The NFL shut down all team facilities yesterday and today over concerns about Covid-19:
SPORTS: The NFL is ordering a shutdown of all team facilities to slow the spread of COVID-19. Commissioner Roger Goodell says team facilities will be closed to in-person activities today and tomorrow in a bid to slow the spread of the virus among players and staff (1/2).
— 93 WIBC Indianapolis (@93wibc) November 30, 2020
Apparently, the players who get together each weekend to spend four hours running into each other at full speed also spent Thanksgiving with family members and this, somehow, was an unacceptable risk of spreading the virus:
The NFL said it was taking the step partly because it's come to their attention that a number of players and staffers celebrated Thanksgiving with out-of-town guests. Teams playing today and Tuesday are exempt from the order (2/2)
— 93 WIBC Indianapolis (@93wibc) November 30, 2020
In other NFL insanity, the San Francisco 49ers will now keep players safe by moving them to Arizona for home games because contact sports are now illegal in their actual home city:
San Francisco 49ers will play "home" games in Arizona after COVID-19 rules ban team from playing at Levi's Stadium https://t.co/hePtprWX88
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 1, 2020
None of this makes any sense. Especially when the NFL does things like move the Ravens game not to keep people safe but for “competitive reasons”:
It’s one thing if you have to move games for safety concerns during a global pandemic. Most logical people get that and knew it was part of the deal this year. But the NFL just moved a game because a team wanted them to for competitive reasons. That’s what freaking happened.
— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) November 30, 2020
Don’t hate the player, hate the game:
I don’t even blame the Ravens for trying to use whatever power they have to benefit themselves. But it’s insane the National Football League caved. The NFL of all leagues let a team control them. I’d say it’s unbelievable, but I’d be lying.
— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) November 30, 2020
And on Sunday, the Broncos were forced to play with a practice squad player at QB because all their other QBs were sidelined due to Covid protocols:
There was a game today.
The final score is what it is.
Undrafted rookie WIDE RECEIVER @Kendall_Hinton2 came off the practice squad, had zero practice reps and competed in his first NFL game as the Broncos’ QUARTERBACK—an unprecedented situation.
He deserves all the respect. pic.twitter.com/C4UpkPTZBQ— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) November 29, 2020
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