Through three weeks of the regular season, the NFL’s plan to play games amid the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to be working.
Then reality struck.
Since then, the new normal of the NFL season has set in with the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons the latest franchises forced to shutter their facilities because of COVID-19 cases.
How can the NFL move forward amid outbreaks?
As the inevitability of an airborne pandemic’s impact on a sports league that travels from city to city was realized, it raised a significant question — how can the NFL carry on with its season as the United States faces a fall wave of coronavirus cases?