About 750 family members of New Orleans Saints players, coaches, and support staff will be in attendance at Sunday night’s game with the Green Bay Packers, the team announced. This follows their season opener with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a road game at the Las Vegas Raiders, neither of which involved a live audience.
The Saints characterized this as a trial run of their health and safety procedures for spectators amid the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining in a statement:
This is a strict test of our health and safety protocols that we have been working on with ASM Global, local and national health experts and city and state governmental leadership, including Governor John Bel Edwards and Mayor Latoya Cantrell, both of which are aware and have approved this safety test.