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Dana Turner -> RE: General Vikes Talk (7/21/2020 10:17:08 PM)
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I get it, I know how many of us are Jonesing for football, it's been in our blood, for most of us, for many years at this time of the year. For many years I'd be going through two-a-days, weight lifting sessions and talking with parents about what I am expecting from their son. We'd all be hearing the latest from our favorite collegiate program, wondering if last years sophomore was going to be the stud we were hoping for and where we stand in the top 25. Our favorite pro team is getting ready for camp and we cant wait to see how it shapes out, but really, this year isn't going to be like any past year or future year for football, be it high school, NCAA, or pros, it simply wont and cant be. I would be so much happier if they just came out and said sorry folks, see you next year because what we are about to see will not resemble the game we have known to love.
I know, it's a downer to talk about no fans, piped in noise, strange silence at the games, but hey, it's all going to be a fact. For the first time ever, the coaches will be able to watch the substitution packages, send in their response and have an extra 15 seconds to react to the formation, all in complete silence. The audibles will be clear as a bell and adjustments just as swift. The scores will be high and they will somehow try to pass this off as football the way we know it. Never mind that there will be so much advertisement that you will be bringing up these products in your dreams, that's just the tip of the media blitz screen that will be passed of as the new norm. Play by Play guys will be talking about how they heard the signal and just knew what play was coming, etc..
We won't be able to go to the Friday night games and watch the local boys try to break that damn loosing streak or perhaps see them go undefeated. Nope, 2020 should be just a write off, just call it what it is. It may go down as the worst year in modern history, at least the history of those living through it. It's not anybodies fault, well, except maybe the Chinese who invented the damn thing and didn't keep it contained, but really, that doesn't even matter either, because it's about now and now sucks. People we know and love have suffered and died, I know both groups myself, and it's just what we have to deal with.
What I find so disgusting is the greed. Man kind can not simply say, "hey, we will see you in 2021 when this damn thing is under control", instead of trying to pass a substandard product out to the public, just to make money. It's stupid, I say stupid because for the next 10 years after this, we will be hearing the proverbial "well, besides the COVID year of 2020, which really doesn't count", just like the strike years way back when. Greed folks, it's still the center of our universe, even when we can't figure out if it safe to send our kids to school. Really, this is how we lead the way, this is how we show our children how we handle a tough situation like this.
There should be no Baseball, Hockey, Basketball or Football. I don't mind golf because the fans just make me wince most of the time anyway, so many don't know how to behave. But really, we can live without the sports, we have been for months now, we could do it all the way to a vaccine and a world cleansing of this menace. What they are going to try to pass off as the game of football is only going to skew what we thought the game was meant to be, about us, the fans, we are the ones that made the game swing in our teams favor, without that, well, it's Madden stuff with live players, yawn!
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