No, I'm not ready for some football and I don't think anyone else should be either...

 (AKA What Is Going To Pass For The Superfraud 2020 NFL Preview)

Today is September 7th, Labor Day, three days to the beginning of the new NFL season with the World Champion Chiefs.

I've done so little pre-season looking into the NFL that it probably would boggle your mind.

Why? Simple, and it encompasses my overriding and first prediction on the season -- on which the basis of all other predictions I make in this post that this first one is wrong:

I do NOT believe the 2020-21 NFL season will complete with a Super Bowl Champion.  I believe the season will be terminated for cause without a champion.

The first and obvious situation is the coronavirus.  Though the NFL has been the luckiest of all the leagues in terms of timing, it is clear that we have a significant portion of this country refusing to the accept the reality (if not denying it outright, and no one wants to explore THOSE ramifications) that there is a global pandemic of a disease which has been frustrating to deal with, if not worse, and an official death rate in this country still exceeding 3%.

We have over 2,000 cases at the University of Alabama.  At least 16 members of the Auburn football team have had it.  I could go on and on...

We have growing numbers of cases and deaths surrounding the ill-conceived annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.  (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Chris Jericho!!!)

The way things were in March is OVER.  It's not coming back.  Whatever DOES come back will require some degree of vaccine, because the only other feasible alternative (which many of these covidiots want) is 3% of the entire population cleaved -- infect them all, God sorts it out, and he will do so in "our favor".

When the big college Labor Day marquee game is Army vs. BYU because so few teams are actually trying to play this season, that tells you something.  (There are also those who will tell you it's about time the Big Ten and Pac-12 got fully out of the way!)

But that's now just one problem.  Another is really coming up on the outside.

The BLM riots, the 2020 election, and mass violence.

Don't believe me?  There was a confrontation at Saturday's Kentucky Derby with respect to this.  BLM protesters and anti-BLM counterprotesters clashed at the event.

Note and side comment:  I am not necessarily saying this with respect to fans being able or not being able to attend NFL games to start this season.  The opening game in Kansas City will operate with about 20% fans -- 17,000 or so.

According to Yahoo -- as of Saturday, only two NFL Week 1 games will have any fans at all.  That one and Indianapolis at Jacksonville (planned capacity about 25%).

Six teams (KC, Jacksonville, Dallas, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Miami) plan on fans of some number at all home games this year.  Most are going fanless for September.  Washington, Las Vegas and the two LA teams will not have fans at all for the 2020 season.  The Giants, Jets, and Eagles are "until further notice".

So that's not the issue here on this.  If I had the ear of Roger Goodell, I would cancel all play for at least November 8-9, and probably 15-16 as well, due to the election and everything which probably will surround it.  I'll discuss later what I think is going to happen with all that, but you can be assured it's NOT going to be good.

But it does bring to another issue -- the rising anti-sports anti-Black sentiment among the White Right in this country.

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So everything from here on down is speculative and based on that prediction being wrong and Super Bowl LV played...  some point late-winter/early-spring 2021.

Remember, there's no preseason this year.  These first few weeks are going to be butt-ugly.  There have been years holding out starters for the preseason has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.  Now, it's EVERYBODY.

This is where I think we're going this year:

AFC East:  Buffalo finally gets the division.

AFC North:  Baltimore and Lavar Jackson.

AFC South:  Houston

AFC West:  Kansas City

Wildcards:  New England and Las Vegas

AFC CHAMPION:  KC goes back to back.  In pushing Mahomes, Lavar Jackson is going to get left behind in a way never seen before in the history of the league.

NFC East:  Dallas

NFC North:  Green Bay, only because I think they'll be "useful idiots" again.

NFC South:  Tampa Bay, the biggest rig-job of the year.  I think it's clear the league is trying to assemble what they can for Brady to get #6 this year, because his time is basically up!

NFC West:  Seattle

Wildcards:  San Francisco and New Orleans, with Minnesota just missing out.  New Orleans will get screwed without lube again.

NFC CHAMPION:  Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay beats Kansas City in the Super Bowl, Tom Brady.