Do you sympathize with NFL players being told to go back to work?

Currently, players have some safety demands before they are willing to go back to work. The NFL can ignore those demands, and if a player fails to report, they will be in breech of contract. Which side of the issue do you support?

Shut up and play football!

lol we don't care about players having brain damage, this shouldn't be an issue. I NEED FOOTBALL

If they don't want to play and not get paid this year that's up to them.

they can all go flip burgers IMO

Originally posted by susweel:

If they don't want to play and not get paid this year that's up to them.

This. They shouldnt be forced to work but dont collect a check like the real world. I dont want to see sports until this is sorted out.

I don't sympathize with players for 99.9% of the s**t the current generation b***hes and whines about.

Originally posted by pdizo916:

Originally posted by susweel:
If they don't want to play and not get paid this year that's up to them.

This. They shouldnt be forced to work but dont collect a check like the real world. I dont want to see sports until this is sorted out.

are players still expecting to be paid if they dont work? that would be pretty dumb. maybe the low paid players should still get salaries (training camp type guys), but if you've been making a 1mil+ a year, f**k off.

I work in a hospital lab where we do Covid testing for damn near the entire state of illinois. I make $13.64 an hour. I have absolutely zero sympathy or empathy for any of the players in relation to the virus. I show up to work every damn day. So does my girlfriend. She works in the womens care unit on the 5th floor.

Covid should be the last thing these clowns worry about. How about CTE? Funny how that's gone away. Nobody has anything to say about degenerative brain disease. Now they are worried about a virus in which the survival rate for them and their immediate families is in at the very worst case 98.9-99%. And I'm being generous. As of June 17th it was 99.4% survival rate for ages 25-34 year olds. Under 25 its 99.9%. Children ages 14 and under its 99.99% Source is the CDC

Originally posted by SisterFister:
I work in a hospital lab where we do Covid testing for damn near the entire state of illinois. I make $13.64 an hour. I have absolutely zero sympathy or empathy for any of the players in relation to the virus. I show up to work every damn day. So does my girlfriend. She works in the womens care unit on the 5th floor.

Covid should be the last thing these clowns worry about. How about CTE? Funny how that's gone away. Nobody has anything to say about degenerative brain disease. Now they are worried about a virus in which the survival rate for them and their immediate families is in at the very worst case 98.9-99%. And I'm being generous. As of June 17th it was 99.4% survival rate for ages 25-34 year olds. Under 25 its 99.9%. Children ages 14 and under its 99.99% Source is the CDC

you need to explain your username...

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Well, if they don't play they should earn 0$ just like thousand of non essentials workers who have been screwed by this quarantine.

I don't sympathize with them because there are tons of people that are working jobs that pay way less and that have higher odds of contracting COVID. How many hundreds of people are in and out of Wal-Mart and other grocery stores every day that could potentially come in contact with it.

Not to mention these guys are in their primes in peak physical condition so they out of all people have little to fear from dying if they do contact it. They honestly have more to fear from CTE than they do with COVID.

Now I don't completely dismiss their concerns either because they do have families and potentially people around them that are at risk so I understand them wanting the NFL to do what they reasonably can to limit it's impact but I do feel they are going a little overboard with it.

To me just have teams have aggressive disinfection regimes of the locker rooms, weight rooms, etc before and after use. Weekly testing and limiting the amount of exposure they have with the media and people outside of their organizations.

The other problem is as much as these NFL players talk about safety you know a lot of them are still going to be hitting the club scene after the game and they have a way higher chance of contacting COVID there than they would on the field.

A lot of people don't seem to be able to separate essential and non-essential jobs. No one who works in a non-essential job should be forced to work right now if it's not safe and nothing could be less essential than football.

Originally posted by JimmyWhy:
A lot of people don't seem to be able to separate essential and non-essential jobs. No one who works in a non-essential job should be forced to work right now if it's not safe and nothing could be less essential than football.

This is true - sports doesn't have to come back right now. This thing is just spreading too quick. We need to shut everything down and start from scratch again.