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  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
    #1

    It seems like every other sport that is taking place has been cancelled or suspended:

    NBA/NHL/MLS   all suspend their season.

    MLB has pushed back opening day at least 2 weeks.

    NCAA Basketball Tournament.....cancelled, both men and women.   

    Also all other winter/spring NCAA sports suspended

    NASCAR driving without fans. 

    Not sure about Golf.

    Not sure about European soccer.  (who cares, right?)

    But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

    NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

    Also, while the big fan fest that has become the NFL draft may not take place.  The actual drafting of players can take place.  Just need  Facetime/Skype whatever, and computers.   Teams can still make their choices.

    Only thing there is:  I assume that any of the "Pro Days" that may have not yet happened may not take place.  (though, maybe private workouts can)

  • D BoneD D Bone wrote on last edited by D Bone
    #2

    F1 cancelled its season opener in Melbourne Australia 

    Supercross has cancelled its round 13 event at Seattle Seahawks Stadium..... and I will be shocked if they don't cancel all of their remaining races

    CIF in CA cancelled boys and girls basketball playoff games

  • Browns149B Browns149 wrote on last edited by
    #3

    The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 
     

    Some European football is also being played 

  • The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 
     

    Some European football is also being played 

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @browns149 said:

    The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 

    But, are any fans allowed in on the course?
     

    Some European football is also being played 

    "European Football"    By that do you mean soccer?  Some call that "South American Football"  considering that Brazil and Argentina have been about the best at it. 

  • Browns149B Browns149 wrote on last edited by
    #5

    No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

    And, yes, European football is soccer 

  • @browns149 said:

    The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 

    But, are any fans allowed in on the course?
     

    Some European football is also being played 

    "European Football"    By that do you mean soccer?  Some call that "South American Football"  considering that Brazil and Argentina have been about the best at it. 

    NeroN Nero wrote on last edited by
    #6

    @the-gipper said:

    "European Football"    By that do you mean soccer?  Some call that "South American Football"  considering that Brazil and Argentina have been about the best at it. 

    That's weird. Brazil has 5, Argentina 2 and Uruguay 2... But Italy and Germany each have 4, France 2 and Spain and Englan 1 each. 

    European teams have been better overall for some time. Brazil has last south american Championship from 2002.

  • It seems like every other sport that is taking place has been cancelled or suspended:

    NBA/NHL/MLS   all suspend their season.

    MLB has pushed back opening day at least 2 weeks.

    NCAA Basketball Tournament.....cancelled, both men and women.   

    Also all other winter/spring NCAA sports suspended

    NASCAR driving without fans. 

    Not sure about Golf.

    Not sure about European soccer.  (who cares, right?)

    But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

    NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

    Also, while the big fan fest that has become the NFL draft may not take place.  The actual drafting of players can take place.  Just need  Facetime/Skype whatever, and computers.   Teams can still make their choices.

    Only thing there is:  I assume that any of the "Pro Days" that may have not yet happened may not take place.  (though, maybe private workouts can)

    gumby73G gumby73 wrote on last edited by gumby73
    #7

    @the-gipper said:

    But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

    NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

    not so fast on that one now either...was listening to a former team doctor, Dr David Chow & he brought up a fair point... Most teams facility are now closing also... If a team wanted to visit with Trent Williams as a trade or any injury history FA.... would any of those paying teams not* want TW or Kirksey to pass their own team physical? The Browns did manage two draftee visit by TCU's DT Ross Blacklock prior to yesterday & Boise St. OT Ezra Cleveland today... stay tuned, GM's need to know if were playing with the new CBA $$ OR the old CBA?

  • RichiswhereR Richiswhere wrote on last edited by
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    Last i read the XFL is still going to play but in empty stadiums.

    You know Mcmahon has to be saying to himself "are you fucking kidding me"

  • Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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    March Madness in front of empty stands was going to be too weird.

