I questioned that before the season started.
The answer is that a multi-billion dollar business will always prioritize the product over player safety.
hey, remember when concussions were hilarious and there was that “I am Batman” commercial? NFL ran the “you got JACKED UP!” segment? (That was the greatest segment ever, btw)
Yeah. Then CTE became a thing and all of a sudden the NFL pretended to care about their players.
in short, the answer is, was and shall always be
Always about the
They could have done a bubble. They had a whole NBA season to determine what the best practice was.
They saw multiple interruptions to MLB but went for that model anyway. Against best practices, against the recommendations of epidemiologists & virologists. Why?