https://sports.yahoo.com/dr-anthony-fauci-sports-leagues-skip-season-coronavirus-pandemic-052105349.html

If the NHL, MLB, NBA and MLS are cancelled...but the NFL plays their season in full, even the Super Bowl...then the NFL is the MOST Evil League out there!

wow

NFL may play some games to Saturdays if college football doesn't resume this fall (https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/nfl-weighing-saturday-games-if-college-football-doesnt-resume-in-fall/)

If the college football season is postponed, the NFL may move some games to Saturdays. The NFL usually takes over some Saturdays in December after the college football season is completed.

NFL is planning for a coronavirus-affected season that kicks off as late as Oct. 15 with a Feb. 28 Super Bowl (https://www.primetimer.com/item/NFL-is-planning-for-a-coronavirus-affected-season-that-kicks-off-as-late-as-Oct-15-with-a-Feb-28-Super-Bowl-JWSGBQ)

https://sports.yahoo.com/dr-anthony-fauci-sports-leagues-skip-season-coronavirus-pandemic-052105349.html

If the NHL, MLB, NBA and MLS are cancelled...but the NFL plays their season in full, even the Super Bowl...then the NFL is the MOST Evil League out there!

I hope so!

People should get up & work out instead of just sitting on the couch eating, drinking, & watching sports!

Report: Major League Baseball approves plan to start season in July (https://apnews.com/6195fbe572aa83a0616053e9133a8551)

The proposal, which needs to be approved by the players' union, focuses on starting the baseball season around the Fourth of July.

Report: Major League Baseball approves plan to start season in July (https://apnews.com/6195fbe572aa83a0616053e9133a8551)

The proposal, which needs to be approved by the players' union, focuses on starting the baseball season around the Fourth of July.

But so far the players have rejected revenue sharing.

Joe Buck: Fox Sports will use fake crowd noise for NFL games without fans (https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/05/13/joe-buck-pretty-much-a-done-deal-fox-will-use-fake-crowd-noise-for-games-without-fans/)

"It’s pretty much a done deal (https://awfulannouncing.com/fox/joe-buck-fox-adding-fake-crowd-noise-into-nfl-broadcasts-is-pretty-much-a-done-deal-if-there-arent-fans-in-the-stands.html)," Buck said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXV0__3wZC4) on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM radio show of NFL on Fox's coronavirus plans. He also suggested that Fox Sports will use virtual fans in the stands.

:mad::rolleyes:

well atleast I have Korean Baseball to fall back on

NBA could resume its season at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando (https://twitter.com/TheAthleticNBA/status/1263172882818981888)

Walt Disney World is the frontrunner to resume the 2019-20 season that was suspended in March due to coronavirus, reports The Athletic. The NBA's synergy with Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis welcoming pro sports teams may play a role in Walt Disney World hosting the rest of the NBA season.

NBA could resume its season at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando (https://twitter.com/TheAthleticNBA/status/1263172882818981888)

Walt Disney World is the frontrunner to resume the 2019-20 season that was suspended in March due to coronavirus, reports The Athletic. The NBA's synergy with Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis welcoming pro sports teams may play a role in Walt Disney World hosting the rest of the NBA season.

I doubt it

Will sports remain must-watch TV when fans aren't in the stands? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/sports/coronavirus-sports-fans.html)

"Without live spectators for an extended period, traditional games risk being reduced to mathematics with trading cards, especially once the novelty of sports’ return wears off," says Jeré Longman. "For those watching on television, spectators are necessary surrogates. They provide jersey-wearing pageantry, face-painted tribalism and adrenaline for the players. Their responses of jubilation and anguish verify our passionate responses. Their voices become our soundtrack, collectively rising in anticipation, thunderously exhaling in joy or disapproval. And they reinforce the belief that we can directly influence the outcome of a game with our loyalty and howling presence. Fallow stadiums would not signal a return to normalcy as states reopen. They would confirm that we remain in a time of dire abnormality, undercutting the appeal of sports as escape and distraction. And they would raise an uncomfortable question: If it is unsafe for people to gather in the stands or in places like restaurants and parks, why is it acceptable to ask athletes to compete for our entertainment? Especially since many sports rely heavily on black and brown athletes while Covid-19 disproportionately affects the lives of black and brown people in the United States."

