508mikey
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Fade in June: There will be no college football
VN response: You’re crazy, Fade
Fade in early Aug: Schools won’t want to have the liability
VN response: You’re being ridiculous, Fade
Because people are ignorant and greedy.People STILL seemed confused about the nature of viral community spread. NO ONE is arguing that college athletes’ health is in imminent danger because of COVID. But by participating in a sport like football that increases the chance of athletes becoming infected, you thereby put the larger community at risk because of the ease of spread. It’s the non athletes that athletes will invariably spread it to that makes everyone nervous. Why can’t people understand this basic concept?
College Football as we know is over if there is no season. The NFL is going to take over Saturday and Sunday now, TV deals will be renegotiated, lots of revenue will be lost and people will fill their time with something else a certain % won't be back. They actually talked about it on the radio the other day that the NFL already has a 2nd schedule with Saturday/ Sunday dates and once they start theyre not giving Saturdays back. College Football can move to Friday nights, i guess or the spring but permanent change is coming.
Hope those who have cheered this thing on are happy, congrats go celebrate
I'm not dismissing the risk of heat stroke or any death. But, a player knows the risk of heat stroke, and he chooses to take it for himself and himself alone. He doesn't choose to take the risk for himself and his family members, friends, and anyone else he might expose to heat stroke.
It’s not only probable, it’s virtually a certainty. Warm weather didn’t abate it, as hoped, and any thoughts of it simply burning out seem futile at this point. This virus will be with us till either herd immunity is reached or an effective vaccine is distributed to enough of the population to stop it. Both those possibilities are still many months away.
Our choice is whether to continue with measures that were solely designed to avoid hospital collapse – something many people seem to have forgotten – or take greater calculated risks in order to re-normalize life and then deal with the consequences. Until a vaccine is widely in place we’re just playing dodge ball with a highly contagious virus and postponing the inevitable. What’s worse: dealing with a wildfire-like virus that presents a statistically low mortality rate, or dealing with the cumulative economic and health-related damage of continued lockdowns? There are no easy choices, and the course you’d prefer often reflects your personal or family situation. Or, too often, your political leanings, which is by far the most corrosive position in a matter like this.
People STILL seemed confused about the nature of viral community spread. NO ONE is arguing that college athletes’ health is in imminent danger because of COVID. But by participating in a sport like football that increases the chance of athletes becoming infected, you thereby put the larger community at risk because of the ease of spread. It’s the non athletes that athletes will invariably spread it to that makes everyone nervous. Why can’t people understand this basic concept?
Too much $$$ involved for that. Sports, albeit likely not CFB in 2020, is widely viewed as acceptable risk.Even a successful vaccine won't be highly effective. What then? Gotta let it cycle through. Nothing we can do about it. It'll be with us for multiple years regardless. We're going to not play sports for multiple years?
It's become political because unlike the several other countries that accepted the idea of staying home and wearing masks (none of whom give a sh** about our election, incidentally), we have a bunch of pandemic deniers who would rather blame political parties than change their own behavior even a little bit
I think most everyone who spends any amount of free time on VOLNATION is passionate about their love for the Vols. Some think there will be a season and some think there won’t be...both opinions in the grand scheme don’t matter...it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. We all want to vols to play and love them for all the reasons you mention.Fade, you and Dumbledorange and a few others might be right about this ... but you'll still be badly wrong.
See, for many of us Vols football is like a beloved family member. One we only get to see four months out of every year. We miss them when they're gone, and can't wait for them to come back.
And that's not just me anthropomorphizing the game. It really is like family, because it involves family. And good friends.. The Vols games give us excuses to get together on Saturdays, to get over that little spat we maybe had on Tuesday, to bridge distances that normally make it too inconvenient to gather, put aside whatever differences may exist, for a little while, to watch the game together. It's something we agree on, and agree strongly enough to overcome a host of little annoyances and inconveniences that otherwise litter life.
So you and others saying, over and over on these boards, "there isn't going to be any football in 2020" is like telling me I won't be able to see my daughter in 2020, she won't make it home for the holidays. It's not life-ending, but it hurts. It dims the light, reduces the joy of what's coming up in the next few months.
When you jump up and down about how it's looking more and more like you're right, you're acting like that fellow who annoys everyone by harping over and over again about how our lad should've been wearing a seat belt, even as we stand by his bedside and wonder if he can pull through.
You're just being a pain in the ass.
So...feel good about being right, I guess. You're still dead wrong.
I agree that people love their Vols. Some people just love self righteousness more.I think most everyone who spends any amount of free time on VOLNATION is passionate about their love for the Vols. Some think there will be a season and some think there won’t be...both opinions in the grand scheme don’t matter...it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. We all want to vols to play and love them for all the reasons you mention.
How convenient and easy for the powers-that-be. They’re in position to make the moves and call the shots, but they get to blame the citizenry for their decisions. It’s some sort of twisted justifiable homicide scheme. I shot you, but you forced me to. That’s the height of ruling class dishonesty and arrogance.
A recent study showed only 14% of Americans are completely unwilling to wear masks. And in almost all of those cases, that small percentage of people aren’t even allowed into any establishments where they can possibly infect someone else without a mask. So the entire “shut down society” crowd; politicians, political media, sports media and their sycophants, get to blame a small percentage of people not wearing masks on their catastrophic decisions. “Oh, we wanted college football and Church, but because Suzy and Billy in Mainstreet, USA didn’t wear a mask to the gas station, we just can’t do it.”
Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?
The liability issue is a big issue, not just for college football, but for all entities. Businesses keep waiting for our impotent Congress to pass some much-needed legislation, but they are too busy trying to make political points with the press (both sides).