The NFL's Covid Chaos
The Lead
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic threw the NFL into a bit chaos this week, when an outbreak on the Baltimore Ravens caused their Thanksgiving Day game against the Steelers to be rescheduled multiple times, and eventually played the following Wednesday (with a severely depleted Ravens squad). The Athletic’s Lindsay Jones joins us to talk about one of the stranger games in NFL history, how the Ravens held up in these challenging circumstances, and what the game revealed about the league’s approach to dealing with the coronavirus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.0 | The pandemic threw the NFL into a bit of chaos this week. |
| 0:17.0 | The NFL has postponed the Raven Steelers game that was supposed to be tomorrow night to Wednesday night. |
| 0:23.0 | This is the third postponement. |
| 0:25.0 | So a game that was supposed to be played on Thanksgiving night now will be played six, seven days later in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:31.0 | Today, the athletics Lindsey Jones on one of the strangest games in NFL history and what it revealed about the league's approach to the coronavirus. |
| 0:40.0 | So the NFL believes that if they keep going with these protocols, that it's going to work, that they're going to be able to get to the postseason. |
| 0:47.0 | They're going to be able to get through the playoffs and get to the Super Bowl on February 7th, which is their ultimate goal. |
| 0:56.0 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavisa Davidson. |
| 0:59.0 | And I'm under Skelto. It's Friday, December 4th, and this is Dolby. |
| 1:04.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:08.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the love of the NFL. |
| 1:12.0 | The fact that you're the past on the matter because you got this. |
| 1:18.0 | This isn't a story here. The interview the athlete. |
| 1:22.0 | It stays with you. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, so Lindsey, this week we saw something that we haven't seen since 1948. |
| 1:33.0 | An NFL game being played on a Wednesday. |
| 1:36.0 | Can you just walk us through how this happened and how things unfolded for the Ravens in the last two weeks? |
| 1:42.0 | This game was originally scheduled to be played on Thanksgiving night. |
| 1:46.0 | It was the prime time game, really the marquee matchup of Thanksgiving between the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens. |
| 1:53.0 | So right after the Ravens previous game, they received multiple positive tests from players, guys who had played in the game before. |
| 2:01.0 | Tonight the Ravens reported another outbreak of the coronavirus positive tests among both players and staff members. |
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