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A Case of the Mondays
Denver’s QB Emergency Isn’t Funny
As New Orleans rode to a 31–3 victory, the NFL has some thinking to do.
Cancel football. Cancel it now.
I intially argued for only cancelling college sports since college players aren’t paid. They shouldn’t be risking health and injury for our amusement with zero monetary reimbursement while ESPN, Fox, other networks, and NCAA executives make billions from the sideline. Professionals, on the other hand, do get paid (arguably too much) and have representation or leverage for negotiation.
But this season has been embarrassing.
In the first month of the college football season, the NCAA had cancelled or postponed 97 regulation games. Before the Big Ten actually took the field in October, 106 games had been cancelled. Last week, sixteen games were cancelled across college football. At one point, Minnesota had eight starters out with COVID-19 against Michigan, but per Big Ten rules, the game still went on.
