Pleasant Valley football begins summer program with new safety protocols

Pleasant Valley football came back this week after months of time off because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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### football is back for pleasant valley high school.

Sports reporter brandon benitez caught up with the vikings today following months of time off because of coronavirus.

The vikings returned to the gridiron with new health and safety protocols as they try to make up for lost time.

Nats: pv football!

X3 we're almost a month behind.

We usually start right after june 6th.

This year we wanted to start june 8th but we hadn't been able to do that... now with new social distancing guidelines -- and a bevy of altered workouts -- the reigning section champs are finally back... it was great because, first of all, it's my favorite sport and i haven't seen my friends in so long and it's a good combination to see both of them at the same time.

It's perfect/// it was highly anticipated like all of us were really looking forward to it.

There's been a lot of restrictions that we don't want really to follow because it's been a while since we've seen everybody.

It's different.

It's weird, but we gotta get used to it and get through it/// the kids haven't seen each other in three or four months so on day one when they were showing up they wanted to high five each other and hug each other cause they haven't seen their buddies in a long time and we were shouting at the top of our lungs hey you still have to have your six feet in a group of ten, you're fine so here we are day three we're doing a much better job with it now for sure i think they're starting to figure it out too and it's a teaching process... and for a sport like football -- time to prepare was well needed... we want muscle mass to help reduce injuries and every little bit of time that we're not in that weight room building up muscle mass then injuries are probably going to spike up so it's crucial that we're trying to get out here and get our stuff done in the four days we're out herein order to do that... but with the coronavirus pandemic still looming and still giving so much uncertainty there's still a chance that fields like asgard yard might stay empty it'd be heartbreaking for me and especially the class of 2021 for the seniors because this is supposed to be their last season/// it's hard just knowing that we're the vikings are one of many schools who tell me they'd be devastated to not have a season... the hope is entrance gates like this one leading into asgard yard are open when friday nights next school year come... in chico brandon benitez action news now coverage you can count on.

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