Sometimes I think the posts here are from people who have never owned a business or have any idea where money comes from. And no it's not from the government.
Businesses, including the NFL, are not things you just turn off and on like a light switch. The costs of turning them off are enormous, and often not survivable. Or at least not survivable in its current form. The owners of businesses are in it to make money and if they can't......good bye business.
You think the owners are going to pay players for not playing? You think players making $10mil a year, even up to $30 mil, are just going to go "oh well" and give up all those millions in exchange for sitting home, nice and safe, and playing Madden Football instead? The guys at the lower end of the scale have it perhaps even worse because they're not making the big bucks. You think vendors who make their living off of selling NFL products can go an entire year without revenue and survive? Who do you think creates jobs and gives people employment? The NFL generates thousands upon thousands of jobs outside of its basic football operations. It the NFL doesn't play, most of those jobs will be lost.
Anymore people seem to think the government can just print more money and send it to them to make them feel safe. Nope. And that's about over.... everywhere..... as governments realize that they can't substitute for an economy by merely printing money. Digital or otherwise.
The issue is to learn ways to mitigate the exposure to the virus, and to lessen its effects. Balance risk with reward. The risk, in some form, will remain. It can never be to simply close everything down until some arbitrary target has been reached to re-open. And I got news for you; there will never be universal agreement on what those targets should be. Or even if the best brains get it right.
Even a vaccine is not the answer because unless there is an imposed demand.... even a law..... that all be vaccinated then there will be many who choose not to. And I doubt such a law or demand would pass muster in the courts. All this would do is join the already long running debates about the efficacy as well as the Constitutionality of forced immunizations.
More than 50% of all deaths have been in nursing homes alone, and nursing homes account for a dinky part of the overall population. Of that remaining 50% spread over the largest part of the population, almost all other deaths except for a fraction of a fraction of a percent are from people who had serious underlying health conditions.
Let the players play who want to play. And let the fans go who want to go. Let those who are elderly and/or have serious health conditions make wise choices. And let those who fear going to games, not go. But they shouldn't get their money back. Not going will be their decision. But the players who fear will not be paid and they shouldn't be. There will be more then enough players to have a very good season either way.
The NFL season will be played provided they don't get into the stupid kind of bruhaha that MLB has found itself in with the Players Association, or unless the US government orders it closed..... and that won't happen..... at least not this season.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2020 02:55AM by RockRam.