From what I have heard, there is far too much money involved with the NFL to cancel the season. The league is trying as hard as it can to get the Super Bowl played on 2/7, but delaying it a few weeks isn’t out of the question. It’s not as if the Daytona 500 can’t be moved from 2/14 if they have to play the Super Bowl that day (and no, the NFL is not worried about the guys who would miss the game because their girlfriends demanded to be taken out for dinner that night).
Early in the baseball season, sportswriters and pundits were hyping positive test results and lambasting MLB for thinking it could get its schedule played. They look pretty dumb right now.
The NFL with its much greater contact is a different situation of course. I suspect they’ll cobble together a season anyway.
We may never really find out, but I’ve wondered, from the start, how likely it is that a player from one football team can infect a player from the opposing team during a game. It seems that most of the outbreaks we’re seeing so far (both in the NFL and in colleges) are within a team, likely being spread during their team activities (practices, meetings, workouts, etc.)
They’re not cancelling. They’ll push the season back, they’ll shorten the season, they’ll play the Super Bowl in April whatever it takes but there’s too much money on the line to just cancel everything.
The Super Bowl could come down to the last two teams without a positive test.
Maybe I should be rooting for that. At least the Lions would have as much chance of getting in as any other team.