Roundball Shaman Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 With more college programs and conferences cancelling their seasons, the question to ask now is what is the long-term future of football in a Covid World. People are beginning to realize that Covid may never go away. It may always be with us as a daily plague affecting everything we do for a very long time to come. Some people are placing their faith in a vaccine. But vaccines don’t work against a virus that mutates like Covid does. It is a moving target, always one step ahead of our attempts to get at it. It sits all around us and just laughs at us. Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom many believe is some kind of scientific guru worthy of his own trading card picture set, was just quoted about the awaited-for vaccine: “The chances of it being 98% effective is not great”. They are shooting for some percentage of it working for some people, but they have no real idea. But they don’t want you to know that they have no real idea. As for football, how does anybody play football in a world where Covid doesn’t go away? You can’t play in a bubble. You can’t have hundreds (or for the pros thousands) of guys jammed in together somewhere for long periods of time and think that would work. You can’t play with masks on without suffocating. You can’t “Social Distance!” You can only go so long with “These Extraordinary Times!” and “These Challenging Times!” and all these other blaring characterizations they keep throwing at us. Players and coaches can’t live for many months apart from their family or can they be told to forfeit trying to live some kind of normal life. Colleges can’t live without those big-time dollars coming in to feed the scholastic machine. Businesses that rely on football are slowly withering away. The dominoes will fall and everything is up for grabs. Have we seen our last football game for the next two years? Five years? Forever? And if we have, how does the State of Nebraska and all of Husker Nation deal with that part of our soul being ripped out? You really have to wonder if football has a future in a Covid world. 1 3 Link to comment
OH HSKR FAN Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 I think attitudes with this will change with time. Main stream media can start by not sensationalizing it. 1 2 Link to comment
TonyStalloni Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 The world has survived flu in it's various forms for probably thousands of years or more. It isn't bubonic plague. The virus doesn't fly out of someones mouth, go down the block and around the corner and fly to the next county. Some kids will chose to play football and others may not. High school football may become a club sport where only those who can afford it will play. College football may become a minor league pro sport without much affiliation to universities. Football in some form will survive. 1 Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 There will never be another football game played anywhere anytime at any level. We’ll all be dead in a few months anyway. 2 2 Link to comment
Toe Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Does this thread have a Huskerboard future, or do we already have enough threads on this topic? 2 Link to comment
Toe Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, TonyStalloni said: It isn't bubonic plague. Indeed, modern medicine has effective treatments for bubonic plague, but not for COVID-19. 3 1 Link to comment
Toe Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Roundball Shaman said: Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom many believe is some kind of scientific guru worthy of his own trading card picture set, was just quoted about the awaited-for vaccine: “The chances of it being 98% effective is not great”. They are shooting for some percentage of it working for some people, but they have no real idea. But they don’t want you to know that they have no real idea. Right, Fauci doesn't want you to know that the vaccine might not be totally effective, which is why he just told you that the vaccine might not be totally effective. 4 1 Link to comment
Slow yer Roll Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 After nov 3rd its relevance in every day life will wane to a level similar to aids. 4 3 Link to comment
Decked Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Covid future: eradicated by vaccine Link to comment
lo country Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Decked said: Covid future: eradicated by vaccine Never going to happen IMHO.......Flu vaccine is about 40% effective....And that is with some of that 40% getting it, but "not as bad". Truly, I have no idea what is true anymore. It has been so politicized, misinformation, bad information, made up info etc......Not gonna lie, the thought of no football SUCKS. 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, Snowbird said: If it was up to Democrats football would have been over years ago. Stupid thread.. next This is why we can't have nice things... 5 2 Link to comment
WyoHusker56 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 I knew opening this thread was a bad idea and it was actually worse than I expected. 2 3 Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 14 hours ago, OH HSKR FAN said: Main stream media can start by not sensationalizing it. "Things happened that I didn't like and the news covered it" is not "sensationalizing" the news. 1 2 1 Link to comment
Enhance Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Similar threads are already discussing this exact topic in the football forum. Please continue those conversations there. Link to comment
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