I think most of us have seen the news that it is very unlikely anyone in the CAA will play football this fall. Some of you on here know who I am and I felt like I needed to post this, may be a little lengthy and may ruffle some feathers but this is honestly how I feel about the current situation. Football needs to be played this fall regardless. It’s a way of life in our country and we can’t lose it, not only for financial reasons but for a few other reasons I’ll lay out here as well. Football funds many other sports and that’s a fact no one can get around, no football this fall will have a large impact not just on football players but all student athletes as a whole. Many players need football because it provides them with structure and a lot of those same players come from not so great backgrounds and at home situations. You really expect those guys to be able to have a normal life at home without the sport that gives them so much? In many cases football is the only sense of normalcy in their lives and being on a college campus not only provides them with a college education but also saves their lives. I encourage everyone here to read what the Iowa state athletic director wrote earlier this week about this topic. Of course I selfishly do want to see football this fall but I know football is much bigger than just me being a fan.
Now for some of my thoughts on the virus. I’m not gonna get into politics on here but the virus is completely overblown by the media and if you can’t see that than I don’t know what to tell you. Why were there not a ton of cases around the time of all the protests? Because they were all wearing masks? No. If the virus is as bad as everyone says than almost all of those protestors would have caught it. You really think all of them were wearing masks? Big hint they weren’t. If we can have mass protests OUTSIDE than we can have football. In my opinion many of the measures we are taking to protect ourselves against the virus are just things meant to make people feel more comfortable but they don’t actually do anything. I won’t get into it but there is a lot of literature by actual doctors about how masks themselves don’t really do all that much, even Doctor Fauci said so. Another example of a measure meant to make people feel more comfortable is some conferences going to conference only schedules. Wow I didn’t know we were dealing with such an advanced virus that can differentiate what conference college football players play in. Truly mind blowing stuff. Another thing I’ll say is that if we went out and mass tested people for the flu during flu season a lot of people would test positive but be asymptomatic. This virus is the same thing. The case number is not what we need to be worried about because we are all carrying all kinds of viruses all the time. The death rate is the number we need to be worried about and the death rate for this virus is pretty low. For people who complain that we don’t have enough tests and it’s too hard to get tested it’s really not. I had someone I work with test positive so I went and got tested the next day. I had to lie and say I had symptoms and got my results in less than an hour where I tested negative.
The last thing I’ll say is this; it shouldn’t be up to people in suits sitting in an office if we play football this fall. It should be up to the players because they’re the ones that this is really about. If they’re not comfortable playing then fine we won’t have football. However I guarantee you almost all college football players would answer yes to the question of whether they want to play or not and for that reason we should have football this fall. I hope I didn’t ruffle too many feathers with this lengthy post and I really hope it gives you all something to think about. Go Spiders!
Now for some of my thoughts on the virus. I’m not gonna get into politics on here but the virus is completely overblown by the media and if you can’t see that than I don’t know what to tell you. Why were there not a ton of cases around the time of all the protests? Because they were all wearing masks? No. If the virus is as bad as everyone says than almost all of those protestors would have caught it. You really think all of them were wearing masks? Big hint they weren’t. If we can have mass protests OUTSIDE than we can have football. In my opinion many of the measures we are taking to protect ourselves against the virus are just things meant to make people feel more comfortable but they don’t actually do anything. I won’t get into it but there is a lot of literature by actual doctors about how masks themselves don’t really do all that much, even Doctor Fauci said so. Another example of a measure meant to make people feel more comfortable is some conferences going to conference only schedules. Wow I didn’t know we were dealing with such an advanced virus that can differentiate what conference college football players play in. Truly mind blowing stuff. Another thing I’ll say is that if we went out and mass tested people for the flu during flu season a lot of people would test positive but be asymptomatic. This virus is the same thing. The case number is not what we need to be worried about because we are all carrying all kinds of viruses all the time. The death rate is the number we need to be worried about and the death rate for this virus is pretty low. For people who complain that we don’t have enough tests and it’s too hard to get tested it’s really not. I had someone I work with test positive so I went and got tested the next day. I had to lie and say I had symptoms and got my results in less than an hour where I tested negative.
The last thing I’ll say is this; it shouldn’t be up to people in suits sitting in an office if we play football this fall. It should be up to the players because they’re the ones that this is really about. If they’re not comfortable playing then fine we won’t have football. However I guarantee you almost all college football players would answer yes to the question of whether they want to play or not and for that reason we should have football this fall. I hope I didn’t ruffle too many feathers with this lengthy post and I really hope it gives you all something to think about. Go Spiders!