NFL Tickets Are on Sale, But Fans May Not Be Ready to Buy Them
- Release of schedule usually triggers frenzy of ticket trading
- Independent brokers are seeing just 15% of their usual action
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The National Football League officially released its 2020 schedule -- a best-case look at how the season may go if the country’s most popular sport can play games amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The schedule, delayed a month, usually jump-starts billions of dollars in sales of tickets and TV ads. But this year isn’t typical. Baseball, basketball and hockey are on hold because of coronavirus, and the MLB especially has drawn criticism for its refund policies.