Posted on 11/25/2020 12:57:05 PM PST by Red Badger
The NFL canceled the Thanksgiving night game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens after a series of positive COVID-19 tests.
The postponement of the game, which will now be played on Sunday, was announced Wednesday afternoon. The decision, according to ESPN, came after seven different Ravens players tested positive for the coronavirus in the past three days: running backs Mark Ingram and J.K. Dobbins, quarterback Trace McSorley, center Matt Skura, guard Patrick Mekari, defensive end Calais Campbell, and outside linebacker Pernell McPhee. None of them will be eligible to play in Sunday's game.
"This decision was made out of an abundance of caution to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches, and game day personnel and in consultation with medical experts," the NFL said in a statement.
A number of Steelers players expressed their displeasure at the league's decision.
Steelers receiver Chase Claypool tweeted, “What a joke,” and tight end Eric Ebron commented, “I’m not gonna lie [NFL] THIS IS BULLSHIT."
The two other games that are scheduled for Thanksgiving, the Houston Texans against the Detroit Lions and the Washington Football Team against the Dallas Cowboys, will go on as scheduled.
The NFL has canceled or moved 13 games this season for coronavirus-related seasons. The Steelers had their schedule rearranged earlier this season when the Tennessee Titans had a handful of positive tests.
JuJu Smith-Schuster, another receiver for the Steelers, tweeted, “First the NFL takes away our bye week because another team can’t get their Covid situation together, now they take away our Thanksgiving primetime game for the same reason. Smh.”
So? I’d rather watch Home Alone 3 than that crap.
Ditto that. Of course, my hometown team is the Lie-ons, so no big loss.
Come on, NFL. Just cancel the Detroit Lions. Period!
Don't care though.
Has the NFL season started!
Bingo. They also knew that this Thanksgiving would have a lot of families sharing what they've been doing since they stopped watching Communist propaganda.
So, quarantine is for 14 days
They tested positive 3 days ago, and they are delaying the game for 4 days.
That still leaves 7 days for quarantine to be over.
So...What the F***?
Oh stop making sense!
Yup, it’s a lie. What they don’t want are people getting together during thanksgiving and watching the game.
Now do tell me.... WTF would watch these losers play anyways? What kind of “American” watches these pro sports anymore? Quislings, that’s who.
There goes the only halfway decent NFL game for Thanksgiving. The odds of me watching the NFL tomorrow just went from “hardly any” to “none at all”.
Tomorrow Decades is showing a Dean Martin Roast Marathon
Politically incorrect at its best!
I 
"I waaaaaz Dean Martins scout....scoutmaster. I remem....remem..remem....think back to our campouts. The time we would sit by the campfire, and roast our weiners. And toast our buuuuuuns!"
😂😂😂
Fake Football.
Fake televised football.
All propaganda.
Gone. Been gone.
And usually lose.
It spares them having the dismal ratings compared to previous years...
Lions and Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving because they volunteered for the first one..............
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