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Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
Fauci - now that's a reliable source for information about what the future holds...
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
It's not looking great so far, with dozens of players sick on almost every team...
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-22-2020 03:01 PM)holybovine Wrote: It's not looking great so far, with dozens of players sick on almost every team...
If one player, who has an undiagnosed condition, dies, then the program will be shut down for the season.
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eastisbest
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
...Football? We don't need no stinkin football... Wait, that's not how that goes.
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
NCAA FB averaged two deaths per season from 2000 to 2016.
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
Throw in the tension the country is facing right now and I don’t see football returning in the fall
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eastisbest
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
Historically, sports has been a thing to release tension and bring people together. With the controversy of the kneeling and whether or not someone is a cultural leader just because they play a game, millionaires who are yakking but sacrificing nothing, might not be so this time. It may just add to the overall dissonance people are feeling.
Hidden by the national events, the c-19 and the arising social awareness is an uptick in urban neighborhood violence that will completely change how kids see humanity. They will be war orphans, which in previous incarnations increased gang and anarchal activity.
There do not seem to be any MLK's rising to lead us out of it. No one seems to be advocating peaceful solutions based upon common values. It's all about power play.
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-22-2020 11:38 PM)Rocket_Fanatic Wrote: Throw in the tension the country is facing right now and I don’t see football returning in the fall
I find 1967-68 to be worse.
1967:
159 US racial riots, 85 dead, 11,000 arrested
11,368 US troops killed in Vietnam
1968:
There was a global pandemic
with 1million dead and 100,000+ in US.
Martin Luther King Jrs'. assassination,
corresponding riots, 45 dead, 20,000 arrests.
16,592 US troops killed in Vietnam.
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eastisbest
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-23-2020 07:55 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote: (06-22-2020 11:38 PM)Rocket_Fanatic Wrote: Throw in the tension the country is facing right now and I don’t see football returning in the fall
I find 1967-68 to be worse.
1967:
159 US racial riots, 85 dead, 11,000 arrested
11,368 US troops killed in Vietnam
1968:
There was a global pandemic
with 1million dead and 100,000+ in US.
Martin Luther King Jrs'. assassination,
corresponding riots, 45 dead, 20,000 arrests.
16,592 US troops killed in Vietnam.
Not looking for a competition or anything but uh... only half over this year is.
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Rocket_Fanatic
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-23-2020 02:59 PM)eastisbest Wrote: (06-23-2020 07:55 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote: (06-22-2020 11:38 PM)Rocket_Fanatic Wrote: Throw in the tension the country is facing right now and I don’t see football returning in the fall
I find 1967-68 to be worse.
1967:
159 US racial riots, 85 dead, 11,000 arrested
11,368 US troops killed in Vietnam
1968:
There was a global pandemic
with 1million dead and 100,000+ in US.
Martin Luther King Jrs'. assassination,
corresponding riots, 45 dead, 20,000 arrests.
16,592 US troops killed in Vietnam.
Not looking for a competition or anything but uh... only half over this year is.
Fair point. I guess I personally have nothing to base the tensions on because I’m younger than some of you old farts...
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eastisbest
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-23-2020 03:26 PM)Rocket_Fanatic Wrote: (06-23-2020 02:59 PM)eastisbest Wrote: (06-23-2020 07:55 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote: (06-22-2020 11:38 PM)Rocket_Fanatic Wrote: Throw in the tension the country is facing right now and I don’t see football returning in the fall
I find 1967-68 to be worse.
1967:
159 US racial riots, 85 dead, 11,000 arrested
11,368 US troops killed in Vietnam
1968:
There was a global pandemic
with 1million dead and 100,000+ in US.
Martin Luther King Jrs'. assassination,
corresponding riots, 45 dead, 20,000 arrests.
16,592 US troops killed in Vietnam.
Not looking for a competition or anything but uh... only half over this year is.
Fair point. I guess I personally have nothing to base the tensions on because I’m younger than some of you old farts...
Oh right, perspective. Ok, 68 for us was as tense as "The Decision" probably was for your generation but with fewer tears.
Boca didn't mention the Bobby Kennedy assasination or the Democratic Convention. Anarchy was a rising thing too. Media wasn't near as pervasive and I was a bit young to understand enough to be traumatized by it all but it seemed a never ending year of distraught. 9/11 certainly comparable.
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2020 04:36 PM by eastisbest.)
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
Difference today is we have a growing group of anarchists that want to take over the country but still have pizza delivered and cops at their beck and call when they need them
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RE: Football may not be played at all this year, Fauci warns
(06-25-2020 10:47 AM)indianasniff Wrote: Difference today is we have a growing group of anarchists that want to take over the country but still have pizza delivered and cops at their beck and call when they need them
Symbionese Liberation Army ring a bell? I don't know about the pizza delivery but generally higher educated, some rich, some middle class, mixed race. Charles Manson was a lot of fun. I seem to recall one of the Presidents was assassinated by an anarchist. Two of them tried to get Ford. Long history of it in this country.
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