Football and COVID. Watched HBO's Hard Knocks - the L. A. teams
At least the first episode. Both of the L. A. teams and how they had to prepare for training camp.
Interesting is watching two big organizations and how they are dealing with keeping about 80 young men with a lot of money healthy*. The whole organization too.
The head coach for the Chargers Anthony Lynn had a great observation and focus “We have two opponents every week. The other team and the virus. Whoever deals with the virus the best will end up with the trophy at the end of the year.”
Several of the players had had testing done early on apparently. They made comments about “jamming me in the brain” with the swab. One of the women testing said, “it’s changed since then”.
The Rams coach Sean McVay grew up in the Niners organization and his wife is NOT used to him being around this much. Pretty funny bit about how he’s coaching the dog in the pool “Pretty soon I think he’ll have it throwing the ball”.
A big event tent was set up for the Rams. Two weight rooms - weights have been incredibly hard to find in this pandemic - with a team of people cleaning everything all the time.
SPOLIER ALERT - we find out 1/2 through (unless I missed it earlier) that Coach Lynn of the Chargers is positive. We’d only seen him on Zoom calls.
*they sort of touched on a subject that isn’t getting a lot of attention - sex. Two players were talking and one said that if they caught it they’d have to be quarantined for at least ten days. If they broke quarantine they could get cut and ....be adrift in the free agent market. They other paused and said “TEN DAYS???” I took their conversation to be as much about sex as anything else. These are young fit rich guys who probably date pretty well as they used to say.
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