Breaking on CNN - NFL cancels pre-season games

[malaise]

Just shut it all down

[underpants]

1. Browns fans are disappointed

This is usually where the undrafted rookies from Mt. Union really shine before getting cut.

[JDC]

18. Lol

[rurallib]

2. If baseball can't control the virus how the hell does football ever imagine it can?

Wonder how many will die in their "noble" experiment?

[BadGimp]

3. I gotta believe that what happened to the Florida Marlins baseball players spooked a lot of folks

It did me...

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Yep, Especially Since...

...beginning July 1, MLB has had 99 cases and one team had 14 in 3 days.
The Marlins f'd something up.
There are 30 teams. 8 have had zero cases. 21 teams have averaged around 4, and one team had 14?
Sounds like a few teams, one particularly, took this less seriously.

[Sherman A1]

4. It would make more sense to cancel the season now

and get past this "whistling past the graveyard" mentality, but they will get there eventually. I guess that TV money makes the decision hard to make.

[Blue_true]

7. I believe it would be better for the NFL to try to have a season and fail.

I believe that will put to rest that we are capable of having Sports at any level in this country. Germany has successfully restarted Sports, but we don’t have the societal discipline that Germany has in dealing with this virus.

[crickets]

11. The problem is that the failure could get people killed. Is it really worth it? nt

[Blue_true]

14. I believe that if the NFL don't fail pretty fast, millions of school kids will be

playing across the country, in some cases with people in the stands. By having the NFL fail fast, lives will likely be saved as the curtain is pulled open to expose what the NFL brass is trying to slip by - because then school and college sports will slam close, seasons will be cancelled and millions will avoid exposure. If the NFL gets an ambiguous result, lots of stuff will open up and seasons will start, I want clear, fast absolute failure by the NFL.

[crickets]

16. You do make a good point.

It's disgusting that lack of leadership at the top puts us all in this situation.

[Sherman A1]

21. I understand your point

I disagree that the failure of professional sports to operate in a pandemic of this nature will translate into schools making the decisions to close. As you stated we as a country lack the discipline and I don’t see the public making the leap in logic to get us to the point where schools close.

[Blue_true]

26. I was talking about Sports shutting down.

But now that the subject is on schools.

There seems to be a growing body of data that indicates that kids under 10 would be safe in school. But even if there is only a 0.05% chance that one in that age group would die from COVID19, what parents would want to be the parents of that 0.05%? I believe this is going to come down to parents, if they are ok with school opening risks and being parents of a dead child, schools will reopen. What I envision is a piecemeal approach around the country, in the absence of federal and in some cases state leadership. States like Massachusetts, which has excellent schools and strong healthcare infrastructure will be a place to watch in regards to what that state does with school openings. I expect disaster in my state of Florida, we have a Trump loving idiot as governor, he seems easily overwhelmed by lots of things, I don’t envision him improving and getting the handling of schools right.

[mucifer]

5. dozens of guys jumping on top of each other... what could go wrong???

[guillaumeb]

6. When exactly is COVID19 going to magically disappear?

Asking for 325 million US residents.

[Blue_true]

15. It disappeared in Trump's mind. But there was nothing there to begin with. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

23. March 2020

Everybody knows it's 15 cases, soon down to zero.
That's why all the drones have now is "it's all exaggerated". Because it went to zero in March!

[stopbush]

8. I thought they did that a couple of days ago.

https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/nfl-cancels-2020-preseason-but-training-camps-will-begin-as-scheduled

[maryellen99]

9. They originally cut the number of preseason from 4 to 2 nt

[stopbush]

10. From the article I linked to:

As part of the agreement reached Friday between the NFL and the NFLPA, all 2020 preseason games have been canceled. Without any on-field work in the spring, the Eagles would have been expected to take the field for their first preseason game in Indianapolis in just 19 days. The regular-season opener remains scheduled for September 13 at the Washington Football Team. Friday's agreement allows for Training Camps to open across the league.

[BannonsLiver]

12. They did. It's not breaking news.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. CNN is late to the game

(pun intended) That was decided last week.

[BGBD]

17. Shouldn't be shocking

They had decided to cancel preseason games over a week ago, probably longer. Getting rid of preseason games, or reducing them, has been on the NFLPA agenda for a long time.

[Baclava]

19. Breaking Week Old News Alert! lol They need a good earthquake, for that disaster porn edition

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. Pity. Rump had invited himself to throw the first pass. nt

[ecstatic]

24. It should have been shut down months ago, back in March!

Maybe things would be close to normal right now!

[Maxheader]

25. Tough not being able to afford..

the same lifestyle as a year ago...NFL pays good.

Another year older and deeper in debt...it won't hurt

these guys to take a season off..For all the suffering

sport fans...I've done my own...My Kansas Jayhawks..

Rated numero uno, NCAA hoops..heading for the

championship...shut down... ....My kc chiefs...superbowl

winner...with the potential for another in 21'...If they play, at all.

Without fans it won't be the same...mean as much...