So, I think the NFL will have some semblance of a season. I don’t really think that’s in question. Will they finish whatever it is they start, is probably a larger question, IMO. But there’s too much money involved for them not to try. I do think they’ll have to expand rosters. Players will test positive, they will have a minimum two week out time.
The NFL’s season I think does hinge on how MLB does.
I think the NBA is an outlier among the three. Less moving pieces is always going to be an advantage here. I think the league is allowing 30 people per team in the bubble, which is three hotels at Disneyworld. The courts are physically smaller and indoors. From photos I’ve seen, they’re literally able to build the team’s own home floor inside the ballrooms on this bubble/campus.
That would be physically impossible for both NFL and MLB. Even if they played in specific locations, which MLB proposed and was rejected by the MLBPA, they’d have to have a much larger “bubble.” What would be the minimum number of people for a team’s NFL bubble? 100?
Also a major difference is NBA is finishing a season and not try to start a whole new one. They’ve only invited 22 teams to complete the season. By my math that’s probably around 800 people in the bubble. With football we’d be talking like 3,500-4,000 minimum?
College athletics? I don’t know how the hell they happen.