Football and coronavirus
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No doubt the smaller conferences will be the leaders in this. The SEC and Big 10 are going to hold out as long as possible. It's Big money for the SEC and Big 10 schools. They have already talked about no games out of conference. The smaller schools count on playing that game against Alabama or OSU to take their drubbing, but get a $600,000 check to do so. It's money to keep the lower schools programs going, and gives the teams like Auburn a chance to play a few seniors who have only seem the field a few times and practice.
I think all big schools should schedule a small school. It promotes the game of football. Those smaller schools need that half a $mil. Plus, every now and then you end up with a Appy State going to the Big House and winning. I am not anti- Michigan like most of you, but that is a good story. Little guy wins once in a while.
The little Engine that could.
It works for both.
No doubt the smaller conferences will be the leaders in this. The SEC and Big 10 are going to hold out as long as possible. It's Big money for the SEC and Big 10 schools. They have already talked about no games out of conference. The smaller schools count on playing that game against Alabama or OSU to take their drubbing, but get a $600,000 check to do so. It's money to keep the lower schools programs going, and gives the teams like Auburn a chance to play a few seniors who have only seem the field a few times and practice.
I think all big schools should schedule a small school. It promotes the game of football. Those smaller schools need that half a $mil. Plus, every now and then you end up with a Appy State going to the Big House and winning. I am not anti- Michigan like most of you, but that is a good story. Little guy wins once in a while.
The little Engine that could.
It works for both.
Without fans in the stands would small school still get the 600K?
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No doubt the smaller conferences will be the leaders in this. The SEC and Big 10 are going to hold out as long as possible. It's Big money for the SEC and Big 10 schools. They have already talked about no games out of conference. The smaller schools count on playing that game against Alabama or OSU to take their drubbing, but get a $600,000 check to do so. It's money to keep the lower schools programs going, and gives the teams like Auburn a chance to play a few seniors who have only seem the field a few times and practice.
I think all big schools should schedule a small school. It promotes the game of football. Those smaller schools need that half a $mil. Plus, every now and then you end up with a Appy State going to the Big House and winning. I am not anti- Michigan like most of you, but that is a good story. Little guy wins once in a while.
The little Engine that could.
It works for both.
No doubt the smaller conferences will be the leaders in this. The SEC and Big 10 are going to hold out as long as possible. It's Big money for the SEC and Big 10 schools. They have already talked about no games out of conference. The smaller schools count on playing that game against Alabama or OSU to take their drubbing, but get a $600,000 check to do so. It's money to keep the lower schools programs going, and gives the teams like Auburn a chance to play a few seniors who have only seem the field a few times and practice.
I think all big schools should schedule a small school. It promotes the game of football. Those smaller schools need that half a $mil. Plus, every now and then you end up with a Appy State going to the Big House and winning. I am not anti- Michigan like most of you, but that is a good story. Little guy wins once in a while.
The little Engine that could.
It works for both.
This is going to be a bad thing for all size schools, the big schools with their big budget athletic programs (women's included) some virtually supported by the football programs. Their big buck massive capital improvement and expansion projects some just to keep up with the other schools and their big buck projects to attract and hold the 4 and 5 star athletes -and- keep the school boosters happy that write those big checks for everything else.
It goes right through the mid range schools all the way down to the small schools just trying to keep their athletic programs alive. Even some big schools are going to be hurting with what is going on.
And the TV money and networks with the huge TV contracts which are the lifeblood of all sports have a BIG stake in all of this to keep feeding that now massive food chain.
2020 is going to be a bad year for everyone from pee-wee to professional sports with some repercussions felt into 2021 and beyond..... Olympics included.
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I hated that song then and hate it now. Its disrespectful to those that died.
It was meant to be disrespectful to those who sent them to die. Were you even around in those times?
It was meant to be disrespectful to those who sent them to die. Were you even around in those times?
That song was a sarcastic response to the feelings of a lot of under 25 year olds at the time that it was a needless war fought in a godforsaken jungle. and now our enemies are our friends...
More and more countries that have cleared the virus out are and will be forming trade and travel bridges to each other. And that growing incentive should motivate other countries to take this virus seriously. Either that or stay a pariah nation. Health is now the global passport, and nobody trusts the US any more.
Sure you have a bunch of whingers complaining about masks because of rights they have on their own private property. OK. But they do not get to go into stores, government offices, public or private transport, restaurants, etc. without one. Doesn't matter how small their gun is, their right to be comfortable does not trump other people’s right to not get infected. Does this sound too hard to do? Tell that to the people that twice had to give everything up to fight a world war last century. It can be done so long as the will to do so is there.
I’ve been preached to about “Responsibility” all my life from the same people who now run around ignoring theirs. You actually want the “Economy” back in working order? Save the humans who constitute it.
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principals in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it” - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiment
Hey- we're #1- in cases and deaths in the world, who could want more?
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As opposed, of course, to conservatives narcing on every college professor, black person, and hippie since 1971 for the thoughtcrime of existing.
And which one of your college professors fed you that garbage?
