Tongue firmly in his cheek, Bears chairman George McCaskey said he gave Matt Nagy advice for Sunday’s season opener.
“Let’s get up on them early, ‘Sonny,’” he said, “and take the crowd out of the game.”
Of course, there will be no crowd in Detroit. There won’t be cheerleaders or mascots or practice squad players anywhere at Ford Field, part of precautions taken by the NFL to protect against coronavirus spread. Instead, crowd noise will be piped in — NFL Films is providing soundtracks for the 30 stadiums from which it has collected ambient audio — to air alongside loud music.