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The (newly temporarily named) Washington Football Team sent a letter Tuesday to season ticket holders allowing them to defer their tickets to the 2021 season or get a full refund.

While a majority of the letter details new health and safety protocols being put in place at FedEx Field for the upcoming season, it may also serve as a hint that the team and the NFL are anticipating not having fans at games in 2020.

The letter ends with contact information for questions, and a promise of more information to come: “Season ticket members will receive more details about their options for the 2020 season in the coming weeks.”

Like every other professional sports league, the question of whether NFL can keep its players and staff safe while completing a season is very much in the air.

Training camp, including for the Washington Football Team, starts this week. Much like Major League Baseball, the plan is for teams to self-monitor and test often — but not to go into a so-called bubble like the NBA, WNBA, and NWSL have.

On Monday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a letter aimed at assuring fans that football is still happening this season, though it does not say anything about fans being present at the games. There will also be pre-season games, Goodell announced.

While it has not officially been decided nor announced yet, players and owners are talking about how the game could look without fans in the stands.

The last month has been particularly eventful for the Washington Football Team.

In late June, a monument to the team’s racist founder was removed from outside RFK Stadium, as were references to him throughout its home stadium and practice fields. On July 13, the team announced it was officially “retiring” its dictionary-defined slur of a team name and logo which, for the most part, fans were on board with. Several days later, The Washington Post published a sweeping investigation about alleged sexual harassment and verbal abuse by a number of former team employees.

Then, on July 23, the team announced that temporarily they would go by the “Washington Football Team.”

In the letter to fans, the team also said that “mandatory face coverings” will now be required on FedEx Field property, and that ticketing would be mobile-only.