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The Fighting Irish belong with the Red Sox, the Yankees, Taylor Swift, and any other property that is artificially relevant because the media wastes so much time telling you how relevant they are.  Notre Dame is too chickenshit to join a real conference.  Rudy,   f....k Rudy,  Goddamn that movie for making me root for Notre Dame for three seconds. In real life, people like Rudy are really annoying. No one wants to hang out with the annoying kid who treats Friday practice like it’s World War III.     F'UM  B U C K Y  

@Pikes Peak posted:

Gonna be a long year or so (I hope it is ONLY a year),  a working vaccine a (and everyone taking it) is our only hope.  We also need this virus to remain stable and not morphing, a virus that keeps changing would be hard to deal with.

Yes, as you imply you'll still have to deal with idiot anti-vaxxers. There are actually large numbers of people that believe Bill Gates is going to bankroll vaccine development so he can implant microchips in people's bodies to monitor them. 

I haven't followed all the vaccine developments in detail but plan to read up on them more, but I'm guessing the vaccines will use epitopes (the part of the viral protein that your immune system will end up making antibodies to) that are highly conserved and required for viral entry into the cell. That way, if a viral variant emerged that the vaccine no longer protected against, it would simultaneously evolve to a less virulent and/or infectious form. There are some caveats to that as well, but there are people who have spent decades doing this type of thing involved with this. If the politicians stay out of it and let them do their thing, it will be safe and effective when it finally gets rolled out. They can't work any faster than they are right now at this. Best guess is probably January-February next year. 

Yes, as you imply you'll still have to deal with idiot anti-vaxxers. There are actually large numbers of people that believe Bill Gates is going to bankroll vaccine development so he can implant microchips in people's bodies to monitor them. 



Morons, that is what they are.  It's Satan himself that is implanting microchips and he is trying to distract us with the Bill Gates red herring



I know they are working through this on the fly, but if they play 12-14 games they'll need to start in February to get done by May/June.

So, are they going to play games outdoors in the Upper Midwest in February?

How will the bowl games and the BCS playoffs work? Are you going to have those occur in July and then get right back to practice in August for September games? 

The most logical thing to do would be for both the NFL and college football to adopt a bubble approach.  How can you do that in college football?   Not easy as these are student athletes.   Spring football could be an option but they would need to reduce the schedule to maybe 8-10 games.  Perhaps just have each team play their conference opponent and then 2-3 from the other division based on rankings or how they finished last year? 

As for the NFL, come hell or high water they will play because teams would still get 2/3 of their revenue through TV and honestly what else do people have to watch?   With the NBA likely to not start β€œnext” season until the holiday timeframe the NFL could be all alone and man that would be a ratings bonanza. 

That being said, I just can’t see how these teams will stay healthy if they aren’t locked down like the NBA and NHL.   Unlike baseball, they can’t just play doubleheader games to make up for missed games.   

 

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