How likely to see NFL

[bengals1969]

(07-07-2020, 03:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I think the issue is that "getting going with the season" is easy, but predicting what happens when some players and some teams are hit with more or more severe cases than others and teams become patchwork squads of NFL starters and replacement players is the big question mark.

What I'm saying is that starting the season isn't the issue, it's how teams and the league react if/when an unpredictable number of players begin to test positive.  Add in stuff like the Chiefs signing a single player to a 10 year and half a billion dollar deal and probably not wanting him to have any chance of suffering from a disease that might have long-term effects and you face a real likelihood that the NFL players who won't suffer if they miss a single year electing to sit things out if covid starts to spread among players.

Hell, I"m actually surprised the doom-and-gloom Bengals fans aren't already dreading Joe Burrow getting a nasty case of covid that has lingering effects and makes him the next Greg Cook.

If that's the criteria, there cannot be a season until a useful vaccine is produced.  Then the financial viability of the league has to be in question.
No revenues of any kind this season and maybe next.  Players not paid for one or two seasons.  Yet the rest of the economy is returning to work, has too, we have no choice.  That is a PR disaster for the league don't you think?

I found this from the CDC's website

• Cumulative hospitalization rates for COVID-19 in adults (18-64 years) at this time are higher than cumulative end-of-season hospitalization rates for influenza over each of the past 5 influenza seasons.
• For people 65 years and older, current cumulative COVID-19 hospitalization rates at this time are higher than cumulative end-of season hospitalization rates for influenza for 4 of the 5 past influenza seasons; lower only than rates observed during the 2017-18 season.
• For children (0-17 years), cumulative COVID-19 hospitalization rates are much lower than cumulative influenza hospitalization rates at comparable time points* during recent influenza seasons.
  

I'd think well conditioned and healthy football players would be closer to the 0-17 hospitalization rates than the 18-64. As you said each player and team will react differently, probably in such a way to make playing too hard to do during the 2020 season.