NFL Looking to Move Super Bowl Out of Los Angeles?

CLAY: Buck, do you remember the conversation — I don’t know if we had it on air or off air — where I was talking with you about how I would be really nervous if I was in the NFL and I had the Super Bowl scheduled to be played in Los Angeles?

BUCK: We did have this talk. I do remember it.

CLAY: We had the conversation, I think on the air. There are reports that have come out since we started the show today that the NFL is reaching out to locations including Dallas, Texas, to talk about whether they could host the Super Bowl in the event that California starts to shut down more. Are you confident…? That is, we know Omicron is going to skyrocket, right?

California is gonna set an all-time record, despite all the taking the virus seriously that they’ve done in San Francisco and L.A. and other marketplaces there. Are you confident that they’re going to be sane and deny to allow people to show up — en masse, big group, tens of thousands of people — to watch sporting events? We just saw Stanford in the Bay Area shut down all crowds for athletic events there. I would be incredibly nervous if I were the NFL about whether L.A. is gonna continue to be able to host the Super Bowl.

BUCK: I think you’d have to be. I think anybody who didn’t see it that way would be ignoring the history and the reality of what we’ve all been through in the blue states in particular. Speaking of which, I want to take this call because right now it’s a pretty remarkable thing, friends, that there are people who are being told… Remember how we were told the hospitals had to fire doctors and nurses, particularly nurses who won’t get the shot? Gotta fire ’em. They’re such a risk. Now hospitals are saying even if you actively have covid, if you have symptoms, if you are sick, you gotta come in to work.

CLAY: They’re desperate.

BUCK: Think of how much worse that is! Unvaccinated people are gonna be not sick 99.99% of the time they’re doing their work. They’re bringing in people who are actively sick. We have Elaine in Rhode Island. I want to talk to her about this one. Elaine, thanks for calling in.

CALLER: Yeah, y’all! I think I’m making history. I think I’m the first person from Rhode Island to call you.

CLAY: You sound like you weren’t from Rhode Island originally, though.

CALLER: (laughing)

CLAY: That’s a Southern accent I hear.

CALLER: Yeah, you’re right. I’m an Alabama girl that’s been transplanted.

BUCK: Roll Tide, Elaine. Roll Tide.

CALLER: Roll Tide! Roll Tide every day.

BUCK: I’ve been meaning to say that.

CALLER: Yeah. It was in the news this week, they laid off all have gotta health care workers, and so just yesterday in the news here, they’ve decided that if you’ve tested positive for covid as a health care worker, you can take care of positive covid patients.

BUCK: There we go which means they’re also coming around other people that don’t have covid. Let’s all be very clear about that.

CLAY: Right. But it is — thanks follow call Elaine, big game for the Crimson Tide against Georgia, by the way, on Monday in Indianapolis — another big market for us — where they’re hosting the college football national championship game. But I gotta say this. Buck, this is just a hundred percent a sign of how desperate they are. The going from 10 days to five days on the quarantine wasn’t about anything scientific. It was just about the fear that so many millions of people are gonna test positive that society is not gonna be able to function. That’s what they’re terrified of.

BUCK: Maybe we should have been making determinations like that all along, judging and balancing instead of just running away in fear.

CLAY: Amen.

BUCK: That’s what they want you to do.