2020 NFL Season

With the COVID-19 outbreak crippling the world everything somewhat related sports has been cancelled in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus and give the healthcare system a fighting chance.

The NBA, NHL and MLB have all cancelled their seasons. The NFL, being the only major sport out of season, has only one event during this time period, the draft. The league opted to continue with the draft but to have it moved from the traditional style and will instead go on as a televised program where the teams call in with their picks.

This means no first round picks putting on their new teams hats and walking up to shake commissioner Goodell's hand.

That is terrible in and of its self. Its terrible because so many kids that grew up dreaming of walking across that stage won't get the chance, but that is the world that we live in now.

Anyway, as messed up as all this is the ultimate threat has been tossed around as of late. Canceling the 2020 NFL Season. Owners do not know when the lockdowns and restrictions will last until, meaning they don't know if they will be able to start OTAs or even training camp on time.

We all hope that by the time training camp rolls around that life will be back to normal and frankly all of us hope that day comes much sooner than that. But we have to prepare as though that will not be the case because with the way this is trending it doesn't look as though as it's letting up anytime soon.

There has been one idea that I'm particularly interested in as toward playing the 2020 season. One owner proposed the idea of moving the whole league and television crews to a remote location that is COVID-19 free and playing the season there. He said that they would test people before they came into the facility keeping the virus from spreading within the football community. The season would be televised for people to watch and it would be normal football at the normal football times (That is without the teams stadiums or home crowds).

Probably the reason that I'm interested in this because is because it sounds so ridiculous. To ask grown men making millions of dollars a year to leave their families and move to a remote location so they can put on a television product just sounds insane. But then again it sounds a helluva lot better than no football.

I'm assuming that the leagues only other options would be to not play the season at all or to delay the season and start it at a later date when everything is safe.

Either NFL is in a somewhat easier position compared to the NBA, NHL and MLB because they can go off the precedent that those leagues set as toward returning to play.

Only time will tell. We will all just have to brave this new world together as one.

Be Safe. GO BIRDS.