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Here's Mike Lupica and Mitch Albong. I'm Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, MLB.com.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and this is the sports reporter's podcast.

We start today with the NFL, which as it prepares to start its whatever it's going to be of its season in coronavirus, more and more shifting is going on.

And later in the program, we'll talk about the one thing that doesn't shift, which is the Washington Redskins name.

But right now, the NFL is talking about, number one, canceling two of its preseason games, which we predicted here a week ago.

And number two, contemplating asking fans to sign waivers before they come in to the games,

stating that if they should go home with coronavirus, in addition to their $12 beer and their

souvenir pennant, they won't hold the team responsible.

First of all, Mike, I didn't think there were going to be any fans.

I thought we had agreed there weren't going to be any fans.

Now, apparently, they want to float a trial balloon

and see if this works as well as the Trump rally did in Tulsa.

Your thoughts.

Yeah, Mitch, isn't this typically passive aggressive of the national football league

they haven't said officially that they're going to ask fans to sign waivers they're just saying

they're considering they they float these trial balloons and sometimes they pull them back

and sometimes they follow through in it.

Okay. Here's what we know about those waivers that people signed in Tulsa for the Trump

rally. Numbers have spiked since then in Tulsa. Okay. And as you looked into the crowd,

there's only 6,000 people that night in a 19,000 seat arena. You saw how few masks there were. Now, at the same time,

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