Joe Montana: Coronabro?
Joe Montana sat down this week to do an interview with Sports Pulse, a USA Today site and had some interesting thoughts on playing during COVID and athletes becoming social justice warriors. Montana, who turned 64 this summer, says he most likely would've opted out of playing college football in the fall if it was up to him and he had eligibility in 2020.
“For me, I think I would’ve gone after the safety of my health first, in the end,” Joe Montana told USA TODAY Sports. “Because we’re not talking about the flu or a cold. This thing is killing people everywhere and not by one or two here and there. We’re talking about hundreds and hundreds a day, thousands.” In an interview with Yahoo! Sports, Montana said “I’m not sure I would,” when asked whether he'd suit up. “Even though I love the game, at some point in time you need someone that can step in and say, ‘You know, this is crazy.’”
In his USA Today interview, Montana worried about how football will be able to prevent outbreaks when so many bodies are in play.
“All I can tell you is look at baseball and baseball isn’t even a contact sport and look at the troubles they’ve had right away in trying to control it,” Montana said. “How many players are on a baseball team? Twenty-something? In college, it’s at least double that, if not more and double that in the NFL. In college you’re talking 70, 80. I don’t know how you do it. I don’t know how you keep them all safe, because as soon as practice is over, they go their own way.”
As for guys becoming social justice warriors, Montana seemed to like it.
“Everybody has their beliefs and things need to change,” he said. “It’s great to see these guys coming together and using it in other ways also.”