The Ravens are planning for the financial ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic affecting the NFL season.
Ravens President Dick Cass said the Ravens have made “alternative budgets” for a “very uncertain future.” Those alternatives include playing the season as scheduled but in empty stadiums, thus foregoing all ticket revenue, and for a shortened season. Cass said those alternatives do not include any full-time employees losing their jobs.
“We’re not laying anyone off,” Cass vowed, via the Baltimore Sun.
Part-time employees who work only on game days, however, may lose that income. Cass said the Ravens are trying their best to plan for every possibility.
“Those are the uncertainties we’re dealing with,” he said. “But every business, whether it’s a sports business or a non-sports business, is dealing with the same thing. I mean, budgets are being changed every day. Revenue estimates are being changed every day, because it’ll be a very different world for us if we cannot have fans.”
These are the possibilities the NFL needs to plan for, with four months to go before the season is supposed to start.