Strap In Tight, Homies

On the one hand, we have this:

Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, said Thursday night that the NFL hopes to plow a road for the entire country as it deals with the pandemic.

"I think this is important not just for the NFL or for professional sports -- not even for sports at all levels," Sills said at a virtual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. "I think what we are trying to do -- which is to find a way to mitigate risk and to coexist with this virus -- this is really key information for schools, for businesses, for all segments of society. I think we have a unique opportunity but also a responsibility to use the platform and resources of the NFL to really study and learn and to take that knowledge and apply it for the benefit of the other segments of the society. That is what we plan to do."

And on the other hand, we have this:

So I really don't know what to expect.  If I were a betting man, I'd bet that there won't even be an NFL season.  I mean, look what's happened to colleges that tried to start their football season:

Some of those were college athletes. Through Wednesday, at least 426  had tested positive for the coronavirus among roughly 50 Division I programs, but the number of cases is likely much higher. About half of American universities either did not respond to requests for testing results from The New York Times, or declined to provide numbers, under the auspices of protecting the privacy of student-athletes. 

But of course, the NFL is a billion-dollar business, capable of devoting many more resources to the safety of their players than colleges can.  For example, I especially like this part of the NFL's plan for dealing with the virus:

If there is a fear of in-game exposure, the NFL will make use of radio-frequency identification tracking devices embedded in each player's shoulder pads to determine whom that player was within 6 feet of during the game.

 It's great that the NFL plans to use technology to determine that a given player came within 6 feet of LITERALLY EVERY OTHER PLAYER AND COACH on his own team during the course of the game, and HALF of the players on the other team.

Obviously, if there's no NFL season, then there's no fantasy season.  And just as obviously, if the NFL cancels it's season, it's not going to happen until the last minute.  So I've actually scheduled our draft for Wednesday, September 9 at 7:30 PM Central time.  I haven't made any other changes to the league yet, but I STRONGLY recommend that we add 3 IR slots to our rosters.  In the event that there actually is a season, players will get sick, and we will probably want to have the IR slots available when they do.

So.  Uh.  Start your engines?  I guess?