How would an NFL bubble look?

[DJB]

11 hours ago, Just Jack said:

I was just thinking about this after reading another article about all the positive tests this week.  How would the NFL do a bubble? You would need multiple stadiums if you try to play multiple games at the same time. Do you spread games out, say multiple games on Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday, or keep the current TV layout? Where are NFL stadiums in close proximity? I know Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland would be a good choice, any others? Having no fans makes it easy to use stadiums, minimum personnel needed. 

 

Thoughts? 

 

 

I'm thinking like this:

 

[dollars 2 donuts]

3 hours ago, Mickey said:

 

I get that but the thing is, by the time the number of infections are numerous enough to justify a bubble, it will be way too late for a bubble to save the season. You don't wait until the levee breaks before shoring it up with a storm on the way. I suppose the Titans situation could be an anomaly but everything this virus has shown us over the last 7 months belies that belief. 

 

 

A solid point, Mickey, but respectfully I believe it to be a false equivalency...the idea that some have it now and that THEY WILL spread it, and more will have it and that the games themselves are super spreaders.

 

If that was the case the season should have been shut down during training camp as some 70 or so players came down with it on various teams...yes, it was just amongst themselves, but it was held in check.  Numbers should have continued to rise , but they fell before the season and weren't really a factor in the first few weeks.  We still haven't really seen any link from one team to another.  

 

I just think the proposal of bubbling is moving mountains and not really seeing the forest for the trees right now.  

 

NFL...lengthen the season.  The last time I checked the world is not coming to an end and January and February are still full months in the year.  Add two weeks, somewhere, instead of quarantining approximately 32,000 people in some way, shape or form.

Edited October 8, 2020 by dollars 2 donuts

[billsfan89]

An NFL bubble would have to be regional sequestering 4-8 teams and then shifting them around. Basketball and Hockey were easier to do, less players and less staff and just the post season (thus they could have cut out several teams.) Football would likely be able to do something like that for the playoffs. 

[without a drought]

Something like this

[stuvian]

I think an NFL bubble would work in those markets that can be playing each other by car travel.

To Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland I would add Detroit.

Boston-NY-Philly-Washington-Baltimore is another.

Minneapolis - GB- Chicago- Cincy - Indy is another

 

Southwest is a little more complicated. Seattle's on a plane either way - unless they join the CFL 🙂

[LABILLBACKER]

Any team that goes beyond 10 players infected forfeits next game until they get under that number. Follow the damn rules and wear masks, avoid going out with fellow players or unauthorized practices etc. A hybrid bubble could have been established in 32 cities staying in 1 hotel but Goodell decided that wasn't the direction they wanted to go. Now he's trying to flex his authority some. The bottom line is you absolutely can't punish teams like Buffalo following protocols.

[Don Otreply]

How would it look in a bubble?

 

Well the concept of a snow globe comes to mind, and Tawmy Brady and Billy Belichick are inside it, so I grab it, shake it vigorously bouncing the two of them off the interior surface to the point that neither is able to participate further in this season..., but that’s just me I guess... 

 

Go Bills!!!