Report: The Big Ten will not play football this fall

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  1. jay runner

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    If Putin's daughter lives we'll know the CDC was playing politics.:)
     
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    I can't speak for thim but I think they fear lawsuits if someone gets infected. They fail to see that the revenue generated by the football team will cover the lawsuits in spades. Athletes are safer in the controlled environment of a football team than they would be at home.
     
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    It is the politicans who are playing politics, not the CDC.
     
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    Right.:)
     
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    No it wont the money from football covers sports that dont get much funding from fans.
    Controlled environments?? Baseball with adults is having problems you think college guys wont be going to parties...
     
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    Sorry...did you suggest that your point is that the virus itself is politically motivated?
     
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    You think a football team is a controlled environment?
     
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    More controlled than going out on a friday night date. Frequent testing, surrounded by tested people etc. etc.
     
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    What friday night dates are you going that are less controlled than a minimum of 22 large dudes fully engaged in physical contact for hours on end?
     
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    Ok then what is the mortality rate for 25 and younger.....
     
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    Do you have any idea how many of those players on full scholarships could not afford to go to school without those games?

    Careful someone will call you racist.
     
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    Any friday night date that is not just home watching TV. The 22 large dudes are also tested and surrounded by tested people. The risk is no more than crossing a street.
     
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    Wait you think these kids are playing sports because "Conservatives" "divert" them? Can you give Black people any credit for free will or do you think everything they do is because of the white man..

    Never seen so much racist projection in my life!
     
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    I haven't seen any standardized policies regarding how often these players and their support staff will be tested, but it is just patently absurd to claim that a sport where large men collide, full force, into each other is more controlled than a friday night date.
     
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    It's just a protest and a counter protest and it's all outside. No risk at all.
     
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    Makes just as much sense as watching an NBA game where the players are not wearing masks but those same players are not if they are not playing.

    Could have sworn college football had helmets with face shields as a saw an article with a player complaining that they could not "****ing breath" with it on...
    /ftw.usatoday.com/2020/08/lsu-football-covid-face-shield-cant-breath
     
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    There will likely be another surge late October and if Biden wins it will drop like an elevator with a broken cable.
     
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    With Biden's ( Radical leftists actually in control) leadership it will be the Flu again.
     
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    The NBA players live in a bubble where they are not allowed to leave the area even when they aren't playing.
     
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    I truly hate this ****ing talking point.

    The virus is deadly and it is real. Stop pretending that this **** isn't killing hundreds of thousands of Americans or that it will magically disappear.
     
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    And they have no issue being near each other without masks when they are playing.. Strange that...
     
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    You’re right. Biden and his team will take it seriously and begin to lead the country out of the trump virus quagmire.
     
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    A phrase without any meaning.

    What won't be going away:
    - The disease
    - People dying
    - The need to social distance
    - The need to wear masks
    - People getting life long conditions, including heart & lung disease, diminished brain function and a whole host of other problems.

    What will go away? Hopefully, Trump worshipers will shut up about it being a hoax, since it didn't disappear on election day.
     
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    There is mounding evidence that young adults are getting very sick and ending up with lifelong conditions.
     
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    Strange, how?

    People who don't have the disease are in an isolated bubble with other people who don't have the disease. One thing that we know for sure - you can't catch the disease from someone who doesn't have it!
     
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