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Forget COVID-19 second wave, tsunami coming? (Original Post) Miigwech Jun 2020 OP
Saw my doctor yesterday, he said he and his colleagues think this fall will make current situation BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #1
If people are packed into stadiums, screaming as usual... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #2
Won't happen. Drunken Irishman Jun 2020 #5
A bit off topic perhaps, but I was at Michigan in '84... caraher Jun 2020 #3
From the Big House to every safeinOhio Jun 2020 #6
The conference our cal state university is in may push football to spring. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #4

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
1. Saw my doctor yesterday, he said he and his colleagues think this fall will make current situation
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 05:03 PM
Jun 2020

look like it was just the appetizer menu.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
2. If people are packed into stadiums, screaming as usual...
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 05:04 PM
Jun 2020

... then this country is in BIG trouble this Fall.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
5. Won't happen.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:16 PM
Jun 2020

AS much as we like to piss on sports, they're often ahead of the curve on this shit.

Just look at how fast the NBA, NHL and MLB shut things down after one player, on just one team (Rudy Gobert of the NBA's Utah Jazz) tested positive. Once that hit, everything came to a grinding halt and in fact, it was the sports world that forced the business world to change.

The NBA suspended its season on March 11th.

The NHL a day later.

Major movie chains didn't close their theaters until six days later on March 17th.

I worry about movie theaters and Trump rallies and these protests.

I don't worry about sports.

They absolutely will keep crowds out and play in front of empty arenas/stadiums.

caraher

(6,278 posts)
3. A bit off topic perhaps, but I was at Michigan in '84...
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 05:16 PM
Jun 2020

I didn't remember an orchestrated wave happening like that, but there it is on video. But what's more interesting is that Michigan stole the wave from University of Washington fans, and then it spread to Tiger Stadium in that 1984 World Series season. The Washington wave was more of a section-by-section cheerleader-led thing, whereas the Michigan Stadium version was - well, what you see, and what seemed to take off in other US stadiums.

I've also seen it referred to as a "Mexican wave;" I think it probably dates back even earlier than this among football (soccer) fans there. I've seen 1968 claimed though the '86 World Cup seems to be when international football fans first noticed it.

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