NFL'S Covid Count Continues To Rise. When is enough, enough?

If I was a player in the NFL I would definitely say keep playing. The famous players like Brady and Mahomes have decades-long careers but the average NFL play has a 4 or 5-year career, some even less. I'm a 22-26-year-old who has a 4 or 5-year window to capitalize on my high earning potential, I'm saying eff Covid lets go for it. A lot of these players are coming from very low-income upbringings where an NFL career can completely turn around their families' financial situation. There is no alternate source of income coming in for 99% if the players in the NFL.

To pit this as the billionaires being selfish is incredibly naive to the good things the benefits an NFL career brings to the player and the jobs it creates for all the others employed by the NFL. Yes the NFL owners are trying to make a profit but profit is what drives the economy forward.

energeticlotuseater wrote:

concerned human wrote:

The number of Covid + players continues to rise. When is enough, enough?

Man, you COVID doomers really want to snuff out anything anybody can possibly enjoy.

Even worse are the "sportswriters", like Charles Robinson, who seem to be upset that the sports they derive an income have not canceled. How can you go into sports journalism and want the season canceled? Possibly jealousy that those players are good enough while he is just a nerd on the sidelines.

concerned human wrote:

You wont get an answer wrote:

Not a single case of on field transmission yet despite several players playing with it and not knowing until the following Mondays. Keep trying.

Not sure that I'm buying it. These guys aren't 6 inches apart much less 6 feet, and they are breathing heavily. They then stand close to each other along with their staff on the sidelines and in the locker rooms with no masks on. Something doesn't add up. I understand that they are young and healthy and probably won't even be hospitalized, but they are celebrities with families who are around a lot of other people. They aren't put in a bubble like the MLB players were. 1 in 1000 +, not buying that either. My guess is that the real #s are being hid because so much money is at stake for so many people.

That's so nice of you to think of the players' families, but I think they're all adults who can think and weigh the costs/benefits for themselves. They don't need you to remind them they have families. Plus, I think the multimillionaires can find a way to quarantine if needed.

This might be your most asinine, off-the-rails post yet. And that’s saying something. NFL players were offered an opt-out salary where they could completely skip the season and still collect a substantial paycheck - far far more than you or I would make doing our jobs full time, and far far far more than those who were/are unable to work due to shutdowns. Yet 99% of them chose to play. So if you’re going to call the owners greedy, you better lump the players in there too. Or maybe, just maybe, they’ve made the personal choice that life can continue and they don’t need to stop doing what they love to appease vocal, outspoken, irrational loonies like yourself.

concerned human wrote:

The number of Covid + players continues to rise. When is enough, enough?

And they are all perfectly fine

briswiss wrote:

concerned human wrote:

The number of Covid + players continues to rise. When is enough, enough?

And they are all perfectly fine

We certainly would have heard --- over and over again -- if any weren't fine

Precious Roy wrote:

There is no point in putting any additional risk on these players who already are putting their bodies on the line week in week out. We have had seasons lost and cut short due to lock outs and strikes and the NFL survived and made tons of money. We can lose a season for COVID 19 and come back strong when a vaccine is available.

Yes there is a reason. The players themselves want the money. The average NFL guy has a very short career. If I told you, you have five years in your life that you will make$500,000 a year and the rest you will make $25 an hour, you can bet I'd want to play as well. One year of work is the equivalent of 10 for them. To see that cancelled, because they might get Covid and if they do get they have a roughly 1/10,000 chance of dying from it is kind of crazy right?

I love how we now it's our right to tell everyone else how to live - particularly now that there is a vaccine on the horizon. If you want to go out and risk it, that's on you. If you are worried, stay home for 4 months until you can get vaccinated.

"I'm saying eff Covid lets go for it."

That's not the right attitude. Playing and protecting everyone (NFL games) is the right choice. The economy, and us as sports fans need it and it's do able because the NFL is doing their job in protecting everybody.

Millions and millions go out (wearing masks) and buy food, beer, chips, ice, etc, in addition to being entertained.

Go for it but don't say "FXXX Covid"!

Bad idea.

Preach rojo, preach.

Let me think about this:

-men in their athletic prime(average age in the NFL is around 25 years old, which the survival rate for that age group in the general population is over 99+%) and are in good health(not only that but they have the best medical care money can buy).

-a handful have tested positive for covid(remember the test is super sensitive and has a very high rate of false positives).

-none of the active NFL players have been greatly affected nor died by covid.

-lastly, for their demographics, statistically speaking they are much more likely to be hospitalized by some incident at a night club or just driving to work.

proud to be a American wrote:

Let me think about this:

-men in their athletic prime(average age in the NFL is around 25 years old, which the survival rate for that age group in the general population is over 99+%) and are in good health(not only that but they have the best medical care money can buy).

-a handful have tested positive for covid(remember the test is super sensitive and has a very high rate of false positives).

-none of the active NFL players have been greatly affected nor died by covid.

-lastly, for their demographics, statistically speaking they are much more likely to be hospitalized by some incident at a night club or just driving to work.

Umm, like kids attending school in person?? Well, except, those kids eventually have to go home. At home, there are siblings. There are parents. There are Grandparents. Now can you start to see?

30:45X-C1978 wrote:

"I'm saying eff Covid lets go for it."

That's not the right attitude. Playing and protecting everyone (NFL games) is the right choice. The economy, and us as sports fans need it and it's do able because the NFL is doing their job in protecting everybody.

Millions and millions go out (wearing masks) and buy food, beer, chips, ice, etc, in addition to being entertained.

Go for it but don't say "FXXX Covid"!

Bad idea.

Well, I never said that