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Almost 72k new cases in the US today. WTF
.....And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die. -
Funny how you "Law and Order" types flip on a dime when the law or order in question doesn't make you personally feel good.
Quoting your very own Gorsuch from the McGirt decision last Thursday : “Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law.”
Real Americans wear masks - and in most municipalities, once you close the door, it's the law whether you like it or not.
Funny how you "Law and Order" types flip on a dime when the law or order in question doesn't make you personally feel good.
That's right there in the top ten of the most ignorant things you've said. There are laws and there are mandates.
Perhaps learn the definition:
mandate is an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept while law is (uncountable) the body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities or law can be (obsolete) a tumulus of stones.
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The death rate is down. CNN must have forgotten to report that.
The hospitals and medical community are getting better at handling this virus unfortunately through months of practice.
The death toll stands at 138,040.
GO BUCKEYES, BROWNS, INDIANS, CAVS, YSU, NAVY and yes I like ND! -
certainly interesting seeing training camps are supposed to be weeks away. Seems like the NFL is holding on to a wing and a prayer.
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The hospitals and medical community are getting better at handling this virus unfortunately through months of practice.
The death toll stands at 138,040.
Surely you're mistaken. Don't you mean 1,380,400?
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
Yeah, I can't see this happening either.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
The nflpa union reported about 72 players with the bug, no names, and they're planning a September snap ?
The next real football event may be the NFL draft in April-ish 2021 from Cleveland Ohio ! That should be fun.....I hope.
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When is it your turn?
My turn to do what, punk you?
Yeah we've reached 138K deaths. Gee I thought only black lives mattered to you assholes. Make up your minds.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
What fucking timing. The Browns will be a lock to finally represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I don't believe in curses, but we are cursed.
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When is it your turn?
My turn to do what, punk you?
Yeah we've reached 138K deaths. Gee I thought only black lives mattered to you assholes. Make up your minds.
My turn to do what, punk you?
Yeah we've reached 138K deaths. So now all lives matter to you assholes? Make up your minds.
To die Mr. Bond. You are the one who is so cavalier with everyone else’s life. Just thought you should know how it feels to have others be cavalier with your life.
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To die Mr. Bond. You are the one who is so cavalier with everyone else’s life. Just thought you should know how it feels to have others be cavalier with your life.
Why of course. Atop your perch of moral superiority please do tell us more about things we should know.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news in such a harmonious thread, but there will not be a single snap in any level of football in 2020.
Carry on.....
What fucking timing. The Browns will be a lock to finally represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I don't believe in curses, but we are cursed.
What fucking timing. The Browns will be a lock to finally represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I don't believe in curses, but we are cursed.
At the end of last year we went to Hawaii for the 1st time in my 52 years of life. 6 Days before we flew out we made an offer on our dream home which was accepted. We closed escrow 45 days later and moved in 5 days after closing.
Then came the Zombie Apocalypse, Murder Hornets, our family business almost wiped out, Civil War v2.0 and now no football when the Browns' window might finally be open....
I'm pretty sure that on the flight home, the airplane went down somewhere in the Pacific and I just don't know it yet.
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What fucking timing. The Browns will be a lock to finally represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I don't believe in curses, but we are cursed.
At the end of last year we went to Hawaii for the 1st time in my 52 years of life. 6 Days before we flew out we made an offer on our dream home which was accepted. We closed escrow 45 days later and moved in 5 days after closing.
Then came the Zombie Apocalypse, Murder Hornets, our family business almost wiped out, Civil War v2.0 and now no football when the Browns' window might finally be open....
I'm pretty sure that on the flight home, the airplane went down somewhere in the Pacific and I just don't know it yet.
At the end of last year we went to Hawaii for the 1st time in my 52 years of life. 6 Days before we flew out we made an offer on our dream home which was accepted. We closed escrow 45 days later and moved in 5 days after closing.
Then came the Zombie Apocalypse, Murder Hornets, our family business almost wiped out, Civil War v2.0 and now no football when the Browns' window might finally be open....
I'm pretty sure that on the flight home, the airplane went down somewhere in the Pacific and I just don't know it yet.
Hawai'i is my favorite all time vacation spot I like big city Honolulu and especially Waikiki but the rest of Hawai'i is beautiful.
The rest you nailed pretty well......and de' plane, de' plane maybe you're still on Fantasy Island somewhere with Amelia.
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Surely you're mistaken. Don't you mean 1,380,400?
Maybe I am reading in, but there aren't nearly that many deaths.. Even worldwide it is maybe half of that. Here 140,000 in rough numbers.
As a person in my 70's, I don't like to say this, but many of the deaths are elderly people. How many were going to die from catching a common cold as an example a week later? Face it, as you reach a certain age, the immune system just doesn't work the same. Nobody gets out of this life alive. Something is going to catch up with all of us.
If we start seeing large numbers of young people die then we have a real problem. Once you get to be 60 or so, most people have some underlying condition. Heck, even Jack Lalanne died, and seriously, he might have been one of the fittest persons in the history of the world. Look him up if you don't know about him.
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