72 players in the NFL test positive for Covid 19

[Panthera onca]

5 minutes ago, Asurfaholic said:

At basically 100% survival rate it’s still more likely one of them dies in a crash on the way to practice than of Covid. Not a bit concerning.Start the damn season already.

There will be an NFL season, all the naysayers notwithstanding. College not so much.

[kungfoodude]

5 hours ago, t96 said:

If they’re getting tested often and are in a bubble with strict rules none of the blood, sweat and tears shared during the games will matter one bit.

Treat COVID like any injury or sickness. Tough sh*t gotta deal with it. Every team and player is in the same boat it’s not unfair. Is it unfair for a team when their star QB or whatever gets injured? No it’s just reality.

There won’t be any fans at the NBA or NHL games coming up. 

If they abide by the rules it should work out. The problem then becomes when/if people do not abide by the rules. That's pretty much the country we are in right now.

 

[Ja Rhule]

Wonder if Eric Reid got tested 10 times already for COVID

[4Corners]

1 hour ago, Asurfaholic said:

At basically 100% survival rate it’s still more likely one of them dies in a crash on the way to practice than of Covid. Not a bit concerning.Start the damn season already.

I’m at the point now where I’m almost pulling for no football just because I know ppl like u will be miserable. 

[RumHam]

Theres 750 players. Literally 10% and one may show symptoms and no one will die. #starttheseason

[Asurfaholic]

3 hours ago, 4Corners said:

I’m at the point now where I’m almost pulling for no football just because I know ppl like u will be miserable. 

Figures you’d stick your useless head into this topic just to find a way to make a stupid comment / personal attack on me. For as rarely as I post here you seem to really pay attention to me and my opinions. Would you ever sit down and have a beer and bullshit back and forth with me? Or are you so convinced your brand of politics is right that you couldn’t do such a thing?

[45catfan]

14 hours ago, Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D. said:

The problem with this is that research hasn't shown people are developing immunity following exposure like normal viruses.

Long-term immunity, no...short-term, yes.  Anyway, when this was "said" to be happening with these college players, not a whole lot evidence was out there yet about immunity duration.

[45catfan]

13 hours ago, cardiackat88. said:

A person can get COVID twice....

Yep, no different than a cold and the seasonal flu.  Who gets a cold or flu once and never gets it again?  How often does people catch either of those twice in a year? Why should this any different?  The best I can tell sifting though the information is the short-term immunity lasts only a few months.  If you are talking about the instances where people recover and take follow up tests and pop positive, there is evidence the test is picking up the trace amounts still in the system of the recovering person.  You don't shed the virus like turning off a light switch.  

[Devil Doc]

There is no guarantee you will get the Virus being exposed to it. It is around 10% of a population that does. There is literally Millions of people working in, around, and directly with Covid, that make 100x less than even the lowest coach, player, staff, ref, etc. There is precautions to play and still have a season. If they cancel the season, you do NOT get paid, just like other people that lost jobs or were furloughed. I get NFL players are concerned about health etc, yet complain they may not get paid if the season is canceled. You cannot have it both ways. 

[mrcompletely11]

There is nothing on the google about this but how do you guys think a draft would work with a shortened season or not one at all?  I would have thought someone would have written about this by now.

 

edit- my bad just found this https://sports.yahoo.com/what-happens-to-2021-draft-order-if-nfl-season-is-cancelled-here-are-3-possible-scenarios-143831302.html

 

In every scenario that is listed that Panthers seemed screwed in all of them. 

[45catfan]

5 minutes ago, Devil Doc said:

There is no guarantee you will get the Virus being exposed to it. It is around 10% of a population that does. There is literally Millions of people working in, around, and directly with Covid, that make 100x less than even the lowest coach, player, staff, ref, etc. There is precautions to play and still have a season. If they cancel the season, you do NOT get paid, just like other people that lost jobs or were furloughed. I get NFL players are concerned about health etc, yet complain they may not get paid if the season is canceled. You cannot have it both ways. 

Yep, plain and simple.  Professional athletes THINK they are in a different category than the rest of working America, but they are not.  No play, no pay.  The amount of grown men whining will be epic if this occurs.

[4Corners]

8 hours ago, Asurfaholic said:

Figures you’d stick your useless head into this topic just to find a way to make a stupid comment / personal attack on me. For as rarely as I post here you seem to really pay attention to me and my opinions. Would you ever sit down and have a beer and bullshit back and forth with me? Or are you so convinced your brand of politics is right that you couldn’t do such a thing?

You hittin on me dude? Not interested. 
 

there will be no NFL this year. 

[4Corners]

31 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Yep, plain and simple.  Professional athletes THINK they are in a different category than the rest of working America, but they are not.  No play, no pay.  The amount of grown men whining will be epic if this occurs.

They 110% are in a different working category (and tax bracket) than you or I. Apples and oranges dude.  Your post really is trying to sneak around being Racist. 

[45catfan]

10 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

They 110% are in a different working category (and tax bracket) than you or I. Apples and oranges dude.  Your post really is trying to sneak around being Racist. 

Dude, there is one huge racist on this board and I think you know who it is.  No, a job is a job, period.  If the NFL wants to supplement hazard pay..fine, but they can't  just not work and get their pay checks.  Nobody else can do that.