There may be enough concern over field conditions at the site of next Monday's game between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL to step in and do some repair work, according to a report from Peter King of NBC Sports Monday morning.

The Rams (9-1) and Chiefs (9-1) are scheduled to play next Monday night at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City in a long-awaited matchup between two of the NFL's best teams. However, King says field conditions at the stadium are currently poor enough for the NFL to head to Mexico City this week to see if extra work needs to be done in order to get the field in proper shape in time for gameday.

"There’s significant worry about the playing surface at Azteca Stadium, a multi-use combined grass-and-synthetic surface used for soccer and concerts mostly, made soupy by heavy rains in this year’s rainy season," wrote King in his Football Morning In America column. "Recent photos of the pitch look awful. The NFL will mobilize there today and tomorrow to see if surgery will be needed on the field before the game."

The field conditions at Azteca Stadium have been a concern for months, according to the Associated Press. Stadium officials acknowledged in August the field wasn't in satisfactory condition, then after improvements were made during the month of September, two concerts from pop artist Shakira in October left the field in a poor state that has yet to be fully repaired.

The state of the playing surface adds another twist to a game that will already involve unusual preparations for one of the two teams. The elevation of Azteca Stadium (7,200 feet) is pushing the Rams to practice over the next week at Colorado Springs, although the Chiefs will be not be making any similar changes to their practices in the days ahead.

“The elevation’s the elevation," Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told King. "I’m sure the Rams are gonna work at elevation. We’re not. I don’t think it becomes an issue. We did our homework on that this past offseason. It doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the parking lot of the CVS.”

Despite all the uncommon circumstances surrounding the game, the Chiefs seem to be trying to keep this week as normal as possible. In a discussion with the Chiefs Radio Network following his team's win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, Reid downplayed the differences between this game and any other, saying the Chiefs' approach this week will be business as usual.

"The guys, they’ll get a couple days here where they rest up, come in and get some film stuff done, but other than that, we’ll get ready for the Monday night game and we’ll treat it like a normal week as we go," Reid said Sunday. "It’s not as far as you think – when you see Mexico, you think, ‘Whoa man, we’re going to another country,’ but we’re right there, so it’s not too far as far as the plane trip goes. But we’ve got to have a good week of practice. We’ve got a good football team that we’re playing and it should be a heck of an environment for a football game."