NFL enthusiasts are obviously in a position to play football, but it remains to be seen whether the new coronavirus is.
Sports leagues around the world have controlled to begin or resume their respective seasons despite the ever-present risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s the NFL’s turn.
We know that the 2020 NFL season will begin Thursday night when the Kansas City Chiefs, who won the Super Bowl about a month before COVID-19 closed the US. I’ll play over a few games this season. However, that’s all we’re comfortable with the prognosis.
The fact is, there are many tactics, some big, some small, the pandemic can have an effect on the 2020 NFL campaign. We are fast approaching the anniversary of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, China, but we still don’t know what each day may bring. People, like the sports leagues they play in and follow, adapt on the fly.
However, we’ve devised six vital tactics to make the COVID-19 pandemic the new NFL season.
Season shortened/cancelled Obviously, this is the most important thing. Most sports leagues that played the pandemic were forced to replace their schedules one way or another, and the NFL, despite its maximum productive efforts, may be heading towards a similar destination.
While COVID-19 figures have sometimes evolved in positive instructions in recent weeks, there is still the possibility of local, national and even global epidemics and, as we have noticed in the major leagues, all that would be needed is an epidemic in an NFL locker room that is absolutely disappointed for a week or two. In addition, fitness experts around the world have long argued that the fall and winter seasons may see the worst in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
If it were a suspension, shortening or cancellation of the season, it would be only the first of many dominoes to fall. What will the chains broadcast if there is no football, how many winnings are at stake?What about the rates that TV networks pay for games, what about the enthusiasts who pay for live sports?, what about all the collective bargaining madness we saw at MLB?
Hopefully none of them emerge.
We’re already starting to see some of that in the NFL, players positioned in the injured reserve after the 53-player removal on Saturday can return after just 3 weeks, compared to 8 weeks in the overall season. Surface of the new alignment regulations commissioned for what will be an exclusive season.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, unsurprisingly, intends to take full credit for the new guidelines.
But what if, say, 10 players tested positive for COVID-19 two days before a game?Of course, groups can summon players from their education groups, but they are not infinite tanks. In addition, the full games of green education players probably won’t. producing high-quality football is a sacrifice that we are probably all willing to make at this stage.
On a more positive note, that point of uncertainty can create cool scenarios, such as the Philadelphia Eagles that sign 41-year-old Josh McCown as an emergency quarterback.
The chaos of football Say what you need about fantasy football, but it is a vital component of the NFL season and should be taken into account in this discussion.
As long as there is an NFL season, there will be a football season, but if some of the madness of the list of players discussed in the previous segment materializes, the football leagues will be a general spectacle.
Will Internet service sites give players more places on the list?They probably deserve it, don’t they?Maybe you deserve to re-assemble the waiver order or something.
If things get weird, this season will bring a huge asterisk, unless it depends on who wins their league, of course.
Saturday games? Although unlikely, such a situation can result in an increase in Saturday NFL games, which only happens towards the end of the seasons.
We’ll save you legal jargon, but know that the NFL isn’t authorized to schedule school football seasons for Saturday games or Friday top football seasons. But if there are no seasons in school or high school, the door opens for the NFL. to get a short-term exemption and move the games to Friday or Saturday. It’s possible.
However, cash would be a huge factor. The NFL would probably like a bigger refund from television networks, as the ratings of those networks would actually increase through new NFL games.
On the other hand, the NFL would realize that Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Saturday games would be too much: “pigs grow, pigs are slaughtered,” as Mark Cuban once said.
Playoff bubbles As the NBA and NHL have shown, bubbles are the way to restrict COVID-19 instances in sports leagues, but for many reasons, the length of the season, the length of the list, to call some a viable solution for the normal NFL season.
The playoffs, however, can just be another story.
The league would make playoff bubbles. NFL Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent also left the door open. a position on the table.
Ultimately, the maximum groups will be operating in de facto bubbles this season, and that jumps into genuine treatment once it becomes sustainable.
Super Bowl without a fan The number of fans authorized to normal season games will be decided through state governments, rather than through NFL headquarters. Some groups will have enthusiasts in the stands in Week 1, while others will not have enthusiasts. for at least the first month. Some may not have them throughout the season.
Again, those COVID-19 graphics we all know and love will be the highlights to return the buttocks to the seats in some way.
But the Super Bowl ?! Maybe it’s a completely different animal.
This year’s Big Game will be held in Atlanta. No matter where, it’s hard to believe that the NFL won’t let any enthusiasts play in the Super Bowl, yet the situation is imaginable.
A fan-free environment can have an effect on the Super Bowl on more tactics than the mere absence of a slightly noisy, generally corporate crowd. Without the same hype of enthusiasts and the media, groups, experienced or not. might be able to concentrate on the real game and not be defeated by the magnitude of the moment. Or maybe the lack of rumors will cause some players playing in the Super Bowl to start coming without the urgency required.
The bright side? Maybe the NFL would give up the halftime show, which almost sucks.
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