Roundball Shaman
Four-Star Recruit
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.
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.
