Take a look inside Vikings facility, which is set up for training camp during pandemic
What goes into preparing a training facility during a pandemic?
Here are a few things for one team: A COVID room, proximity tracking devices, empty locker stalls, hands-free temperature checks and electrostatic disinfectant sprayers.
Those are just some of the new features of what NBC Sports’ Peter King calls a training facility for player “the likes of which they’ve never seen before.”
NFL players, including the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu, voiced their concern Sunday about NFL safety protocols at training camp. The Vikings appear to have a plan in place for working during the pandemic.
King, who writes the “Football Morning In America” column, got a tour of the Minnesota Vikings facility as the team prepares to open training camp this month.
Eric Sugarman, the Vikings’ vice president of sports medicine, gave King a look inside the complex, which NBC Sports shared on YouTube:
King wrote with greater depth about what he saw.
Here’s an excerpt about the COVID room: “It’s a typical office that will be kept empty and sterile, except when a player or staff member feel sick or is notified he/she has tested positive,” King wrote. “Sugarman has laid out a slew of health-care products to show me. Once a person tests positive or complains of illness, the person will be isolated in this room.”
Is this the norm around the NFL? Will the Chiefs take similar steps? We will see, but you can read more of what King wrote about the facility here.
