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Colts quarterback Philip Rivers looks to the Super Bowl as he wonders if the NFL is fully prepared for all the implications of playing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a call from the NFL Players Association on Friday, Rivers asked what would happen if a player tested positive for COVID-19 before the Super Bowl, according to NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero.
The response Rivers received is that there would be no exceptions, even for the Super Bowl, even if the player is asymptomatic. The rules say that any player who tests positive would have to be isolated for at least five days, and then could only return if he tested negative twice, and those two tests were administered at least 24 hours apart.
A nightmarish scenario for the NFL could mean that the starting quarterbacks of both Super Bowl teams test positive during Super Bowl week, or that one team has an outbreak on the team’s premises that caused so many players to miss out. the Super Bowl that they couldn’t even come up with a competitive roster.
It’s not fun to think about those nightmare scenarios, but the NFL needs to be ready for anything if it’s going to play during a pandemic.
