Will the 2020 NFL season be canceled due to COVID19?

Originally posted by susweel:

I don't think it will be cancelled but I do think it will start later than usual and probably less games.

An * year tho?

Originally posted by Morgan49:

Originally posted by susweel:

I don't think it will be cancelled but I do think it will start later than usual and probably less games.

An * year tho?

Huh?

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It's pretty likely that mini camps and summer camp are going to be cancelled or pushed back. If they are I don't see how they start the season on time. They can have online skull sessions so the players learn the system but they still need practice with contact before they can play.

2011 didn't have the offseason program start until late July. It'll be tough on rookies and teams with poor coaching, but the league will survive if they had to go straight from no practice to opening day.

Originally posted by captveg:
2011 didn't have the offseason program start until late July. It'll be tough on rookies and teams with poor coaching, but the league will survive if they had to go straight from no practice to opening day.

California has done a pretty god job of social distancing and keeping the number of COVID-19 cases down. The real problem is places like NY, NO and some of the places with denser populations. The league will not allow the season to start until the virus is under control everywhere. They can't let a couple teams start while others are still struggling. I know it's hard to imagine a year with no NFL but we've already lost half the NBA season, the NCAA championships, the start of baseball, half of Nascar, the Kentucky Derby, the Masters, the Olympics and tennis tournaments among other things. Some of these sports are talking about trying to squeeze in some events later this year but they can't all play at the same time. I'm going to assume there will be no NFL or at best a delayed season so if they end up playing a full season as scheduled I'll be happily surprised instead of disappointed.

In the long run I don't really care if the season doesn't happen. I'm just saying these predictions are based on variables that are changing daily here in early April. It's impossible to know so far out what is going to happen. Which is why I find the idea of stating September is too soon but November is just peachy ridiculous. Nobody knows jack s**t past this month.

This is getting crazy. Who would have ever thought that it would be corona and not the CBA to derail the season. I'd rather see them scrap the entire season, rather than trying to play a considerably shortend season.

It is April 9th, NOT July 9th....the season is FIVE months away

Originally posted by VA9erfan:

It is April 9th, NOT July 9th....the season is FIVE months away

Thank you!! Fkn thank you!!! Fkn people in here have their panties all wadded up

Originally posted by English:

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:

This is precisely what the English (and Chinese) want...

You need to worry more about what that nice Mr Putin wants.

omg people still believe that "muh russia" BS?!?!

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:

Originally posted by English:

Originally posted by Dr_Bill_Walsh:

This is precisely what the English (and Chinese) want...

You need to worry more about what that nice Mr Putin wants.

omg people still believe that "muh russia" BS?!?!

Oh look, a link to thedonald website. How cute. The President and his close supporters are such cogent arguers.

It is true that we are 5 months out yet, so it does seem strange to even think about a shutdown. My guess would be we are starting on the downside of the bell shaped curve and are entering the later stages of Covid 19, taking NY and NYC in particular into consideration. But consider they are noting a decr in # of new patients coming into hospital , while the # of deaths last 3 days has increased to average 777/day. That brings their total deaths to about 7800 and change, which just reflects large # of pts on respirators with around a 50% mortality rate. Only 3000 people died on 9/11.

So let's assume NYC numbers come down and then go way down, with # of dead stacking up, (they have a prodigious # of pts on respirators), and say NYC is semi back to normal come first week in Sept. I wonder how the survivor fans feel about going back to the ball park to root on their teams, the Jets and Giants? If you lived in NYC would you do that?

An even more interesting question is once it is safe to return to restaurants and to sit down for dinner, how many people in NYC are going to be anxious to do that? Bottom line question is , even if the Covid threat is basically done, how many folks are going to be willing to brave the crowds, the closeness of people being the main reason NYC got so destroyed by virus to begin with? Add to that the tens of millions who have lost their jobs , and are a lot more worried about how to put food on the table than watching a stupid football game.

Sure, many of us can't wait for the team to return to the field, but we have to acknowledge that there are a lot of other folks out there with a lot more deep seeded concerns, ie, just getting by. The nation will come back. But the route to return to normalcy will not look like it did just 5 short months ago. I think it possible that pro sports generally will be a lot further down the "must do" chain than we have seen previously .

Add to that the physical nearness of folks beside you, behind you and in front of you, with the possibility the Covid has another run at us in the fall when it cools off in the US, and it isn't hard to imagine a lot of ballparks being semi empty of fans. Add that to the financial hardships many families will be going thru, and you have the makings of a sports world turned upside down.