  • The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 
     

    Some European football is also being played 

    gumby73G gumby73 wrote on last edited by gumby73
    #10

    @browns149 said:

    The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 

    just now called off

    @richiswhere said:

    Last i read the XFL is still going to play but in empty stadiums.

    You know Mcmahon has to be saying to himself "are you fucking kidding me"

    Now Done for the Season... Mcmahon is paying all base salaries & benefits for 2020 season.. be back in 2021..  #thisisgunnasuck? 

  • OrionO Orion wrote on last edited by
    #11

    Thanks China!   

  • No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

    And, yes, European football is soccer 

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
    #12

    @browns149 said:

    No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

    And, yes, European football is soccer 

    Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

  • @the-gipper said:

    But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

    NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

    not so fast on that one now either...was listening to a former team doctor, Dr David Chow & he brought up a fair point... Most teams facility are now closing also... If a team wanted to visit with Trent Williams as a trade or any injury history FA.... would any of those paying teams not* want TW or Kirksey to pass their own team physical? The Browns did manage two draftee visit by TCU's DT Ross Blacklock prior to yesterday & Boise St. OT Ezra Cleveland today... stay tuned, GM's need to know if were playing with the new CBA $$ OR the old CBA?

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
    #13

    @gumby73 said:

    not so fast on that one now either...was listening to a former team doctor, Dr David Chow & he brought up a fair point... Most teams facility are now closing also... If a team wanted to visit with Trent Williams as a trade or any injury history FA.... would any of those paying teams not* want TW or Kirksey to pass their own team physical? The Browns did manage two draftee visit by TCU's DT Ross Blacklock prior to yesterday & Boise St. OT Ezra Cleveland today... stay tuned, GM's need to know if were playing with the new CBA $$ OR the old CBA?

    I think the facilities would be closed to the masses of players that would be coming in....but I would not think that doing a private workout, or a medical exam....where really there are only a few people involved and the risk is much less.

    Besides, it is not as if these teams don't have all the fucking information they really need on the players that are FAs.  Everyone of them has probably had at least 4 years playing in the league, and they have had months now to do their research.  How much could they really have done in the next 5-6 days?   Little to nothing.  If they have not completed their due diligence on a player by now, then they are inept.  

    And for the draftees,  fair enough the same thing.  They have been watching and scouting players since last August, if not years before that.  The only thing that may not happen are a few pro day workouts.  But they could still do a private workout...and a private medical exam  IMO.   The only issue there is putting them on a plane, and if the player is important enough....put them on Jimmy Haslam's private jet:

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  • Thanks China!   

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @orion said:

    Thanks China!   

    China has had over 3000 deaths.  Italy over 1000.  Iran nearly   400.  The US has now had 41  (France and Spain and S. Korea have had more than the US.).   But now, apparently China has it about licked...due to extreme measures taken by that country. 

    And perhaps the best hospital in the world, the Cleveland Clinic, is making strides  while being at the forefront of the fight against this virus. 

  • @browns149 said:

    No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

    And, yes, European football is soccer 

    Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

    NeroN Nero wrote on last edited by
    #15

    @the-gipper said:

    Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

    Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

    You're making me work too much. 

  • darren15D darren15 wrote on last edited by
    #16

    Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus

  • Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus

    IbleedbrownI Ibleedbrown wrote on last edited by
    #17

    @darren15 said:

    Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus

    Dopey probably has something to ease his pain and suffereing.

  • LBC mikeL LBC mike wrote on last edited by
    #18

    Combat sports in Cali are cancelled.

  • @the-gipper said:

    Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

    Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

    You're making me work too much. 

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by The Gipper
    #19

    @nero said:

    Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

    You're making me work too much. 

    It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name  is "soccer". 

    Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.

    In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years,  with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.

    In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.

    Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

  • @nero said:

    Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

    You're making me work too much. 

    It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name  is "soccer". 

    Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.

    In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years,  with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.

    In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.

    Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

    NeroN Nero wrote on last edited by Nero
    #20

    @the-gipper said:

    It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name  is "soccer". 

    Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.

    In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years,  with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.

    In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.

    Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

    Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron. Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something. Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term.