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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunshinepacker" data-source="post: 878947" data-attributes="member: 9033">Here's the thing, the focus on mortality ignores some of the other scary elements. Covid has unknown long-term impacts on the lungs and that's a scary prospect for pro athletes. Now, for those not interested in health impact and just want football, the silver lining is that NFL players, of all the sports, have shorter careers and are probably going to be the most willing to risk things to get paid.An important thing to remember is the length of recovery that some athletes will face; just getting it and surviving it doesn't take into account the recovery time to get cariodvascular fitness back. A month after testing positive, Von Miller was saying that his lungs were still getting back into shape. So, while there very well might be a season this year, I think the determining factor in who wins the Super Bowl (among the good teams) is probably going to be which teams lose the fewest players to Covid19 for extended periods of time.</blockquote>

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