We don’t say this very often.
Good for the NFL.
Good for pro football for being the first North American sports league to …
We don’t say this very often. Good for the NFL. Good for pro football for being the first North American sports league to put into writing what ought to be obvious and logical by now, a decision that, in essence, comes down to two talking points: The NFL actually went there, dropping an “F-bomb” far more significant than the one that, in whole or in part, made up two-sevenths of George Carlin’s old “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television” bit, a word that terrifies sports leagues because its implementation is always the culmination of something bad, the ultimate worst-case scenario. Forfeit. There were two items from the NFL’s memo released Thursday that seem almost certain to be game-changers, one way or another, for this upcoming season, which will cover 18 weeks and 17 games per club and feature 272 regular-season games — all of which the NFL expects to play. Or else… Or else a team compromised by infections of unvaccinated players risks losing that game — and all the revenue and playoff implications intertwined with it — by being forced to forfeit. And by the way? No players on either team involved in a forfeit will get paid for that week.
