No Other Sports Going On

[The Gipper]

It seems like every other sport that is taking place has been cancelled or suspended:

NBA/NHL/MLS   all suspend their season.

MLB has pushed back opening day at least 2 weeks.

NCAA Basketball Tournament.....cancelled, both men and women.   

Also all other winter/spring NCAA sports suspended

NASCAR driving without fans. 

Not sure about Golf.

Not sure about European soccer.  (who cares, right?)

But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

Also, while the big fan fest that has become the NFL draft may not take place.  The actual drafting of players can take place.  Just need  Facetime/Skype whatever, and computers.   Teams can still make their choices.

Only thing there is:  I assume that any of the "Pro Days" that may have not yet happened may not take place.  (though, maybe private workouts can)

[D Bone]

F1 cancelled its season opener in Melbourne Australia 

Supercross has cancelled its round 13 event at Seattle Seahawks Stadium..... and I will be shocked if they don't cancel all of their remaining races

CIF in CA cancelled boys and girls basketball playoff games

[Browns149]

The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 
 

Some European football is also being played 

[The Gipper]

2 minutes ago, Browns149 said:

The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 

But, are any fans allowed in on the course?
 

Some European football is also being played 

"European Football"    By that do you mean soccer?  Some call that "South American Football"  considering that Brazil and Argentina have been about the best at it. 

[Browns149]

No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

And, yes, European football is soccer 

[Nero]

1 minute ago, The Gipper said:

"European Football"    By that do you mean soccer?  Some call that "South American Football"  considering that Brazil and Argentina have been about the best at it. 

That's weird. Brazil has 5, Argentina 2 and Uruguay 2... But Italy and Germany each have 4, France 2 and Spain and Englan 1 each. 

European teams have been better overall for some time. Brazil has last south american Championship from 2002.

[gumby73]

4 hours ago, The Gipper said:

But.....you know what is NOT put on hold:

NFL Free Agency.    That is a game not played on the field/court/whatever.   It can be done with  email, fax,  news releases.  You don't need to gather people together for that.  So, that show goes on.

not so fast on that one now either...was listening to a former team doctor, Dr David Chow & he brought up a fair point... Most teams facility are now closing also... If a team wanted to visit with Trent Williams as a trade or any injury history FA.... would any of those paying teams not* want TW or Kirksey to pass their own team physical? The Browns did manage two draftee visit by TCU's DT Ross Blacklock prior to yesterday & Boise St. OT Ezra Cleveland today... stay tuned, GM's need to know if were playing with the new CBA $$ OR the old CBA?

[Richiswhere]

Last i read the XFL is still going to play but in empty stadiums.

 

You know Mcmahon has to be saying to himself "are you fucking kidding me"

[Tour2ma]

March Madness in front of empty stands was going to be too weird.

[gumby73]

4 hours ago, Browns149 said:

The Players Championship is still being played in golf. 

just now called off

27 minutes ago, Richiswhere said:

Last i read the XFL is still going to play but in empty stadiums.

You know Mcmahon has to be saying to himself "are you fucking kidding me"

Now Done for the Season... Mcmahon is paying all base salaries & benefits for 2020 season.. be back in 2021..  #thisisgunnasuck🤕 

[Orion]

Thanks China!   

[The Gipper]

5 hours ago, Browns149 said:

No fans at golf tourney starting tomorrow 

And, yes, European football is soccer 

Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

[The Gipper]

3 hours ago, gumby73 said:

not so fast on that one now either...was listening to a former team doctor, Dr David Chow & he brought up a fair point... Most teams facility are now closing also... If a team wanted to visit with Trent Williams as a trade or any injury history FA.... would any of those paying teams not* want TW or Kirksey to pass their own team physical? The Browns did manage two draftee visit by TCU's DT Ross Blacklock prior to yesterday & Boise St. OT Ezra Cleveland today... stay tuned, GM's need to know if were playing with the new CBA $$ OR the old CBA?

