LAS VEGAS — With the NFL leaving it up to individual teams and/or local municipality guidelines as to how many, if any, fans can attend games, Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis is leaning toward not having any fans attend games at Las Vegas’ new Allegiant Stadium this season.

If no fans are admitted, Davis said, he will not attend games, either. As the lone dissenting vote on the league owners’ recent decision to tarp off the first eight rows of seats from the field in each stadium and cover them with advertisements, Davis said the Raiders’ idea of leaving the seats for fans and erecting hockey-style plexiglass around the bottom of the stadium to separate fans from players on the sidelines was “shot down” before the vote.

“No one fan is more important to me than another, no matter if they paid for a $75,000 PSL or a $500 PSL,” Davis told ESPN.com Sunday night. “They’re all Raider fans to me. My mindset today is no fans [should attend games].

“I don’t even know if it’s safe to play. ‘Uncertainty’ is the word.”

The Ballon d’Or will not be awarded in 2020 due to the “strange” sporting conditions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the event’s organizers, Group L’Equipe, said, according to The Associated Press’ Jerome Pugmire.

It will be the first time a footballer hasn’t been handed the prize since Blackpool’s Stanley Matthews won the inaugural Ballon d’Or in 1956. Megan Rapinoe took home the second-ever Ballon d’Or Feminin in 2019 while Lionel Messi collected his sixth Ballon d’Or.

“It’s such a strange year that we couldn’t treat it as an ordinary one. Let’s say that we started talking about (making the decision) at least two months ago,” Pascal Ferre, the editor of L’Equipe subsidiary France Football, told Pugmire.

“It isn’t a decision we took lightly but we had to accept it couldn’t be a normal or typical Ballon d’Or winner, and what really worried us is that it wouldn’t be fairly awarded.”

Ferre indicated the game’s modified laws and revamped calendar prompted by the coronavirus outbreak have harmed the integrity of the Ballon d’Or.

“The season started with certain rules and ended with other rules. In January and February, soccer was played in front of full stands. Then from May and June, it was with empty stands,” he explained.

“Then we had the five substitutes rule and not three. Then other changes happened in terms of the competitions, notably the final eight (eight-team knockout format) for the Champions League when it had started with home and away legs.”

Players’ performances in the abbreviated final rounds of the Champions League would’ve heavily influenced the award’s outcome with Euro 2020 and the Copa America both postponed due to the pandemic.

The Kopa Trophy and the Lev Yashin award – the prizes given to the best player under 21 and best goalkeeper, respectively – have also been canceled, Ferre confirmed. Players were not informed of the decision to cancel the awards before Monday’s announcement.

Ferre insists that the distinctions will be handed out in 2021 even if the coronavirus impacts the football season in the same way.

“It would be less of a problem in terms of fairness, because this time around we’ve had two parts to the season: normal and not normal,” Ferre said. “Imagine that in 2021 all matches are played behind closed doors (without fans) and with five subs. We would adapt, because it would be comparable.”

Ferre revealed a France Football Dream Team will be produced by the magazine’s jury of 180. The lineup will feature the greatest players in the sport’s history and will be released sometime in the fall.

NFL players took to Twitter on Sunday in a coordinated effort to urge the NFL to listen to its experts’ guidelines on safely opening training camps amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Many of the players used the hashtag #WeWantToPlay to accompany their tweets.

NFL Players Association president JC Tretter tweeted: “What you are seeing today is our guys standing up for each other and for the work their union leadership has done to keep everyone as safe as possible. The NFL needs to listen to our union and adopt the experts’ recommendations #wewanttoplay”

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  The New Orleans Saints’ Michael Thomas urged NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to follow the example of NBA commissioner Adam Silver to bring football back safely.

  “If Adam Silver can respect the voices and protect his NBA players why can’t @nflcommish do the same? Listen to your players,” Thomas tweeted.

  The Cleveland Browns’ Myles Garrett was among players to say that there won’t be a season if the NFL doesn’t “do their part to keep players healthy.”

  “If the NFL doesn’t do their part to keep players healthy there is no football in 2020. It’s that simple. #WeWantToPlay,” he said.

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  Dan Orlovsky loves the NFL stars calling out the league for lack of safety protocols before training camp and says the NFL needs to be proactive instead of reactive.

  The Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt was the first player to tweet his concerns, doing so on Thursday.

  On Wednesday, the NFLPA’s executive committee held a conference call with nearly 50 of its highest-profile players intended to inform the membership on where things stood ahead of training camp, one player on the call told ESPN’s Jeff Darlington. But that call took some turns as players felt the NFLPA couldn’t answer some of the simplest questions they were asking.

  Among others, Watt vocalized the need to gain more clarity on the NFL’s plan for player health and safety. As such, several players asked the NFLPA how they could assist and what their message should be. Essentially, one player said, the call became a galvanizing moment that has led to Sunday’s social media blitz. Since that call, players have been working with the NFLPA to work on ways to create a unified voice.

  On Saturday, when the NFL sent an email to each team informing them that training camp would start on time, one member of the NFLPA executive committee told ESPN they viewed the NFL’s action as a public relations attempt to quell fans’ concerns due to a growing sentiment from players — including Watt and Patrick Mahomes — who have expressed frustrations about the lack of clarity from the league.

  The NFLPA source said this public back-and-forth is expected to eventually lead to more expansive meetings between the league and the NFLPA in the coming days to gain a better understanding about how the league plans to handle aspects like practices, testing, opt-out clauses and other factors that players believe have not been properly agreed upon.

  Among the NFLPA’s requests to the NFL are daily testing, no preseason games and a “ramp up” period (21 days of strength and conditioning, 10 days of non-padded practices and 14 days of “contact acclimation”) once they report to camp.

  NFLPA executive committee member Sam Acho said on Sunday Morning on ESPN Radio that the NFLPA received a counterproposal from the NFL on Saturday night, but the league still hasn’t addressed most of the players’ concerns and is completely ignoring the advice of the doctors it hired to come up with a plan to safely start the season.

  “… and so as of now we are telling players to get ready and stay ready, but if the NFL doesn’t come up with these plans, you cannot show up,” he said.

  According to the CBA, players who do not report to training camp could be subject to fines, forfeiture of bonuses and salary and the loss of an accrued season.

  Acho said the NFL needs to give players a plan on how games might be canceled or delayed because of a coronavirus outbreak and also must address the financial ramifications players might face. He also accused the NFL of waiting to apply pressure on the players instead of coming up with a plan.

  “The owners, under the CBA or outside the CBA, their obligation is to provide a safe working environment for the players. … So if they don’t do that, we can’t play. It’s as simple as that,” he said.

  Rookies for the Texans and Kansas City Chiefs, the teams scheduled to play the Thursday night regular-season opener on Sept. 10, have been told to report Monday. The full-squad reporting date for the vast majority of teams is July 28.