While social distancing regulations are easing around the country, no one can accurately predict what the 2020 NFL season will actually look like. Though the NFL schedule release points to the league having plenty of hope for the season to start on time and be a full 16 games, the coronavirus pandemic makes that far from a guarantee.
For many, their employment is directly tied to the football season. Stadium workers, especially, could get hurt the worst if life isn’t back to normal. Not only do they need the games to happen in the first place, but they’d also need fans in the stands to sell concessions to, provide security for, take tickets from and perform a myriad of other underappreciated jobs on a typical game day.
However, the Baltimore Ravens will be helping those workers out in the event the season either can’t go on or is altered in some way, according to Ravens president Dick Cass.
“If we don’t have that kind of staff because we have a reduced crowd at the stadium, we are planning on creating an employees’ assistance fund,” Cass said in a press conference with the United Way, according to the Associated Press.
Cass continued, saying “We have not terminated or laid off or furloughed anybody and we don’t intend to.”
