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The Buffalo Bills’ broadcast team might follow suit with the way MLB games have been broadcast this summer.
According to the Buffalo News, the Bills’ radio broadcast team, play-by-play man John Murphy and color analyst Eric Wood, will be working from the team’s facility in Orchard Park during the 2020 season when the road travels to games. The report states the plan is “being discussed now” and indicates things can change before opening day, so nothing is set in stone.
But doing so would make plenty of sense. Many baseball teams are doing the same measure, and even nationally shown MLB games, such as ones on ESPN, have a broadcast crew working remotely and not at stadiums. It would remain to be seen what the television broadcasts on game day would do in the NFL, but all of these distancing measures are being conducted across sports as a safety precaution in regard to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
The NFL and MLB are the two similar leagues in this regard, as opposed to the NHL and NBA. The latter two leagues are playing games in a “bubble” or host cities so all players from all teams are in a regulated area. Football is planning to go the way of baseball teams in 2020, meaning stadiums might be empty, but teams would still travel between cities to play games.
The Bills are currently slated to play games in several “hot spots” for the coronavirus pandemic, such as Florida, Arizona and California.
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