Will There Be a 2020 Football Season?

[Jason Sitoke]

11 minutes ago, Rochelobe said:

As bad as a winter with no sports would be, imagine  how much worse it would have been 40 years ago before the internet, streaming, etc.

 

We can just make this thread our official sport for 2020!  Whoever scores the most smileys wins!

[Rochelobe]

11 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said:

Can't believe I needed to use the /s

 

Are so many people that humorless?

[Jason Sitoke]

1 minute ago, Rochelobe said:

Can't believe I needed to use the /s

 

Are so many people that humorless?

Sorry. Had I known, I would’ve responded with a humorous gif

[nic]

1 hour ago, southernoregonhusker said:

I thought it was well established that it originated in Kansas and that Spain got the name because they had a free press who reported the virus while other countries were hush hush because of WWI. 

Ha. No it is not well established and good luck tracing it in 1918. In the US, it supposedly started in the spring of 1918 in a military camp during WWI when troops had been deployed in Europe since June of 1917. What source do you have that says it is a well established fact of origin?

[Rochelobe]

49 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said:

Sorry. Had I known, I would’ve responded with a humorous gif

That was humorous?

 

Hmm.    Yeah. ok.

[knapplc]

2 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

 

Yes my criticism of the fake lock downs always comes back to the dearth of logic. In my state I may not enter a library, community college hall, or a gym.  However I can (but won't) go to a casino or a crowded unmasked restaurant patio.

Which state is this?

[kansas45]

55 minutes ago, nic said:

Ha. No it is not well established and good luck tracing it in 1918. In the US, it supposedly started in the spring of 1918 in a military camp during WWI when troops had been deployed in Europe since June of 1917. What source do you have that says it is a well established fact of origin?

 

Camp Funston in Kansas that was located at Fort Riley. But has been traced back to Haskell County Kansas.

Both contemporary epidemiological studies and lay histories of the pandemic have identified the first known outbreak of epidemic influenza as occurring at Camp Funston, now Ft. Riley, in Kansas. But there was one place where a previously unknown – and remarkable – epidemic of influenza occurred.

Haskell County, Kansas, lay three hundred miles to the west of Funston. There the smell of manure meant civilization. People raised grains, poultry, cattle, and hogs. Sod-houses were so common that even one of the county's few post offices was located in a dug-out sod home. In 1918 the population was just 1,720, spread over 578 square miles

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

https://ksww1.ku.edu/tag/camp-funston/

 

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health [2018] pp. 219–229

The first wave appeared in the spring of 1918, in a well-documented outbreak at a military base in the farm state of Kansas. From there it spread with American troops throughout the nation and overseas on crowded trains and troop ships. It moved quickly through the congested military camps of Europe and on to east and south Asia, infecting all sides of the conflicts without regard for nationality

 

 

 

 

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

14 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Which state is this?

 

Arizona, where there is a very strong Husker presence.  While the gov decisively shut down the gyms, he punted on high school football to the school districts. 

[nic]

21 minutes ago, kansas45 said:

 

Camp Funston in Kansas that was located at Fort Riley...

 

So you are saying that the US farted and blamed it on Spain. That is not a qustion. No need to respond. 

[UniversalMartin]

2 hours ago, Rochelobe said:

Can't believe I needed to use the /s

 

Are so many people that humorless?

Yes, yes we are not

[Jason Sitoke]

1 hour ago, Rochelobe said:

That was humorous?

 

Hmm.    Yeah. ok.

[southernoregonhusker]

6 hours ago, nic said:

So you are saying that the US farted and blamed it on Spain. That is not a qustion. No need to respond. 

Kansas Flu, baby.  

 

Rutgers is reporting 26 players testing positive.  For you guys with past Huskers seasons on DVD, fire 'em up.  That's going to be the only games you see this season.

[Ulty]

I thought I had come to terms with the idea of having no football this fall. But yesterday, I saw Sam Adams Octoberfest at the store, and I was sad all over again. There is nothing better than drinking one or two of those while enjoying a game. 

[GamingGlen]

3 hours ago, southernoregonhusker said:

Rutgers is reporting 26 players testing positive.  For you guys with past Huskers seasons on DVD, fire 'em up.  That's going to be the only games you see this season.

 

My first thought was let them play foosball, but that does require 4, 2 from each team, to be in close proximity of each other.

 

So, let them go bowling.  Each player gets his own lane, one team on the left lanes, other team on the right lanes.  Cheerleaders can be cheering in the back. 

[teachercd]

18 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm actually preparing myself for college sports to never be what they used to be.....at least for a very long time (years).  And....like you said, it's more than just the Covid issue.

Yeah, I agree.  I think you are also going to see a big shift in attitudes from a lot of higher ed people that are now actually starting to accept the fact that sports pay for their 6 figure salary to "teach" 12 hours a week.

1 hour ago, Ulty said:

I thought I had come to terms with the idea of having no football this fall. But yesterday, I saw Sam Adams Octoberfest at the store, and I was sad all over again. There is nothing better than drinking one or two of those while enjoying a game. 

I was just telling my friend that I saw that in the store.