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Political leaders are pushing for the return of sports because nothing screams "normal" like sports (https://gen.medium.com/your-leaders-want-sports-back-but-not-because-they-like-sports-54435e62e7a): "The political-industrial complex is not all THAT interested in whether or not the Chiefs can repeat as Super Bowl champs, but it knows you and I will be," says Drew Magary. "In a cascade of ironic developments, sports are potentially the most effective form of PR any politician can wield right now. Imagine if the NFL season is canceled. Imagine Joe Biden pointing at Trump and going, 'This guy here took your football season away.' There wouldn’t be an easier way to bury that man. Americans don’t care about all the dead bodies, because Americans don’t care about anyone anymore. But they would very much care if they turned on the TV on Sunday and found nothing but syndicated reruns of Star Trek: Voyager. They would be f***ing P***ED. I know I would be. I love football, and I hate the president."
It's probably not safe for sports to come back, but that may not matter (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/its-probably-not-safe-for-sports-yet-that-may-not-matter.html): "When you break down the American sports leagues’ plans to come back, that simple fact — that it’s not much safer out there, but states are opening up anyway — seems to be at the core," says Will Leitch. He adds: "At a certain level, can you blame them? When the governor of New York, the hardest hit state in the country, is saying the state will work with sports leagues to return, and the governor of California pronounces that fan-less pro sports could return in June, well, that’s just about all the cover the leagues need. The safety plan put forward by Major League Baseball in a mammoth memo is impressively granular in its detail. But it may not guarantee everyone’s safety; older coaches, support staff, and immune-compromised players will be particularly at risk. (MLB also has a steep mountain to climb selling the plan to the players union.) But if the majority of states and lawmakers are going full-speed ahead, or at least half-speed ahead, why wouldn’t leagues do the same? If Georgia is opening its freaking Crunch gyms, it doesn’t seem all that insane to try to play some basketball. Here’s the thing, though: It might still be insane, because we’re all sort of walking around in the dark here."
Korean baseball and German Bundesliga show the challenges of fan-less games for players (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/bundesliga-sports-return-pandemic-athletes-fans-shared-imagination/611857/): "As elite athletes, whose bodies and minds are steeled by repetition and regimen, return from quarantine to their professional craft, their training will include adapting to a new psychological reality," says Danny Chau. "For those accustomed to playing in packed arenas, the absence of spectators is a big hurdle to overcome...Getting used to ghost games may be harder for athletes than for their fans. Broadcast media of all kinds have taught listeners and viewers to appreciate the game from afar. But the professional athlete has routines and rituals built around the energizing presence of crowds." He adds: "Uproarious fans in a stadium create a pressurized atmosphere designed to test the mettle and anxieties of an athlete."
Sports broadcasting legends weigh in on fan-less games (https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/broadcasting-legends-see-sports-job-returning-differently/): Al Michaels believes broadcasters should be in NFL stadiums, Marv Albert expects to call NBA games from a studio.
Quirky sports like cornhole have helped fill the pandemic void (https://variety.com/2020/sports/news/espn-nbc-cornhole-lacrosse-1234605469/)

Sheesh! Can't people live without sports for just 1 year?? Actually way LESS than a year because the NFL will be back.

Cancel the rest! BILLIONAIRES & MILLIONAIRES don't need our pity!

Sheesh! Can't people live without sports for just 1 year?? Actually way LESS than a year because the NFL will be back.

Cancel the rest! BILLIONAIRES & MILLIONAIRES don't need our pity!

If the NFL plays the 2020 season while the other leagues didn't play at all during this year...then **** American Football...especially the NFL!

A player dying from coronavirus is the only thing that would stop sports now (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/the-only-thing-that-would-stop-sports-now.html)

"Forgive me for being macabre, but I think the only thing that would stop them is nothing short of a player death," says Will Leitch. "Coaches and support staff and those surrounding the game are older than the athletes, and therefore at higher risk. Therefore, one could imagine that leagues (and even many fans) would be able to disassociate themselves from something terrible happening to one of them — expressing remorse and sadness, but not responsibility...But if a player dies? The whole thing would go up in smoke, and probably not just in the short term. An athlete death would be a stain on these leagues forever. Again: The odds are against it. But all it takes is one. It’s not as if some players aren’t at least somewhat immunocompromised: NBA MVP James Harden has asthma, for example, and MLB All-Stars Carlos Carrasco and Kenley Jansen have both undergone heart procedures. They would likely be okay, even if they contracted the disease. Almost all players would be. But again: All it takes is one. If one player were to succumb to this virus that has already killed nearly 500,000 people worldwide, the whole calculus for the entire return of sports would collapse. It wouldn’t be seen as something that could unite us, or distract us, or provide solace during an uncertain time. It would just be seen as a cash grab for executives sitting in luxury suites, viewing from a safe distance as a player they rushed back to the field lost their life. This is unlikely to happen. The entire sports-industrial complex is assuming it’s not going to happen. But it could. . If you’re wondering why sports is forging forward despite positive tests, it’s because the people who run sports do not think the virus is going to kill any of its players. Let us all pray that they are right."

