Dallas Cowboys will now have just 2 preseason games as NFL cuts schedule due to COVID
The Dallas Cowboys’ first preseason season game was canceled last week, and it appears another two will be cut as well.
Pro Football Talk is reporting that the NFL is set to announce that half of the 2020 preseason schedule will be canceled amid the growing concerns of the spread, and spike, of the coronavirus.
PFT is reporting that Week 1 and Week 4 of its preseason will be dropped, which would leave the Cowboys with two preseason games, both at home.
This could change in the next 10 minutes, but that would leave the Dallas Cowboys playing host to the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 22 at AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys will close the preseason hosting the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs on Aug. 29.
Armando Salguero of The Miami Herald is reporting that the NFL wants to give every team one home preseason game. That would likely mean the Cowboys would travel to Kansas City, on the same date.
The start of NFL training camps are now less than one month away. How this is all going to work looks less plausible, to absurd, by the day.
While the NFL prays it can proceed with fans in the stands and kickoff its regular season in September, one local team that plays in a league that is proceeding in a bubble just self reported a breakout of positive COVID-19 cases.
FC Dallas of Major League Soccer announced on Wednesday that six players have tested positive for COVID-19.
The club said that before the team and its staff departed for the MLS is Back Tournament outside of Orlando on June 27, the entire traveling party tested negative for the coronavirus.
Since arriving, two players tested positive for the coronavirus and were immediately isolated. Then an additional four players also tested positive.
“All members of the club delegation are following MLS health and safety protocols and will remain quarantined in their hotel rooms pending the results of further COVID-19 testing,” the team said in a statement.
NFL players have yet to meet for any official team activities since the Super Bowl.
The NFL already canceled its annual Hall of Fame Game and enshrinement festivities, which had been scheduled for the first week of August, over COVID-19 concerns. The Cowboys were to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 6.
The Cowboys’ regular season is set to kickoff against the Rams in Los Angeles on September 13. Might want to hold off on buying plane tickets just yet.
This story was originally published July 1, 2020 at 3:50 PM.
