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The Ravens and Steelers will play Wednesday afternoon and the 49ers announced that the team would move to Arizona for two Games in December, as the coronavirus outbreak derailed the normal football season.
By Ken Belson
After a weekend of marks and patchwork solutions, the NFL was forced to juggle its schedule on Monday as it attempts to finish the full normal season on time amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The league moved the Pittsburgh Steelers game against the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday at 3:40 p. m. east, rescheduling the AFCNorth Match for the third time in six days. more than 20 players, adding the NFL’s most valuable player, Quarterback Lamar Jackson, tested positive for coronavirus, more time to bring them back.
At the start of Wednesday afternoon’s game, 12 Ravens players will still not be eligible to play, but the team will be able to do two practice sessions before reuniting the Steelers for the first time in more than a week.
To adapt to the schedule change, the N. F. L. moved the Ravens’ next game against the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday, December 8, starting Thursday. Game thirteen of the Steelers against the Washington football team was postponed until Monday, December 7, starting Sunday.
Wednesday games are incredibly rare. The latter was played in 2012, when the Giants and Dallas Cowboys changed their game to a Wednesday night to avoid overlaying President Barack Obama’s speech on the Democratic National Convention. It is the first regular-season game on Wednesday since the Los Angeles Rams in 1948 win over the Detroit Lions. The afternoon weather for the Ravens-Steelers will result in the additional peculiarity of a national mid-afternoon television football program.
The Baltimore-Pittsburgh postponement was the moment the schedules were announced monday, after the San Francisco 49ers said in a statement that the team would play their next two games at home at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals. Santa Clara County, California, home to the team’s stadium, banned tactile sports in all grades until last December in an effort to stem the outbreak of coronavirus infections in that country.
The team will play their games in weeks thirteen and 14 at the Cardinals facility in Glendale, Arizona, which were able to accommodate the move because the team’s schedules are not in conflict. The 49ers will play the Buffalo Bills on December 7 and face Washington football. december 13, but the club has yet to figure out where they will work out and live that time.
“I am very grateful that Arizona welcomed us back in those unprecedented times,” 49ers owner Jed York wrote on Twitter, thanking Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill.
While local and national rules for the spread of the virus have prevented viewers from attending some NFLGames in other markets this season, this is the first time that local fitness protocols have prevented a team from having to play games of chance or receive education in your domestic market. Summer, Santa Clara fitness officials were among the first to ban NFL fans. matches and passed an ordinance requiring players and coaches to wear a mask at all times, months before the league did the same last week.
On Saturday, Santa Clara County took further steps to lower the infection rate, adding a mandatory 14-day quarantine for others traveling more than 150 km, while cases in the region reached a new high last week and that’s positive. 100,000 inhabitants to 26. 8. The number of infections consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in Maricopa County, Arizona, of Cardinals Stadium, is 48. 6, almost twice as many as in Santa Clara County.
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