A player dying from coronavirus is the only thing that would stop sports now (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/the-only-thing-that-would-stop-sports-now.html)

"Forgive me for being macabre, but I think the only thing that would stop them is nothing short of a player death," says Will Leitch. "Coaches and support staff and those surrounding the game are older than the athletes, and therefore at higher risk. Therefore, one could imagine that leagues (and even many fans) would be able to disassociate themselves from something terrible happening to one of them — expressing remorse and sadness, but not responsibility...But if a player dies? The whole thing would go up in smoke, and probably not just in the short term. An athlete death would be a stain on these leagues forever. Again: The odds are against it. But all it takes is one. It’s not as if some players aren’t at least somewhat immunocompromised: NBA MVP James Harden has asthma, for example, and MLB All-Stars Carlos Carrasco and Kenley Jansen have both undergone heart procedures. They would likely be okay, even if they contracted the disease. Almost all players would be. But again: All it takes is one. If one player were to succumb to this virus that has already killed nearly 500,000 people worldwide, the whole calculus for the entire return of sports would collapse. It wouldn’t be seen as something that could unite us, or distract us, or provide solace during an uncertain time. It would just be seen as a cash grab for executives sitting in luxury suites, viewing from a safe distance as a player they rushed back to the field lost their life. This is unlikely to happen. The entire sports-industrial complex is assuming it’s not going to happen. But it could. . If you’re wondering why sports is forging forward despite positive tests, it’s because the people who run sports do not think the virus is going to kill any of its players. Let us all pray that they are right."

I'd rather have all sports cancelled for one season.

Can't people find something else to do beside watching stupid sports for just ONE season??

Go work out! Hit the weight room! Go run on the track or on a trail! Go bike on a bike path! Go swimming!

Do something besides sitting on the couch watching stupid sports!

I'd rather have all sports cancelled for one season.

Can't people find something else to do beside watching stupid sports for just ONE season??

Go work out! Hit the weight room! Go run on the track or on a trail! Go bike on a bike path! Go swimming!

Do something besides sitting on the couch watching stupid sports!


and to see it without fans is even more weird so I agree lets cancel it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/02/tv-networks-nfl-season-coronavirus/

CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC -- the four major networks that carry NFL games -- declined to say if they have contingency plans. But an ESPN source tells The Washington Post that nothing can replace the NFL, while a Fox Sports recently told an employee that no NFL season would be trouble for the network. "While there remains plenty of optimism the NFL will play — somehow, someway — networks are fixated on the league’s fall schedule given its dominant position as America’s most valuable television property," says The Washington Post's Ben Strauss. "They are invested, of course, in the planned returns of Major League Baseball, the NBA and other sports, but none carry the importance of the NFL, which accounted for 41 of the 50 top-rated telecasts of any kind in 2019. The lack of certainty has led to uncomfortable conversations among executives." ALSO: The rampant pessimism about the possibility of playing college football in the fall of 2020 has spiraled to fatalism (https://sports.yahoo.com/time-to-face-reality-no-one-is-playing-college-football-in-the-fall-170634809.html).

NFL and college football should forget about 2020 and begin their seasons in early 2021 (https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-07-20/column-college-football-nfl-forget-2020)

"Shut down NFL training camps before they open," says Bill Plaschke of football's collision course with the coronavirus pandemic. "Forget the idea of unpaid college athletes playing abbreviated schedules on campuses deemed unsafe for regular students. Follow the lead of California high schools and temporarily dim all Friday night lights. Start the seasons in January. Play the championships in the spring. Learn from the mistakes that will be made by the restarting sports. Understand that you are playing a very different, far more dangerous game. You’re not the NBA, which has covered itself in a bubble. You’re not baseball, which competes with most players standing a baseline apart. You’re tackle football. You’re a contact sport. You’re the exact opposite of coronavirus safety. You don’t do social distancing. You do antisocial colliding. Football is the only sport where there is actually a play called a 'slobberknocker.' One of its most admired phrases contains the virus-ominous words, 'smash' and 'mouth.' Many players spend entire games at a social distance of about six inches." Plaschke adds: "Football generates billions for NFL owners. Football rakes in as much as 85% of the entire athletic budget for Power 5 conference teams, who average more than $60 million in football revenue per season. Football generates priceless identity and community for countless high school teams. But if football doesn’t drop the swagger and humbly respect a COVID-19 virus that has killed more than 140,000 people in this country and is surging through Southern California, our national pastime could become a national disgrace."

