mild wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:42 pmBut is it enough? Anything short of a bubble is basically admitting that the risk of a player catching COVID is an acceptable one, and the price of doing business in 2020.
I'm not being hyperbolic; I'm just pointing out the obvious. If players catching COVID is acceptable practice (and even fans if you believe some of these teams) then where does that buck stop? If Andy Reid bites the big one (knock on wood, but he might be the highest risk coach out there) because he doesn't want to be the one not showing up for his team - then yes, he will have died fully knowing the risk he took.
But the immediate public discourse will be "to what end" and "did we really need football in a pandemic" (no) and "could the league have done more to prevent this" (yes). It is not hyperbolic nor hard to foresee this.
He used italics on the word "something", implying they weren't doing anything at all, which isn't true. I really have no idea sitting from my vantage point, and am not nearly educated enough on the issue to have a truly informed opinion. Nor does anyone else here, I suspect. I have been very critical of the NFL's stand point on fans and Hard Knocks, but the idea that they aren't doing anything at all is just false.