I think the facilities would be closed to the masses of players that would be coming in....but I would not think that doing a private workout, or a medical exam....where really there are only a few people involved and the risk is much less.

Besides, it is not as if these teams don't have all the fucking information they really need on the players that are FAs.  Everyone of them has probably had at least 4 years playing in the league, and they have had months now to do their research.  How much could they really have done in the next 5-6 days?   Little to nothing.  If they have not completed their due diligence on a player by now, then they are inept.  

And for the draftees,  fair enough the same thing.  They have been watching and scouting players since last August, if not years before that.  The only thing that may not happen are a few pro day workouts.  But they could still do a private workout...and a private medical exam  IMO.   The only issue there is putting them on a plane, and if the player is important enough....put them on Jimmy Haslam's private jet:

[The Gipper]

1 hour ago, Orion said:

Thanks China!   

China has had over 3000 deaths.  Italy over 1000.  Iran nearly   400.  The US has now had 41  (France and Spain and S. Korea have had more than the US.).   But now, apparently China has it about licked...due to extreme measures taken by that country. 

And perhaps the best hospital in the world, the Cleveland Clinic, is making strides  while being at the forefront of the fight against this virus. 

[Nero]

2 hours ago, The Gipper said:

Then spell it right....it is futbol, not football.

Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

You're making me work too much. 

[darren15]

Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus

[Ibleedbrown]

1 hour ago, darren15 said:

Disney has been closed now ......... Sneezy has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus

Dopey probably has something to ease his pain and suffereing.

[LBC mike]

Combat sports in Cali are cancelled.

[The Gipper]

7 hours ago, Nero said:

Fútbol is in Spanish, football is the English term, thus the correct one in this case. 

You're making me work too much. 

It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name  is "soccer". 

Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.

In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years,  with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.

In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.

Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

[Nero]

35 minutes ago, The Gipper said:

It is the English that invented the term "soccer"....so, the correct name  is "soccer". 

Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”.  For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we now primarily know of as “Football”.

In fact, in the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”.  Not only that, but the sport being referred to as “Soccer” preceded the first recorded instance of it being called by the singular word “Football” by about 18 years,  with the latter happening when it became more popular with the middle and lower class. When that happened, the term “Football” gradually began dominating over “Soccer” and the then official name “Association Football”.

In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England.   Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches.  They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.

Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common.  They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames.  Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”.  Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron. Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something. Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term. 

[The Gipper]

29 minutes ago, Nero said:

Thus the correct name for American Football is Grindiron.

No, it isn't.  No one ever has called it that.  Eurofags only made that up to distinguish real football from soccer. Americans certainly didn't invent that term (for the name of the game) ....and you would never find any American referring to the game by that name.   "Gridiron" is the name of the field the game is played on, not the name of the game.  It would be like calling soccer "Pitch"  (Isn't "pitch" what they call the field they play on?  Or do the Spanish have another term for that). Or calling basketball "Court", or baseball "Diamond". Or calling hockey "Rink".  

Nice smoke screen, Gip. Take your 0.0000000000002% of reason to try to fight back the fact that you are wrong about something.

But...I am NOT wrong.  Per that article, Soccer was the name given to that sport before the English ever called it football. The lower and middle class began calling it football later as a nickname,  kind of like we call basketball "Hoops".  

Because no matter how much you want to cover it with make up... Fútbol is only a Spanish term. 

Well, not only a Spanish term....it is now an American term that you gave to us that we now use. Like the French gave us the term "Lacrosse", but as far as I know, that is a game that is basically played in North America..though like most sports there are contingents on other continents.  FYI....Lacrosse is overtaking soccer in popularity in  many instances. 

https://laxcamps.com/the-rapid-rise-of-lacrosse-in-the-united-states/

 

[Nero]

9 minutes ago, The Gipper said:

 

Well, American tough boy. You were pretty much wrong, the term we use is football and we only indicate European Football when we are around 'muricans. 

