There’s no asterisk on the NFL’s 2020 regular-season schedule, but everyone knows it’s the there.
The NFL released the schedule to great fanfare on Thursday night. Like the draft, the schedule release seems to grow each year. This year NFL Network had a three-hour special on the schedule.
The games and dates are written in pencil this year, due to coronavirus restrictions. While NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in a memo urged teams to not comment on hypotheticals regarding the 2020 season, the uncertainty isn’t going away.
For now all the NFL can do is release a schedule that looks fairly normal and hope it starts as planned on Sept.