I have three words for the NFL...

**** THE LEAGUE!

They're the WORST professional league in America...I HATE Football...and coming from a city that has NO team since 1995...it's easier to boycott football!

The pandemic is turning sports into video games (https://theweek.com/speedreads/927132/pandemic-accelerating-video-gamification-sports)

"How do you 'take me out with the crowd' when there's a global pandemic? By filling the stadium with people who can't get sick, says Jeva Lange. Fox Sports announced Thursday (https://twitter.com/FOXSportsPR/status/1286281819386765318) that its broadcasts of Major League Baseball games this season will utilize 'cutting-edge' technology to populate the stands with 'virtual fans.' The Sims-like creations will wear their teams colors and thin out if the game is a blowout. They'll cheer, boo, and — abominably — even do the wave. If Fox's intention was to make empty stadiums less eerie, they've definitely failed. But its choice represents an even bigger shift in professional sports: the creep toward becoming more and more like video games."

NBA games from the Orlando bubble will feature fans appearing virtually via 17-foot video boards surrounding the court (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nba-games-virtual-fans-michelob-1234715870/)

"Fans won’t be able to watch NBA games court-side thanks to the coronavirus, but the league hopes to fill their absence with everything from the sounds of sneaker squeaks to the sight of fans beaming on the sidelines on big screens thanks to partnerships with Anheuser-Busch InBev and Microsoft," reports Brian Steinberg. "More than 300 fans will be invited to appear live on 17-foot video boards surrounding the court at NBA games taking place in Orlando at Walt Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Their antics, sponsored by Anheuser’s Michelob and coordinated with technology from Microsoft, will no doubt turn up in some fashion on games televised by the NBA’s two main media partners, ESPN and WarnerMedia’s TNT."

The pandemic is turning sports into video games (https://theweek.com/speedreads/927132/pandemic-accelerating-video-gamification-sports)

"How do you 'take me out with the crowd' when there's a global pandemic? By filling the stadium with people who can't get sick, says Jeva Lange. Fox Sports announced Thursday (https://twitter.com/FOXSportsPR/status/1286281819386765318) that its broadcasts of Major League Baseball games this season will utilize 'cutting-edge' technology to populate the stands with 'virtual fans.' The Sims-like creations will wear their teams colors and thin out if the game is a blowout. They'll cheer, boo, and — abominably — even do the wave. If Fox's intention was to make empty stadiums less eerie, they've definitely failed. But its choice represents an even bigger shift in professional sports: the creep toward becoming more and more like video games."

NBA games from the Orlando bubble will feature fans appearing virtually via 17-foot video boards surrounding the court (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nba-games-virtual-fans-michelob-1234715870/)

"Fans won’t be able to watch NBA games court-side thanks to the coronavirus, but the league hopes to fill their absence with everything from the sounds of sneaker squeaks to the sight of fans beaming on the sidelines on big screens thanks to partnerships with Anheuser-Busch InBev and Microsoft," reports Brian Steinberg. "More than 300 fans will be invited to appear live on 17-foot video boards surrounding the court at NBA games taking place in Orlando at Walt Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Their antics, sponsored by Anheuser’s Michelob and coordinated with technology from Microsoft, will no doubt turn up in some fashion on games televised by the NBA’s two main media partners, ESPN and WarnerMedia’s TNT."


Sports Gamblers can care less:lol:

Fox Sports' first day broadcasting Major League Baseball with "virtual fans" was "extremely weird" (https://uproxx.com/sports/fox-virtual-fans-cubs-brewers-video/)

Announcers spent time explaining and demonstrating the use of virtual fans during today's Chicago Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers game at Wrigley Field.

Fox Sports' first day broadcasting Major League Baseball with "virtual fans" was "extremely weird" (https://uproxx.com/sports/fox-virtual-fans-cubs-brewers-video/)

Announcers spent time explaining and demonstrating the use of virtual fans during today's Chicago Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers game at Wrigley Field.

