Posted on 04/28/2020 10:18:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Whether or not football will be played this year is still to be determined. No definitive decisions have to be made with previously scheduled training camp report dates three months away.
In the meantime, however, the NFL is trying to proceed with business as usual, demonstrated this past weekend by moving ahead — and successfully so — with the NFL Draft. Next on the league’s agenda will be releasing its schedule for the 2020 season.
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They should push the super bowl back 100 years to like 2120.
Got to be safe!
Memo to Dak: sign your contract now, salary cap is not going to rise as much as you think. Companies aren't going to have the cash to buy the usual amount of commercial time for the next few years.
“Sources in the league’s front office tell me the NFL is talking with Delta Airlines on a variety of issues, including trying to assure that each franchise has two dedicated jets for their use only. These jets would be taken out of general circulation and would be used only by the franchise they are assigned to.
I would suspect these jets would come with dedicated crews who would have to be tested endlessly.
I’m also told that the league is talking to Marriott Hotels with the thought process of securing hotels that will be dedicated to teams in NFL cities.”
https://www.profootballnetwork.com/day-1-2020-nfl-draft-live-blog-pauline/2/
Put all the precautions in place and if they don’t need them, they don’t need them. Seems reasonable to me.
Well, the NFL has a lot of experience with empty stadiums.
I would hope that by the time football season rolls around, that we will have worked through this virus crisis, and that lockdowns, and bans on large crowds such as those who go to stadiums, will be long gone.
LOL, empty stadiums.
I recall there were so many reasons put out there, aside from revulsion at Kapernick and kneeling, for the attendance decline.
They talked of how so many teams were out of playoff contention, bad weather that fall and winter, people traveling for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so fewer people went to the stadiums. Etc. Anything besides revulsion at players protests were put forth as excuses for attendance declines.
The final plan must be approved by Dr. Debbie Downer!
there will be a season in 2020:
1- it may start later than usual
2- they may play in front of empty stadiums
3- the lack of rookie mini-camp and potentially an abbreviated summer camp means you will see a lot of poor play from the rookies in 2020..
Bingo!
No
Fans
Left
Super Bowl in March?
Forget it.
Play 12 game season. no wild card, no week off before Super Bowl.
Get out of the way for the real sport, baseball.
Let’s pray for it. I have been trying to figure out what i going on with the disease itself and I think I have a pretty good picture. Got a little first hand (okay second hand) info today. My neighbor who thinks he caught the “flu” in March on a trip to visit family in North Jersey chatted with my wife yesterday. Today she tells me part of what he told her was that he was so sick and SO TIRED driving home and he was just trying to follow the GPS and I kept getting “lost” and confused. It took him 3 days to drive a one day drive at most, apparently not stopping for a motel. Just driving for three days and resting in the car. A trip he makes all the time.
It’s exactly the story I would expect for somebody who was having his brain showered with microemboli. Disordered mentation, disorientation, impaired Judgement. He goes right down the list of “altered sensorium”. And he still thinks he had the flu. And he lives with his kids and a cousin and her kids. 6 or 7 of them in one home. I would bet they all have serocnverted.
I honestly think 75% of the country will be safe by Labor Day. Perhaps the Northeast and Northwest will still have issues but most of America will be over it.
I could see NFL stadiums being 30-60% filled to maintain social distancing but the sport can and should go on. But if there are still major concerns, they should consider a three-week training camp, no pre-season games, beginning the season around mid-September then eliminating the extra week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl.
Oh, and all international games will be rescheduled to be played in the “home” team’s stadium.
If there are *any* players who feel they can’t play for fear of infection, let them sit our the entire year without pay but with no punishment for future seasons. I guarantee you only a handful will agree to do that.
Wouldn’t that be pushing it forward 100 years?
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