High School Football Games and Coronavirus Precautions

High School Football Games and Coronavirus Precautions

>>> tonight's football games were rescheduled.

Originally scheduled for friday and now they were moved to thursday because of severe weather and it appears that weather is already impacting the game's scheduled for tonight.

>> dan shaffer: waay 31's sports director lynden blake is at the stadium.

The weather forced you inside, lynden.

>> well, guys, whether is just getting the best of us no matter if the teams move the games from friday to thursday.

There's a lot of lightning in the madison area so i'm coming to you live from the referee locker room but that's where we had to go when they cleared the stands over the intercom for at least the next 15 minutes.

In an effort to social distance they're actually putting fans in every single space they can because there's not that much room underneath this stadium bleachers.

That's one of the things that bob jones is trying to do here, is truly keep that social distance in place no matter what the circumstances are.

When everyone is able to go back out in the stands after this blows over, they will have to be six feet apart and the student sections will have to be in the main stands this season instead of the end zone.

More changes here.

But, yeah, the weather is not looking good right here now still coming down outside.

But hopefully we'll