What would that look like here? Well, I assume virtually all our fans in the ball park are not owners of software companies in Silicon Valley. Some sure, not all. How will that affect fans returning to ball parks? What if we do have a phase 2 Covid bout?

The problem with seeing full ballparks out there once the virus issue is under control, is the # of unknowns, things nobody has even thot about plus the downsides, and some of which are noted above. I'm lousy at betting, but wouldn't be surprised to see the gestalt of NFL football a drastically changed game/ experience when one considers all aspects of it. The economy could just snap right back...but i doubt it. The logistics associated with that is mind numbing. The behavior of us, citizens and fans, will definitely have been changed. And that includes fans at the ball park too.

An optimist would say, "Phooey. I'm going to the ball park regardless". I just think we are in for a rough road ahead and "normal" won't be what it once was.

How would sports look different? IDK, but i can see it. As Nancy Pelosi once famously said, "you'll have to read the bill once we pass it , to understand it" . That is kinda what it feels like. I will be ecstatic...but surprised ...if we are playing ball come Sept. It sure would be good for the American psyche, not to mention every other sports crazy country in the world.

Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
It is true that we are 5 months out yet, so it does seem strange to even think about a shutdown. My guess would be we are starting on the downside of the bell shaped curve and are entering the later stages of Covid 19, taking NY and NYC in particular into consideration. But consider they are noting a decr in # of new patients coming into hospital , while the # of deaths last 3 days has increased to average 777/day. That brings their total deaths to about 7800 and change, which just reflects large # of pts on respirators with around a 50% mortality rate. Only 3000 people died on 9/11.

So let's assume NYC numbers come down and then go way down, with # of dead stacking up, (they have a prodigious # of pts on respirators), and say NYC is semi back to normal come first week in Sept. I wonder how the survivor fans feel about going back to the ball park to root on their teams, the Jets and Giants? If you lived in NYC would you do that?

An even more interesting question is once it is safe to return to restaurants and to sit down for dinner, how many people in NYC are going to be anxious to do that? Bottom line question is , even if the Covid threat is basically done, how many folks are going to be willing to brave the crowds, the closeness of people being the main reason NYC got so destroyed by virus to begin with? Add to that the tens of millions who have lost their jobs , and are a lot more worried about how to put food on the table than watching a stupid football game.

Sure, many of us can't wait for the team to return to the field, but we have to acknowledge that there are a lot of other folks out there with a lot more deep seeded concerns, ie, just getting by. The nation will come back. But the route to return to normalcy will not look like it did just 5 short months ago. I think it possible that pro sports generally will be a lot further down the "must do" chain than we have seen previously .

Add to that the physical nearness of folks beside you, behind you and in front of you, with the possibility the Covid has another run at us in the fall when it cools off in the US, and it isn't hard to imagine a lot of ballparks being semi empty of fans. Add that to the financial hardships many families will be going thru, and you have the makings of a sports world turned upside down.

What would that look like here? Well, I assume virtually all our fans in the ball park are not owners of software companies in Silicon Valley. Some sure, not all. How will that affect fans returning to ball parks? What if we do have a phase 2 Covid bout?

The problem with seeing full ballparks out there once the virus issue is under control, is the # of unknowns, things nobody has even thot about plus the downsides, and some of which are noted above. I'm lousy at betting, but wouldn't be surprised to see the gestalt of NFL football a drastically changed game/ experience when one considers all aspects of it. The economy could just snap right back...but i doubt it. The logistics associated with that is mind numbing. The behavior of us, citizens and fans, will definitely have been changed. And that includes fans at the ball park too.

An optimist would say, "Phooey. I'm going to the ball park regardless". I just think we are in for a rough road ahead and "normal" won't be what it once was.

How would sports look different? IDK, but i can see it. As Nancy Pelosi once famously said, "you'll have to read the bill once we pass it , to understand it" . That is kinda what it feels like. I will be ecstatic...but surprised ...if we are playing ball come Sept. It sure would be good for the American psyche, not to mention every other sports crazy country in the world.

Good post.

There are a lot of "ifs" to be answered before the season starts,

The biggest if is IF the virus infection number come down will there be a second and third wave? That is what happens with pandemics. It wasnt the first wave that was the big killer in the Spanish Flu. I would not be dropping my guard with this virus. I would be one of the ones still hanging around inside and staying away from crowd since I have high blood pressure, diabetes and allergies.

CFB already discussing a spring season

If the season actually gets cancelled, I'd laugh.

This would be karma for this stupid ass league and those refs screwing us in the Superbowl.