NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell On Playing Through Covid-19: “We Do Think It’s Safe To Continue”

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In a rare live interview during an even more rare telecast — a Wednesday afternoon NFL football game — league commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the intensifying threat of Covid-19.Despite dozens of positive coronavirus tests and record waves of infection sweeping the country, a pause or shortening of the NFL season is not in the cards, Goodell asserted.“We do think it’s safe to continue,” he said during NBC’s broadcast of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens game. “Virus spread has increased in our community, so that’s a challenge for us.

But we believe that the protocols that we’ve established are working. We’re going to continue to evaluate and see what improvements we can continue to make.”Originally set for Thanksgiving night in

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