Kirk Herbstreit weighed in with an opinion that he doesn’t think there will be NFL games this fall.
Kirk Herbstreit is a college football guy. ESPN’s top analyst is weighing in on the next level in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
He checked in on the ESPN radio network via a TMZ pickup and dropped this:
“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football. I’ll be so surprised if that happens,” he said. “Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a [coronavirus] vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it.”
Herbstreit was equally pessimistic about college football.
Herbstreit added if he was the NFL commish or in charge of the NCAA, he would shut it down ASAP — “Next thing you know you got a locker room full of guys that are sick. And that’s on your watch? I wouldn’t want to have that.”
“As much as I hate to say it, I think we’re scratching the surface of where this thing’s gonna go.”There has been some speculation whether ESPN would make the bold move of taking Herbstreit and his play-by-play partner Chris Fowler off college football and drop them into the Monday Night Football booth. If the former Ohio State quarterback is correct the network will have time to make its call on that one.
