Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 170281)

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In related news ......

8 people in the Titans organization (3 players and 5 team personnel members) received positive tests.



Titans Suspend Activities After Positive Covid-19 Tests

(By Ben Shpigel)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/s...ronavirus.html


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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 170287)

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Perhaps the best-case scenario would be if the upcoming game between the Titans and the Steelers is postponed, and made up in later in the season ...... but they have different Bye weeks, so it might be difficult to fit it in. Plus, the Vikings-Texans game also includes 2 teams which have different Bye weeks.


Unless those games are played this week, it may force the league to push the entire season back for one week for everybody ...... unlike baseball, basketball, and hockey, football cannot be played 3 or 4 times in the same week by a team, so the prospect of any team(s) "shutting down" for any period of time is more alarming/distressing.


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Originally Posted by njcoltfan (Post 170283)

Hopefully this isn’t the start of something bigger.

Originally Posted by Chromeburn (Post 170290)

From what I have been reading, we might face another surge. I think that it’s happening in other parts of the world ...... it might spread to here.

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 170297)

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In professional sports, they essentially "bubble" teams' players and coaches, and have access to constant testing (not available to the majority of other American citizens.)

I'm not necessarily saying that it will all work out well for the NFL this season, but they do have an advantage over the majority of other factions/blocs/groups in society in terms of controlling and minimizing the spread of the disease.

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Originally Posted by Chromeburn (Post 170299)

True, but I feel that the NFL is the hardest to do this with because teams still have to travel, the sheer amount of people involved, and the fact that they interact with each other so closely. It's easier with sports that have fewer players.

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 170364)

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Who Are the 3 Titans Who Tested Positive for COVID-19 ???

(By Erik Bacharach)

https://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...ey/3579461001/


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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 170306)

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Agreed.

As I stated in a previous post, football is unique in that you can only play it one time per week ...... there are no doubleheaders, no playing 3 or 4 times a week, etc.

In fact, even before this whole COVID crisis, college football teams in recent years have often had a hard time making up games when there were torrential storms/hurricanes. Sometimes they would substitute a game with a I-AA team in place of the canceled game, and sometimes they would just cancel it altogether and finish the season with 11 regular-season games (as opposed to 12.)


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