If the Aloha Stadium turf is getting worn these days, part of it might be from all the inspectors who have poked, pried, prodded or trod on it recently.

Since U.S. Soccer abruptly canceled the Women’s National Team’s match against Trinidad and Tobago less than 24 hours before the scheduled Dec. 6 date citing safety concerns, Hawaii Bowl teams San Diego State and Cincinnati, as well as the NFL, have inspected the premises.

Now, the NFL Players Association wants to come see for itself next week.

That would be fine, of course, except that the NFLPA said it wanted to do its inspection Jan. 28, three days before the Pro Bowl.

The state should tell the NFLPA, “Come on down, but do it this week.”

This is not to say that the NFLPA has some nefarious scheme up its sleeve behind what a spokesperson has termed a “routine” inspection — though it has declined to comment on the reasoning. But if you are once-burned Aloha Stadium, why take the 11th-hour chance of getting caught in the middle of somebody else’s squabble again?

It is clear that what happened with the soccer cancellation had less to do with the condition of the turf and more to do with the frayed relations between the U.S. women’s team and its governing body, U.S. Soccer.

The U.S. women’s team has long demanded the option of playing on grass fields that the U.S. men routinely get. And the women should be similarly entitled.

Halawa is where the U.S. women’s team chose to make its stand, one that embarrassed not only the intended target, U.S. Soccer, but collaterally Aloha Stadium.

Never mind that the University of Hawaii football team and its opponents had played seven games there, including one just a week prior to the cancellation, without a peep of protest. Or that an NFL field test report of Nov. 13 obtained by the Star-Advertiser raised no concerns.

Subsequently Hawaii Bowl teams practiced and played there without a discouraging word.

The NFL routinely does a field test in the month preceding the Pro Bowl and, in its follow-up field test report of Jan. 4, 2016, “the Aloha Stadium has passed inspection,” NFL Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy told the Star-Advertiser.

Fact is by the time the NFLPA gets around to its requested inspection, the field will be under the supervision of the NFL. “As in all NFL venues, grooming and maintenance will continue under the supervision of an NFL grounds person until after the game,” McCarthy said. “This is standard procedure and consistent with all venues utilized, including the Hall of Fame game and International Series.”

Don Follett, the Baltimore Ravens’ head groundskeeper, is expected to oversee the field for the Pro Bowl.

So, the State should open the gates to the NFLPA to come see for itself. But only if the players’ union, much of whose leadership has been in Los Angeles this week, agrees to come in sooner rather than later.

Reach Ferd Lewis at flewis@staradvertiser.com or 529-4820.