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safe for 60,000 fans to attend a football game, .
Yes but there’s a difference between a couple hundred people - many of whom will be able to keep a good distance - and a jam packed 75,000 people in attendance.I’m not sure even empty stadiums will work because there are a **** Ton of people needed to put on an NFL game.
players, refs, coaches, medical staffs, broadcasting crews
lots of people. Lots.
What happens first, the coronavirus ends or the investigation into the Bengals camera incident?
MLB is planning to move past the season if they have to cancel and guys lose the year of their contract. That could happen here.The season must be played in some crippled way.
For the patriots its a bridge year anyway with a tough schedule, so a crippled season would make it tough for everybody else. The year after that we will have some 100m in cap space and a chance to be competitive. If they skip this season, our bridge year will just be postponed...
And of course we maybe won't have to endure Brady in a Bucs jersey.
Selfish, I know...
Funny you posted this, I had a discussion with someone else earlier and I don't see how they can fix this by September unless the government throws up their hands and gives up and accepts this as a new cyclical disease...which given what it's been doing, would be a nightmare.
I apologize for being unclear. I think that the games should be played without fans, and that having such games would be a great service to the country. However, I don't think that this should happen unless the players can be properly tested before and after the game.
MLB is planning to move past the season if they have to cancel and guys lose the year of their contract. That could happen here.
In addition to @mgteich 's comments, if we pull apart "cyclical" there may be some other reasons to be hopeful.
By August, we should have readily available testing for both "do you have it now?" as well as "have you had it already?" (live virus vs. antibodies). What if we find that a significant portion of the population has had it already (and had little or no symptoms, as the Iceland study seems to indicate is happening)?
There's an opportunity at that point to do successive rounds of social distancing with more vertical targeting (just those demographics that have proven vulnerable enough to need hospitalization). People who have already had it are free to go back to work and engage fully in social interactions. That might put at least a few fans in the stadiums. It could certainly open the restaurants, mass transit, etc.
And yes, people who have the antibodies would need some kind of highly visible indicator, which will be a bit creepy.
Just thinking out loud here.
Actually, thinking about this... it's going to be interesting... does any other sport except maybe wrestling/fighting have more close contact? It will start late if it does but there is also a theory that we are going to have a second wave in the fall and if we do, the season is over. It's a very complicated situation for the NFL. Goodell might have to actually earn his pay this year.
Yeah really. I’ve been amazed and depressed that at virtually every forking point the timeline takes the worst fork.I’ve found making predictions re:the virus quite simple really. I always choose the worst case scenario. Hasn’t really failed me yet.
No season.