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lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i'm mike lupica new york daily news mlb dot com i'm mitch album of the

detroit free press and i am bob Album of the Detroit Free Press.

And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

We welcome you to the Thursday morning edition, Thursday edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.

And gentlemen, the news is the news.

The news is that Atlanta, the latest hotspot, the Atlanta Falcons have had to shut down

their facility due to the announcement of four more positives, perhaps putting their Sunday night,

a Sunday game at Minnesota in jeopardy, and it just doesn't end. It doesn't end here. It doesn't

end in college. This NFL season has

become what? You tell me, fill in the blank, not a farce, but I don't know what.

Fill in the blank is a pretty good explanation of because there's a lot of blanks and there's

a lot of games that aren't going to run on schedule.

And at some point, this is going to clog up the pipes.

You know, when they started at the beginning of the year, they were able to find buy weeks

or able to push something into December.

But just like stuffing dirt under the carpet, at some point,

you end up with a big lump.

And if this continues to happen and games continue to be rescheduled, you're going to get

a backup in December that's going to mess things up.

Your playoffs are going to get messed up.

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