NFL to restrict players’ off-field activities in 2020
By Tyler Kemp
With the recent announcement of the NFL’s safety plan for players to return to football activities, the league is looking to make sure its players stay vigilant off the field as well.
The NFL and its players have been involved in a seesaw battle throughout its virtual offseason. While other American sports leagues like the NBA, MLB and NHL have plans put into place with how to proceed with its seasons, the NFL has been relatively quiet on health and safety procedures concerning its players.
After the players put some pressure on their league to figure out what exactly is happening with training camps starting, the NFL put together its health and safety protocol to get players back to their facilities.
The NFL is going the extra mile to ensure their players stay safe
According to ProFootballTalk, the league is also putting in certain restrictions on what players are not allowed to do during their time off in between practices, workouts and games.
Per source, players cannot be present at indoor night clubs, indoor bars (except to pickup food), indoor house parties (with 15 or more people), indoor concerts, professional sporting events, or indoor church services that allow attendance above 25 percent of capacity.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 25, 2020
Due to the fact that the NFL cannot put all of its players, coaches and personnel into a bubble setting similar to how the NBA did, football will be under an even larger microscope for how players conduct themselves off the field. Instead of going out for their leisure time, players will have to make adjustments to how they spend time off the field.
Most of the proposals make sense given the circumstances that America is still in because of COVID-19. As states work on their phase reopening, there are only certain things that are allowed in a given timeframe as is. For players in bigger market cities, following these rules should not be so difficult given that they already had to do so for so long.
For any players that do not comply with these guidelines of not going to nightclubs, bars, house parties, concerts, sporting events or church services that are indoors, the league reserves the right to punish them financially. In a fiscal year that is important for the players and the NFL, making certain decisions will affect how players deal with financial consequences.
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