07-28-2020, 03:02 PM
(07-28-2020, 12:30 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: 1.) The Premier League returned in late June. They were able to finish the season in about 1 month's time.
2.) The Premier has only 20 teams. (The NFL has 32)
3.) Their roster size is 25 players. (The NFL's is 55 active + 10 practice squad)
4.) The NFL's coaching and training staff's dwarf those of the Premier League.
5.) England has 55k square miles to travel. The US has 3.79 million miles to travel.
They are just two completely different animals. By using rough math I think you can come to a reasonable estimate that the NFL is 5 times the size of the Premier League in number of personnel.
When you couple this with the travel, and the fact that so many of our cities have significantly different population densities, you really are attempting something completely different.
I'll be anxious to see what happens with the Premeir League when they start back in the fall. Will they be able to meet their new opening date? I have a feeling they just powered through the tail end of their season just because it was so close to it's conclusion.
It wasn't just the EPL that returned. The Championship (24 teams) returned and League 1 and 2 and the National League (think AAA, AA, A+ and A level in baseball) are in play-offs.
There is zero talk of the 2020/21 season being delayed - other than for the need for an off-season and in the cases of those lower league teams sort out the financial implications of playing behind closed doors/reduced capacities.
As for completing it because it was the tail end of the season - other sports have started new seasons. Cricket has just completed an international test series that started after lockdown and domestic cricket has been through its version of training camp and is in the midst of it's pre-season matches without any issues.
