NFL players are opting out of the 2020 NFL season

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I'm reading where a lot of our regional D3 schools will/have shut-down all fall sports...The cost for maintaining the testing alone is just too prohibitive. 

Costs wont be an issue for pro teams of course.

I agree that with NFL rosters being the size they are, 20 somethings being who they are, players going home to families etc...Sustainable seasson is going to be a lot to ask, maybe even wishful thinking. 

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No sex and no fans, but the beer is flowing fast in the NBA 'bubble'(CNN) — In 1987, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl and their quarterback Phil Simms uttered five immortal words: "I'm going to Disney World!" 

Thus began a tradition, which still continues to this day: The Super Bowl MVP has always repeated the line and is subsequently feted with a parade at a Disney park of their choice. 
For the next two-and-a-half months, the top basketball players will all be residing at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and they haven't had to win anything to get there.
But it's not necessarily the treat you might think; in fact some -- like the Lakers' LeBron James and the Trail Blazers' Damian Lillard -- have compared it to a prison sentence, both using slang on social media, saying they were off 'to do a bid.'" Welcome to Disney World! Or, between now and the middle of October, "Make yourself comfortable in the NBA 'bubble!'" 

Being referred to as a stretch in the joint is probably not the kind of gratitude the NBA was expecting when they wrestled with the biggest logistical challenge ever faced in the 74-year history of the league: how to resume and finish up a season amidst a global pandemic in a country which has struggled in the fight against Covid-19.Certainly Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown struck a more positive note.
"I think what the NBA has done ... in the environment we are all in is spectacularly brilliant," Brown told reporters. "I think it's elite -- I have zero complaints about anything that might prohibit us from doing our job."
And according to UFC boss Dana White, the 'bubble' approach is currently the only way forward for US sports."This isn't going to work outside of a bubble," White told CNN Sport earlier this week after the UFC staged a series of bouts on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
"You've got to have the bubble, you have to put people in lockdown, people can't be sneaking out, people can't go home. You know, in Abu Dhabi, the people [who worked with UFC] ... haven't seen their families in two months."
So far the NBA's approach looks to be working. On Wednesday, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and players' union announced that none of the 344 players tested since July 20 had tested positive for the coronavirus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/sport/nba...index.html

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@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:

@PurpleCrush said:
This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic.

One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them. 

This is why I dont believe a sustained NFL season is possible. There is no way they'll do something like the NBA is doing and Football is just that much more of a contact sport. 

No, for sure. I don't know what their "off-work" policy even is but whatever it is it's probably not going to work, considering the amount of players we're talking about, and the fact that most of them are young, wealthy, single and, well, let's just admit it, horny.

I guess I better start liking basketball again. What team is Larry Bird on these days? 

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I got the Bomba Squad for now, but baseball doesnt stir anywhere near the same passion in me football does. I really love me some NFL and SEC football.

I literally cant watch more that 10 minutes of the way the NBA game is played today. Used to love the game back in the days of Showtime etc.

I know, I know...