NFL, NFLPA reach agreement on team travel protocol for training camp and preseason

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The league and the union have plenty of issues to resolve before camp starts. They have one fewer area of disagreement.

The NFL and NFL Players Association have reached an agreement regarding team travel protocols for 2020 training camp and preseason. The document implies strongly that there will be a preseason; however, it does not expressly state that preseason games will be played. (Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the length of the preseason is still being discussed.)

The sections of the detailed protocols focus on the rules for traveling by plane and bus, PPE use, disinfection of hotel rooms, airlines, buses, equipment, and luggage, rules for hotel employees and bus drivers, food service standards, and physical distancing requirements. The protocols also allow for discipline to be imposed in the event that club employees knowingly and materially fail to follow the protocols.

Highlights include mandatory masks for all members of the traveling party, limitations on the size of the traveling party (no more than 110 non-players), and no buffets.

The eight-page document illustrates how unusual the 2020 season will be, and travel is just one aspect of it.

6 responses to “NFL, NFLPA reach agreement on team travel protocol for training camp and preseason

  1. I’m sure the cancel football so we didn’t kill grandma will be out in full force with this one.
    Just remember: 6,837,572 (93%) Recovered / Discharged.

    There were 213,778 ‘positive’ ‘cases’ on July 3rd, the highest single day ever, if the average death rate is still the same and recovery ratio still the same by July 17th. Game on.

    I say ‘positive’ ‘cases’ cause who knows if this numbers are legit.
    The Government lied?? That never happens!

  2. Fun fact: The CDV now lumps positive antibodies tests in with positive virus cases. Some people would call that inflating the numbers but I call it good old fashioned governin’

  3. I see the deniers are out in full force. The best way to have NFL football is to follow the oft repeated but seldom followed CDC guidelines (wash hands, social distance and wear a damn mask). We are 4% of the world’s population with 33% of the COVID caseload. I am beginning to think we just don’t deserve it.

  4. leeeeroyjenkins says:
    July 7, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    Fun fact: The CDV now lumps positive antibodies tests in with positive virus cases. Some people would call that inflating the numbers but I call it good old fashioned governin’

    ———————————————————-
    What organization is the ‘CDV’?

  5. Frazier28/7 says:
    July 7, 2020 at 7:04 pm
    I’m sure the cancel football so we didn’t kill grandma will be out in full force with this one.
    Just remember: 6,837,572 (93%) Recovered / Discharged.

    There were 213,778 ‘positive’ ‘cases’ on July 3rd, the highest single day ever, if the average death rate is still the same and recovery ratio still the same by July 17th. Game on.

    I say ‘positive’ ‘cases’ cause who knows if this numbers are legit.
    The Government lied?? That never happens!
    ———————————————-

    source: world meters

    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    3,095,374

    CLOSED CASES
    1,484,893
    Cases which had an outcome:
    1,350,967 (91%)
    Recovered / Discharged

    133,926 (9%)
    Deaths

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