2020 NFL Season

[96583UP]

So is this season happening

it's happening

at least for 1 week

when i hear those swweeet sweet words, 'are you ready for some footbawl?!?' my response will be: 'oh yes, yes. I am ready.'

[Strat]

Sans fans? Sans bubble?

NHL made it work. Perhaps NFL should commit to a few host cities for the season. I dont know.

Tha tis probably unrealistic considering how long the season is.

Whatever. Fuck Kirk Cousins

[96583UP]

Sans fans? Sans bubble?

NHL made it work. Perhaps NFL should commit to a few host cities for the season. I dont know.

Tha tis probably unrealistic considering how long the season is.

Whatever. Fuck Kirk Cousins

roger that, read you loud and clear

[E.H. Ruddock]

[Simple Torture]

I think they're going to cancel the first two weeks of games (to let any players that test positive during training camp a chance to get it out of their system), then shift the games from weeks 1 and 2 to weeks 3 and 4 (there are no divisional matchups or bye weeks scheduled for 3+4, so you axe those and it doesn't affect division races much).

The first pro athlete in America to die will be an NFL player about a week before Thanksgiving. There will be a lot of hemming and hawing about whether games should be played on the holiday weekend, but they'll decide that the "country needs it to heal" and they'll go forward with business as usual.

Let's see if either of those predictions hit.

[E.H. Ruddock]

You sure do love predicting things.

[Simple Torture]

I knew you were going to post that.

[Strat]

He's probably spot on though.

[knee tunes]

Nostril Torture

[epilogue]

KC released a Covid prep statement saying Arrowhead would be limited to something like 22% capacity and fans would be assigned seats in pods that are distanced. Max 6 people per pod. Opening sales of pods to season ticket holders first. Any leftover pods would then be open to the public/general sale. They are currently only selling these for the first three home games.

So it would appear that at least one team thinks it'll have fans in the stands.

Also, great predictions, ST.

[Strat]

Vikings info:

Mike Zimmer isn’t a fan of the NFL having no uniform policy regarding the number of fans allowed into stadiums on game day.
“I think there are some unfair things going on around it as far as some teams can have fans and some teams can’t,” the Vikings coach said Friday. “So I think there is a competitive disadvantage in some of those areas.”

Zimmer said establishing home-field advantage at U.S. Bank Stadium during the coronavirus pandemic “is going to be hard because … it looks like we’re not going to have any fans in there early, which really stinks because we have unbelievable fans. They make that place rocking every Sunday.”

The Vikings are operating under current state restrictions prohibiting crowds larger than 250 people at indoor events, which, Zimmer said, “doesn’t make it financially possible to invite 250 people when it costs that much money to open up the stadium.”

The Packers won’t object if that doesn’t change by the time they arrive for the Sept. 13 season opener. As Zimmer pointed out, “The concentration is so much harder [for the visiting team] when you got 66,000 crazy Vikings fans who are doing the Skol chant.”

The Vikings are in talks with state officials to see if they can safely get fans into the stadium, with maximum capacity of about 20%. The Vikings’ NFC North rivals — the Packers, Bears and Lions — have announced no fans will be allowed in their stadiums for at least the first two home games or longer. Other teams, like the Chiefs and Colts (the Vikings’ Week 2 opponent), have said they would limit attendance to around 20-25% capacity.

The Vikings will practice at U.S. Bank Stadium next Friday. Zimmer said they’ll scrimmage for two quarters while creating the same atmosphere players will see on game day.

“We’ll have the scoreboard going and the lights and all the stuff, and the crowd noise that they’ll hear during the game,” he said. “Try to get them as used to it as they possibly can so the first day it’s not a shock.”

And the rules on that crowd noise will be?

“It’s decibels between 80 and 90,” Zimmer said. “It just plays the same noise the entire time for both home and away. You don’t really get to do any Skol chants or anything like that. It’s going to be very stagnant. Just background noise.

“Which makes a lot of sense, right? I’ll probably get in trouble for saying that.”

[96583UP]

i do think 'zero' fans in outdoor stadiums is unnecessary

you could def have like 1 family per every 10 rows and still be super safe

until everyone goes to the bathroom at the same time

and i wonder what concessions would be open

to service 12 customers

maybe they let you bring a cooler

BYO football

that would be dope

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i do think 'zero' fans in outdoor stadiums is unnecessary

you could def have like 1 family per every 10 rows and still be super safe

until everyone goes to the bathroom at the same time

and i wonder what concessions would be open

to service 12 customers

maybe they let you bring a cooler

BYO football

that would be dope

i agree

[96583UP]

i do think 'zero' fans in outdoor stadiums is unnecessary

you could def have like 1 family per every 10 rows and still be super safe

until everyone goes to the bathroom at the same time

and i wonder what concessions would be open

to service 12 customers

maybe they let you bring a cooler

BYO football

that would be dope

i agree

about which part, the bathrooms?

i agree

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i do think 'zero' fans in outdoor stadiums is unnecessary

you could def have like 1 family per every 10 rows and still be super safe

until everyone goes to the bathroom at the same time

and i wonder what concessions would be open

to service 12 customers

maybe they let you bring a cooler

BYO football

that would be dope

i agree

about which part, the bathrooms?

i agree

servicing 12 customers

[96583UP]

i wonder what the superbowl halftime show will be like this year

without a crowd of extras on the field

who will shakira show her vagina to

[Biff Pocoroba]

Prediction: There will be at least one game canceled/postponed due to player protest or civil unrest.

[Simple Torture]

Prediction: There will be at least one game canceled/postponed due to player protest or civil unrest.

I'm not so bullish on this, mostly because of how the NFL contract structure works. Players without a lot of guaranteed money might be more skittish to do something like, say, MLB players.

[96583UP]

Prediction: In the interest of player safety, overtime will be replaced with a soccer-style shootout, whereby each NFL team selects 5 players to kick field goals, subject to 1 pass-rusher from the opposite team counting 3-Mississippi, until even-ups are complete and one team has a +1 advantage

[Electromatic]

Leonard Fournette Released.