famously stated, “If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.”

Dick Allen, meet Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Appearing on his ESPN Seattle radio show on Monday, one day after the Seahawks lost to the 49ers in Santa Clara, Carroll said the Levi’s Stadium playing surface was as he expected: “really lousy.”

To the point of being equine unfriendly?

“It wasn’t great,” Carroll said. “There were guys slipping all over the place and you could see guys in pass protection, you could see guys on field goal protection sticking their cleats in the ground and it was moving.