Atlanta Falcons President & CEO Rich McKay joined Dukes & Bell Thursday as he talked about what happened Wednesday night in the NBA, how he feels no preseason games affects the league, plus why the team decided to start the season with no fans in attendance.
McKay talked about the decision to not allow fans in attendance to start the season.
“We’ve done a lot of work. We went in with the idea that we wanted to try to find a way to do it with a limited capacity,” McKay said. “I think we just became a little more concerned from just a pure health and safety of the players, of the fans, of everybody that works at the building that maybe September wasn’t the time to open and start in that mode and that everybody would be safer, everybody would be in a better place if we first started in the no fans environment.
“It’s not the way we wanted to go but then once we got ourselves comfortable we said you know what this is an easy decision because it’s the right decision so that’s what we did.”