Is the NFL in Corona Denial?
The Lead
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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Just about every professional sports league has come to a grinding halt in recent weeks, with one notable exception: the NFL. As other leagues have shut down because of COVID-19, the NFL has allowed new player signings, plans to hold the NFL draft as planned in late April, and has said that its season will start on time in September. The Athletic’s Lindsay Jones joins us to talk about how the NFL’s business-as-usual approach has been rubbing some people the wrong way, but how it might also be what fans and the league need right now.
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| 0:00.0 | During the coronavirus pandemic, just about every league in pro sports has come to a screeching |
| 0:11.6 | halt, with one notable exception. |
| 0:14.8 | The NFL is still conducting business in this national emergency. |
| 0:19.3 | These are Tom Brady officially a member of the Bucket Niers. |
| 0:23.0 | Make sure you check on your Patriots, friends and family out there because they are probably |
| 0:27.2 | suffering now that this is officially up. |
| 0:29.2 | They're not delaying anything. |
| 0:31.0 | They're going to have the stage to themselves, April 23, 24, 25. |
| 0:36.6 | Nothing else in the sports world is going on. |
| 0:39.8 | Today, the athletics Lindsey Jones joins us to talk about how the NFL's business's |
| 0:44.1 | usual approach has been rubbing some people the wrong way. |
| 0:47.3 | We're proceeding with businesses normal when the reality is for pretty much everybody in |
| 0:53.2 | this country right now and a lot of people around the world is that very little is normal. |
| 0:57.6 | And how that approach might also be just what fans and the league need right now. |
| 1:01.9 | Damn, I want that draft to be at the end of April. |
| 1:04.6 | I do. |
| 1:08.2 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm under Skelto. |
| 1:10.9 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:12.5 | It's Friday, April 3, and this is the lead. |
| 1:15.4 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:21.6 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment the medical staff were passing |
| 1:25.6 | the failures of the past don't matter because we've got this done. |
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