Will there be a football season in 2020?

DropKickFlutie said:

Agree. If you mean they were all screwed/stopped already so yes more distance doesn't change that fact.

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I do NOT believe that they are screwed.

Testing is already available that gives positive results within 15 minutes. If not positive, it takes another 10 minutes to make sure that the person is negative. I presume that this test is generally available by July (almost a sure thing).

I also presume some kind of treatment by July, but this isn't necessary.
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I recommend that

1) there be no fans in any sport until there is a vaccine that has been tested and accepted by the medical profession as an effective vaccine, not an an emergency one.

2) Training Camp, preseason and the regular season take place, perhaps with delays and adjustments. For example, we might lose the the OTA's and one preseason or two games.

3) when facilities are opened, perhaps on July 15, every person entering the facilities be tested, and then tested again when they leave. This will require additional staff to administer the tests, but this isn't a huge cost. Also, this will add an hour to the work day (1/2 hour on check and a 1/2 hour at checkout.

4) teams and the league can decide protocol for players and staff with regard to where they stay when away from home. I expect that teams would rent entire hotels.
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Given the money, interest and the advantage of a diversion for everyone, I think that this should be done.

I haven't though much about other sports, because I don't care about them very much. However, I would think that at least some other sports can be played without fans. The alternative will be that espn arranges lots of competition for their very strange sports (the ones that they show in the offsdseasons),

DropKickFlutie said:

Medical reports are coming out that 6 feet is insufficient for social distancing. So this is going to F a lot of sports seasons.

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Ray Lewis generally breaks the six foot rule every time he kills someone!

mgteich said:

I3) when facilities are opened, perhaps on July 15, every person entering the facilities be tested, and then tested again when they leave.

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So that’s about 200 people (per team) getting tested twice daily for roughly a month just to get to mid August.

yeah I’m sure the general public would have no problem with almost 400,000 tests being used in such a fashion....

XLIX said:

So that’s about 200 people (per team) getting tested twice daily for roughly a month just to get to mid August.

yeah I’m sure the general public would have no problem with almost 400,000 tests being used in such a fashion....

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Since when do elite institutions give even a little bit of a **** what the general public has a problem with?

Elijah said:

Since when do elite institutions give even a little bit of a **** what the general public has a problem with?

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If you don’t think the NFL is very conscious of public relations, then you must have been living in a cave this past decade....

mgteich said:

I do NOT believe that they are screwed.

Testing is already available that gives positive results within 15 minutes. If not positive, it takes another 10 minutes to make sure that the person is negative. I presume that this test is generally available by July (almost a sure thing).

I also presume some kind of treatment by July, but this isn't necessary.
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I recommend that

1) there be no fans in any sport until there is a vaccine that has been tested and accepted by the medical profession as an effective vaccine, not an an emergency one.

2) Training Camp, preseason and the regular season take place, perhaps with delays and adjustments. For example, we might lose the the OTA's and one preseason or two games.

3) when facilities are opened, perhaps on July 15, every person entering the facilities be tested, and then tested again when they leave. This will require additional staff to administer the tests, but this isn't a huge cost. Also, this will add an hour to the work day (1/2 hour on check and a 1/2 hour at checkout.

4) teams and the league can decide protocol for players and staff with regard to where they stay when away from home. I expect that teams would rent entire hotels.
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BOTTOM LINE
Given the money, interest and the advantage of a diversion for everyone, I think that this should be done.

I haven't though much about other sports, because I don't care about them very much. However, I would think that at least some other sports can be played without fans. The alternative will be that espn arranges lots of competition for their very strange sports (the ones that they show in the offsdseasons),

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A vaccine is at least 2 years away maybe more depending on effectiveness and safety.

OTAs are already gone. Nothing is happening prior to June 1.

Football is in the worst shape possible because it is a contact sport with the biggest rosters. There is no way the gov. would allow that amount of ridiculous testing for a sport and then of course what if some guys show up positive like happened in Japan with their basketball league? The whole thing was shut down again.

I think we all need to prepare for the real possibility that sports as we know it will not exist for a long period of time.

Seems not later 9 may the schedule will come out...let's see...

With only one bye in each conference in the NFL’s new playoff format, it is worth noting this: every Super Bowl participant for the past seven seasons has received a bye. The last team to make it that far without a bye was the 2012 Baltimore Ravens.

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mgteich said:

I do NOT believe that they are screwed.

Testing is already available that gives positive results within 15 minutes. If not positive, it takes another 10 minutes to make sure that the person is negative. I presume that this test is generally available by July (almost a sure thing).

I also presume some kind of treatment by July, but this isn't necessary.
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I recommend that

1) there be no fans in any sport until there is a vaccine that has been tested and accepted by the medical profession as an effective vaccine, not an an emergency one.

2) Training Camp, preseason and the regular season take place, perhaps with delays and adjustments. For example, we might lose the the OTA's and one preseason or two games.

3) when facilities are opened, perhaps on July 15, every person entering the facilities be tested, and then tested again when they leave. This will require additional staff to administer the tests, but this isn't a huge cost. Also, this will add an hour to the work day (1/2 hour on check and a 1/2 hour at checkout.

4) teams and the league can decide protocol for players and staff with regard to where they stay when away from home. I expect that teams would rent entire hotels.
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BOTTOM LINE
Given the money, interest and the advantage of a diversion for everyone, I think that this should be done.

I haven't though much about other sports, because I don't care about them very much. However, I would think that at least some other sports can be played without fans. The alternative will be that espn arranges lots of competition for their very strange sports (the ones that they show in the offsdseasons),

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You're being hopelessly optimistic.

First thought that crossed my mind when I read the thread title was “This better not be a f***n poll thread!”

OTA...Training camp will be a no go. I don't see how the NFL plays in 2020. I really don't see any pro sports being played here the rest of 2020

And if they are playing in empty stadiums..I guess better than nothing but if this comes back in the fall...we will back at square one. Wonder how this is going to work for us STHs.

Them hell bent on having the draft is a joke. Personally I really won't watch or care. There are bigger things going on right now. I'll follow it on Twitter or from here but I won't care at all.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

Can you make partial football season an option?

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A one game season. That way we can sign Antonio Brown again and keep him focused for at least three quarters before the next meltdown.

Covid 19 is mainly "community acquired" so there's no way the NFL plays this year because there's so much physical contact between players. The virus will also be back in the Fall even if it calms down over the next few months, and if they have no vaccine...no NFL. Even if they have a vaccine they need enough of it to go around and that's not a given in a relatively short period of time.

XLIX said:

So that’s about 200 people (per team) getting tested twice daily for roughly a month just to get to mid August.

yeah I’m sure the general public would have no problem with almost 400,000 tests being used in such a fashion....

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If we don't have tens of millions of masks, and unlimited test available, then hundreds of thousands will indeed die.
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Of course, if there are not enough tests by the time of training camps, there will be no training camps.

However, for the US not to have essentially unlimited tests (and masks) available by August would mean that the incompetence of the last 2 months would need to continue at an even greater level for the next FOUR months.

I do NOT believe that the incompetence can last that long.

However, I do believe that some states may get in the way of re-starting sports. I could see a RI governor banning games. My point is that won't be a reasonable position.