Column: Half a season and a Super Bowl ahead for NFL

For that, the NFL needed a real miracle and the buy-in of everyone — including the Las Vegas Raiders — to clear a path to the Super Bowl in February. Whether the title game will be played Feb. 7 in Tampa Bay still remains in question, halfway through a schedule upended at times by the coronavirus. If anyone needed a reminder the virus was in charge, they got it this week when the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers put quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and three others on the COVID-19 list after tight end Vance McDonald tested positive.