Saints' Sean Payton 'Cleared' By Doctors After COVID-19

by Larry Leo

March 26, 20204 Comments

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been cleared by doctors after having the Coronavirus...

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"I'm doing well. I was cleared yesterday," 56-year-old Payton said during a radio interview Wednesday night with 'WWL.'

"I've been fortunate. You stay inside like everyone's doing, and you find ways to pass the time. We had a competition committee meeting the other day on teleconference. But, I'm feeling a lot better."

Payton joked that he's been passing the time binging on Netflix shows -- like everyone else.

He also addressed the criticism he got for going to a horseracing event in Arkansas on March 14 -- despite warnings about coronavirus.

"My Twitter blows up. 'Hey, what is he doing at the races?' Hey, if I knew I had this, I wouldn't have been at the racetrack two weeks ago. And the racetrack was closed. I was there in a small ownership group," Payton said.

"And then [people complained], 'He got a test on Monday without symptoms.' I had symptoms. I wasn't gonna use a test if I didn't have symptoms."

"We're not invincible, and every one of us certainly can catch this thing. Shoot, we've got politicians, athletes -- you name it, they've caught it. Prince Charles caught it, right? So it doesn't matter if you live in a castle or you live in an apartment."