.ArashMadani takes us inside the CFL's return-to-play plan and looks at its economic and logistical challenges.
The committee’s game plan was to first look at a minimum number of venues to stage practices and games. The decision was made to go to the areas in the country with the fewest reported cases of COVID-19. That took them to the Prairies. The curve has all but flattened in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the numbers of people with the virus there are minute in comparison to Ontario and Quebec.
Regina and Winnipeg were identified as the two cities as hubs. Five teams would congregate in one market, four in the other. With that as the backdrop of the committee’s framework, next came the most important factor on the medical side of the entire plan: testing.
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