NFL stadiums going to practice social distancing? Steelers holding back 50 percent of ticket inventory
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The Southeastern Conference plans to allow schools to welcome back athletes to campus on June 8, which is great news for the coming season, but we still have many unanswered questions when it comes to the 2020 college football season.
Perhaps the biggest one is how fan attendance will be handled by individual conferences and schools.
Many assume college football will take its cues from professional leagues, and if that is the case, the Pittsburgh Steelers may have shed a light on what’s to come for the coming football season.
On Friday, the Steelers Director of Communications Burt Lauten announced the team will be holding 50 percent of the team’s ticket inventory for the time being in case the NFL practices social distancing at Heinz Field in 2020:
“The Steelers held back 50% of the normal ticket inventory when individual game tickets went on sale today for the 2020 season. We are being proactive with these limited amount of tickets as we are preparing for possible social distancing scenarios at Heinz Field this year.”
The Steelers are the first NFL team to publicly announce this measure, which means it could be the first of many to take this action or it could be the only one to do so.
Either way, this is an interesting action that is surely going to catch the SEC’s attention and is worth monitoring moving as we inch closer to the return of football.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