Because actually our game is played 99% of the time with the foot, unlike American one. I know the story of the term soccer, and it makes sense that it spread around America because it was developed around the same time rugby and American Football spread there, BUT the rest of Europe (bear in mind England doesn't want anything to do with Europe) didn't embrace that term and ended up using the correct term, which is football, and that developed to the Spanish fútbol which is simply a phonetic adaptation to Spanish ortography. 

So don't worry, nobody really cares about that anymore, because you tried to be picky on somebody and it backfired. The end. 

[The Gipper]

1 hour ago, Nero said:

Well, American tough boy. You were pretty much wrong, the term we use is football and we only indicate European Football when we are around 'muricans. 

Because actually our game is played 99% of the time with the foot, unlike American one. I know the story of the term soccer, and it makes sense that it spread around America because it was developed around the same time rugby and American Football spread there, BUT the rest of Europe (bear in mind England doesn't want anything to do with Europe) didn't embrace that term and ended up using the correct term, which is football, and that developed to the Spanish fútbol which is simply a phonetic adaptation to Spanish ortography. 

So don't worry, nobody really cares about that anymore, because you tried to be picky on somebody and it backfired. The end. 

 Nothing backfired on me at all not at all. I know that the English use the word football or soccer never said he didn’t. It’s still soccer. And your Spanish phonetic adaptation is simply something that we also adapted. So everything I said is right   But that does not mean anything you said is wrong. No one not one person in this country calls that game gridiron. But we do call at soccer and we do call it futbol. If anyone here says football we all know what we are talking about. And you never answered the question what is the  Spanish word for the pitch. 

[D Bone]

[The Gipper]

2 minutes ago, D Bone said:

No 

[Ibleedbrown]

And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies. 

We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.

It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.

[mjp28]

16 minutes ago, Ibleedbrown said:

And pool is sometimes called billiards. Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies. 

We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.

It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.

This is serious if we did nothing it would overload our current hospital systems.  True most people would hardly notice getting it but it spreads like wildfire and the elderly sector is particularly vunerable. My wife is SO glad she retired two years ago from the hospital.

On the effect on all business particularly on smaller businesses will be significant.  Governments around the world are getting prepared with billions in necessary aid.

This is like preparing for a world war without the war.  Stay tuned.

[The Gipper]

3 hours ago, Ibleedbrown said:

And pool is sometimes called billiards.

Actually, pool and billiards, and snooker are different games, though they are played clearly on similar surfaces, similar balls, cues,  etc.  but they do have different rules. 

https://www.legacybilliards.com/blogs/resources/what-is-the-difference-between-billiards-pool-and-snooker

Now that we’ve settled that different sports can be called different things, l’ve never seen a reaction like this to an infectious disease. It’s almost like we’re treating it like the like a disease that turns people into zombies. 

We are not only cancelling sporting events, but also rock shows, antique shows, quilting gatherings and girl scout meetings. This is going to affect some serious bottom lines if it continues for a chunk of time.

It almost feels like a trial run, or a fire drill for when the real zombie apocalypse virus hits us.

Well....I don't know about zombies, but serious pandemics have hit this planet before.   The Black Plague wiped out 1/3rd of the population.   The Spanish Flu during WWI  (Thanks Nero)   killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did.   Don't forget AIDS, which killed  25 million worldwide, but of course people didn't care about that because it supposedly only killed "gay people".  Two that I know of from my high school class died of it.   

 

[Nero]

1 hour ago, The Gipper said:

The Spanish Flu during WWI  (Thanks Nero)   killed 500 million....many more than the war actually did. 

I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire. 

[ATOM]

7 minutes ago, Nero said:

I hope you know why it was called the Spanish Flu, because if not you're loading a gun ready to backfire. 

 

oh and nascar cancelled so did indy and forumula 1