Not long ago, the NFL was carrying on with its day-to-day business while MLB was entrenched in a frustrating labor dispute that was becoming increasingly bitter and public. Now, those roles are almost entirely reversed.
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As baseball is gearing up to play and find some normalcy, the NFL is steadily approaching a potentially ugly standoff between players and the league. As discussed yesterday, the players want the league to establish clear COVID-19 protocols before they agree to show up to training camps, which are slated to start this week, and they’re becoming quite vocal in order to put more pressure on the NFL.
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We’re all hoping for the best so that we can have our football Sundays this fall but, unfortunately, the optimism has its limits at this point. Our good pal Jason La Canfora says things are “almost certain to get messier before it gets sorted out.”
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There hasn’t really been a whole lot of pressure on the NFL up until this point, but with the schedule creeping up, we might soon see the gloves come off like we did with MLB and the MLBPA.
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JLC believes there will eventually be football this year (there’s too much money at stake to lose an entire season) but it may be a bumpy, extended road to get to that point. Luckily, we’ll probably have other sports to keep us busy while the NFL sorts out its own mess, which isn’t a luxury that came with baseball’s nightmare.
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Still, I don’t even want to think about how bad Sunday Scaries will be in the fall if there’s no NFL/RedZone/fantasy football to burn the day away. Somebody hold me.
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