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Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BitterYoungMatador2, Apr 2, 2020.

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  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    If they plunge ahead and hold it in the face of considerable public evidence to
    the contrary, they'll be dead meat in negligence lawsuits resulting from infections among attendees.
     
    Starman, Apr 24, 2020
    #601
  2. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    They won't. They just need an outside force, most likely the City of Atlanta, to say "Nope. Public health risk, shut it down" so that their insurance will kick in and cover all the various contracts that they have. If that does not happen they'll probably go bankrupt. It's a once a year event, no way to recoup or reschedule.

    I mean, seriously, everywhere you go in that con, the place is packed. When I describe conditions as "belly to back", it isn't an exaggeration. Any open elevator gets packed full. Escalator hand rails are touched by tens of thousands of people per day. Food court, long lines. More than that, people come from all over. A volunteer I worked with flew in every year from Seattle.

    70,000 people crammed together for four days. Nope.
     
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    Neutral Corner, Apr 24, 2020
    #602
  3. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    I have a feeling football starts back up right after Christmas.

    A buddy of mine who knows shit like this thinks thinks we will be able to treat COVID enough to get the death rate down to .2%, which is just about where we are with the flu, by fall.

    He also said having a vaccine in 18 months is very, very optimistic, so that not the horse to get on right now.
     
    Scout, Apr 25, 2020
    #603
  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    There is no way to know when a vaccine is discovered. None. Might as well draw numbers out of a hat. Eighteen months sounds doable without giving false hope of "any day now", but it's still just a number.

    I suspect that there will be a lot of new cases before Christmas that kills that idea.
     
    Neutral Corner, Apr 25, 2020
    #604
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    There's just no telling about any of it.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Apr 25, 2020
    #605
  6. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I've become convinced by how things have gone the past month: No high school football season. No lower-level college football season (Divisions II and III, probably no FCS). They will move hell and high water to have a semblance of an FBS season (nine conference games) because the money is too important, but that likely will be a winter/spring situation.
     
    Last edited: Apr 26, 2020
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2020
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  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Starting football season in the north in wintry conditions with a respiratory virus still loose in the population... I dunno.

    I could see having an 8-game spring season in March-April-May with "spring bowls" on Memorial Day. Then a couple months off and presumably back to a relatively normal fall season.

    Stadium capacity will be capped at about 30 percent of listed maximum.
     
    Starman, Apr 25, 2020
    #607
  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah, probably more doable. Screws up the draft, though many might not play in the shortened season and just get ready for the draft. Then, do you come right back and start up three months later? I'm sure everything is being considered.

    Then again, the presidents of the universities of Oklahoma and Nebraska said yesterday they will have in-person classes this fall.

    It's going to be a hodgepodge.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2020
    #608
  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

     
    HanSenSE, Apr 25, 2020
    #609
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    How do you play/practice basketball 6 feet apart?
     
    MileHigh, Apr 25, 2020
    #610
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Zone defense.
     
    HanSenSE, Apr 25, 2020
    #611
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  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I am old enough to remember when the draft was 10 days after the Super Bowl. The NFL can cope, even if it doesn't want to.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Apr 25, 2020
    #612
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