With months to prepare for the NFL season, the rubber of policy is about to meet the road of reality when it comes to COVID-19. No league wants their players or personnel to get sick, but the it would appear that the model of operation the NFL has chosen is failing in real time.
For months, sports fans heard different plans about how sports were going to go about restarting. The NFL was in the enviable position of not having to deal with the COVID-19 landscape right away which should have given them plenty of opportunity to come up with a workable plan.