If this were coming from someplace other than ESPN-- where they seemingly have zero sense of humor-- I would have thought it was satirical: the NFL is prohibiting players from participating even if they test negative for the WuFlu!

They give the example of Adrian Peterson, who was "not practicing Thursday due to an illness unrelated to COVID-19"-- as in, they knew it wasn't the WuFlu, and still wouldn't let him play! "We're always going to err on the side of safety..." These people would literally fail a basic logic test: "A = B, A = C, so B = D"-- they can't even extrapolate their own stated principle, to see how silly it is.

Not to mention, their entire sport involves smashing your body into other human beings at top speed, and busting them to the ground as hard as you can. Err on the side of safety...?

But then again, this is the same league that has broken the kickoff yet leaves it in place, which arbitrarily made field goals tougher to make, made it virtually impossible to tackle someone or defend a pass without breaking the rules, and which decided to have an already stop-start game stop-start with extra video replays every three minutes-- among dozens of other sport-ruining alterations.

It's a league long-governed by hyper-emotional over-reactionaries.