The NFL is still pushing forward with playing the 2020 regular season, but the game is going to be very different in many ways, although the known changes mostly involve peripheral issues. The league has just released some new rules to try and make the game safe enough to play in the ongoing pandemic.
One that has drawn a lot of attention is that players will have to maintain social distancing after the game, and no longer will be allowed to exchange jerseys. Taken in isolation, the precautions are sensible to keep the virus from spreading, but given that the teams will just have spent about three hours engaging in collisions and tackles, with lots of breathing right in each others’ faces at times, it is not surprising that there has been some mocking of the approach.