Will There Be a 2020 Football Season?

Chances of a 2020 season?

  • Full 12 Game Schedule

    Votes: 20 36.4%

  • Shortened Season

    Votes: 13 23.6%

  • No Games Played

    Votes: 22 40.0%
  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
knapplc said:
Jamain Stephens just passed away. The other I was thinking of is Brady Feeney, but he only had complications from the virus, he didn't die.
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I had not heard of him. Stand corrected but one out of 50,000?  Just a guess on the number but it is a lot with so many sports and leagues.  Bound to be a few with asthma or heart murmur or something surely.  Maybe the requires physical needs to prohibit any comorbidity issues if Drs feel a special risk is present.   Same with a coach or other staff person.  Nothing to stop all sports at this point.   

There is probably a greater risk to athletes from a car, bus or plane ride to or from a game than the virus.  We dont stop sports because an entire team might die in a plane crash God forbid!   

 
84HuskerLaw said:
I had not heard of him. Stand corrected but one out of 50,000?  Just a guess on the number but it is a lot with so many sports and leagues.  Bound to be a few with asthma or heart murmur or something surely.  Maybe the requires physical needs to prohibit any comorbidity issues if Drs feel a special risk is present.   Same with a coach or other staff person.  Nothing to stop all sports at this point.   

There is probably a greater risk to athletes from a car, bus or plane ride to or from a game than the virus.  We dont stop sports because an entire team might die in a plane crash God forbid!   
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And per the @FrantzHardySwag post, apparently Jamain Stephens didn't even die of Covid, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 
knapplc said:
And per the @FrantzHardySwag post, apparently Jamain Stephens didn't even die of Covid, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Well it remains possible he did die with covid certainly.  Sad story certainly.  How many players die from a baseball hit to the head?  A heat stroke?   A heart attack?  etc.

I just dont see the risk being that great as to suffer the loss of all the benefits of sports.   Everything in life comes with risks - just getting out of bed or taking a shower or taking most ‘safe’ medicines or eating a chicken wing or lettuce salad can be deadly.   

 
DevoHusker said:
I read yesterday that he had not been on campus since February, and their football team was not practicing or playing this fall. Hard to attribute his passing to football, regardless. 

Sad when a young person dies no matter the reason. 
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That's true. What's significant about it (if it was a Covid-related death), is that he's a young man, in the age range of the guys playing football, and it would show they are susceptible to complications, sometimes morbid complications, from the virus. 

It's stuff like this, and what happened to Feeney, that is keeping the decision-makers in the Big Ten from green-lighting football. I'm not saying they're right, I'm just saying that's what's holding them up.

 
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