New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has told CNN that she thinks the Saints should play any games this calendar year in an empty Superdome.
"I think that no fans present, that is the way to go."
It came after the mayor also called for canceling any festivals in 2020.
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April 16, 2020 Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards said this week that he could envision a situation where football is played at the college and pro level with fans in every other seat or every third seat.
He said, thinking off the top of his head, that measures would also have to be taken to separate people as the entered and left games.