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As the NFL and NFL Players Association continue to negotiate pandemic procedures for training camp, one open issue relates to staying in hotels during training camp.
Players do not want mandatory hotel stays. Instead, the NFLPA is lobbying for optional hotel stays, both during training camp and other periods.
If, for example, players want to isolate themselves from high-risk relatives or newbies who are homeless in their new cities, they will be provided with hotel accommodation. But no player would be required to stay in a hotel in their home markets. (Most teams, even for home games, spend the night at a local hotel before a game.)
Obviously, staying in a hotel raises concerns during a pandemic, given the possibility of contracting the virus while in rooms that, no matter how clean they look, could be full of all kinds of bacteria and viruses and other undesirable compounds. This factor becomes particularly relevant to the question of traveling for road games.
Some teams are considering traveling on game day. Some players have reacted negatively to that suggestion. Other players may prefer it, because it means fewer opportunities to spend time in a building that could become the Central Crown.