People can go to the beach and amusement park and disney world and waterpark and outdoor dining but not a game outside at limited capacity and social distance

Major League Baseball's season is thrown into chaos after 14 members of the Miami Marlins organization tested positive for coronavirus (https://sports.yahoo.com/four-days-into-mlb-season-covid-19-creates-chaos-and-a-lot-of-hard-questions-145025545.html)

The positive tests for two coaches and 12 players forced MLB to cancel two games: Miami Marlins vs. Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies. The Marlins reportedly decided via a group text to play Sunday (https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/miami-marlins-coronavirus-outbreak-phillies-mlb-season-20200727.html) vs. the Phillies after their starting pitcher for the afternoon and two other players had tested positive for COVID-19. As Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel notes, some of this chaos was inevitable. "Without a bubble — or perhaps even with it — positive tests and flare-ups and postponements were going to occur. Anyone who didn’t think they would was delusional," he writes. "Did it have to occur this quickly though? All of this is another warning sign for sports in general. MLB began and is now dealing with a crisis. The NBA is set to begin Thursday — albeit inside the strict confines of their compound in Orlando. NFL camps open this week. NHL players reported to their bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton over the weekend. Can any of it really work? Can baseball?"

Why sports is having trouble restarting in the United States: Americans didn't want to do the work (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/28/why-are-sports-trouble-us-because-we-didnt-do-work/)

"We were given a job to do if we wanted our games back, a very simple job, and we couldn’t do it," says Sally Jenkins, adding: "If there is one thing sports teaches, it’s that just wanting to win is not enough. You have to do the work, or you’re going to fail and maybe even embarrass yourself. You can’t cheat the grind, or you’ll lose every time. In this case, the work was easy. Wear a mask. Stay home unless it’s a real emergency. It’s not exactly running wind sprints up hills. Americans still didn’t do it. Itching to get out, pale and restless, lethal in our boredom and urge to self-gratify, we’ve been unable to sit the hell down and stay there. Instead we’ve club-crawled and dined until swollen on lemon pepper chicken rub and store-bought icing...You can’t blame the league commissioners of MLB, the NHL, the NBA and the NFL for trying to resume play. They’re trying to get people paid. Their interests are aligned with fans, sponsors, media and especially with networks desperate to salvage programming inventory and revenue. All of them want to return to normalcy as quickly and safely as possible at peril of economic catastrophe. Don’t we? But as a nation, we didn’t do the work to make it happen. We cheated the grind. Germans did the work. They’re watching soccer. South Koreans did the work. They’re watching baseball — in person. Italians didn’t at first but then did do the work, and now they’re planning a partial reopening of their stadiums in September, and the famed opera house La Scala just announced a fall schedule of concerts. But over here, we’re dealing with not one but two viruses. In addition to the coronavirus, we’ve got the pathogen of American smugness." ALSO: There's no good way to restart professional sports during a pandemic -- trying to do it anyway is stupid, selfish, and dangerous (https://newrepublic.com/article/158633/insane-restart-sports-america).

Major League Baseball's pandemic return has been profoundly weird, from creepy virtual fans to piped-in audio (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fien-print/critics-notebook-profound-oddness-televised-pandemic-baseball-1304818)

"If you've ever seen a Kevin Costner movie, you know that in a sporting world driven by adrenaline and brutality, baseball is poetic," says Daniel Fienberg. "It's a sensory experience. The crack of the bat. The impeccably manicured infield grass. The Doppler-effect undulations of a joyous crowd engaged in the Wave. The aroma of roasted peanuts. The melodic, escapist promise of 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame.' It's communal and it's immersive. What baseball has become, in a world in which we're still not prepared to allow even partial crowds back to stadiums, is an experiment in minimalism, bordering on nihilism. In short, baseball has gone from Field of Dreams to something more apocalyptic like The Postman or any movie theater showing Draft Day."

Report: Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences plan to scrap their college football seasons this fall due to coronavirus (https://twitter.com/dpshow/status/1292810469779136512)

Dan Patrick said on The Dan Patrick Show this morning "that the Big 10 and Pac 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow... The ACC and the Big 12 are on the fence.. And the SEC is trying to get teams to join them for a season." Patrick added that 12 of the 14 presidents from the Big Ten (https://twitter.com/dpshow/status/1292817293647413248) voted against playing this fall. ALSO: College football players #WeWantToPlay and #WeAreUnited hashtags to try and save the season while pushing to have say in major decisions (https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football-we-want-to-play-trevor-lawrence-093949049.html).

Big Ten changes its mind, announces plans to play college football this fall amid a pandemic (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2020/09/16/big-ten-football-announces-fall-season-start-october/5792689002/)

Under pressure from players, coaches and politicians like President Trump, the Big Ten conference announced it would kick off the season the weekend of Oct. 24, reversing an August decision to play in the fall. The league cited the imminent availability of rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 that can be administered on a daily basis.

NFL postpones its first game due to coronavirus (https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/09/30/titans-steelers-postponed/)

Sunday's game between the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers has been postponed after multiple Titans players and staffers tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week. The NFL says the postponement will allow for more testing and that the game will likely be played next Monday or Tuesday night.