Externalities! They also should cancel the impact of NOT playing football.

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Sep 16, 2020
10:10:46am

lilpenny All-American

Externalities! They also should cancel the impact of NOT playing football.

For example, UAB had a player who was at home because camp was canceled, he lived in a very poor area and was accidentally shot and killed. If camp had been going on, he would be alive. There is a cost to 15-24 year olds NOT playing football. Idle hands are the devil's workshop. You will see more depression, overweight teens, drug use, etc.,

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lilpenny

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Every year there are 12.2 deaths attributable to football at the HS and college

BYUMizzou

9/16/20 7:12am

I think you made a good point. I also think you shouldn't insinuate that

Blueto

9/16/20 7:14am

It's a point that has been reported in the news. The family immediately came

BYUMizzou

9/16/20 7:17am

Then they walked it back further and said it was no longer attributable to COVID

BYUMizzou

9/16/20 7:18am

Again, I think you have a valid point. One unconfirmed covid19 death. It just

Blueto

9/16/20 7:27am

The way I worded it was probably affected in part by another post in a different

BYUMizzou

9/16/20 10:51am

Is that the guy whose team hadn’t practiced so to even call him a football player was misleading. His death had zero to

9/16/20 8:17am

You miss the point...it isn't that the athlete themselves will die, it is that

doctorcoug

9/16/20 8:20am

So? We're in the middle of a casedemic right now. It's no longer a pandemic.

BYUMizzou

9/16/20 8:30am

No pool of transmission is larger than the Taco Bell’s and mcDonalds with their

Pretorian

9/16/20 9:21am

Seems like having the same 100 guys on an outdoor practice field for a majority

dazcoug

9/16/20 11:26am

If only people would wear masks, we could play football.

UNLVcougar

9/16/20 8:57am

If only...

Pretorian

9/16/20 9:18am

Externalities! They also should cancel the impact of NOT playing football.

lilpenny

9/16/20 10:10am

Making rational arguments about risks just makes the worriers heads explode.

9/16/20 11:11am

it's not about risk to players, players are part of a community

Hill4Heisman

9/16/20 11:13am

Better to have them in a structured environment where they are accountable to

dazcoug

9/16/20 11:43am

True. Football players are probably the strictest at being safe

Hill4Heisman

9/16/20 1:04pm

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