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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have a feeling Trump will be desperate to see NFL and college football return in the fall
If football returns, it will signal normality to his base. If not, they will be pissed no end.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,328 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Basketball fans tend strongly liberal democrat! It's not ridiculous, like 7 out of 8, but a year or two back in was around 60%.
The age demographic for baseball skews high, so there is likely a bias toward Rs.
Football is somewhere in the middle. Pro football that is.
College football is highly regional, so the bigger fan bases may come from redder states.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,328 posts)NBA fans lean Democrat. NASCAR fans lean Republican. NFL fans pretty much break even.
FarPoint
(12,351 posts)The crowds, the contact sport is intense....players, fans...lives will be lost.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I don't think it would make much of a difference as far as Trump's base, specifically. If they don't let the football season start on time, I think fans will be frustrated on both sides of the aisle.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... There's not too many sports where gangs of big humans lean against each other and breath really hard like football.
Throw in the fact that unless they're married they're whores
Yeah, halfway through the season half the squads catch the virus and people are deflated.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)At a fancy hotel. Just sayin.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... playing games, even if the other Power-5 conferences cancel their games.
They could probably find some lower-division schools to play out-of-conference, then declare the SEC Championship game is the national title game with ESPN's approval.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It was pretty easy (for me) to tell when he was asking the witnesses about timelines and relaxing lockdown rules that he was practically humming "Rocky Top."
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)of the season. If we don't get to have baseball, then football fans can wait....to get rid of Trump. We all need to do our patriotic duty.
Don't kill me. I'm only joking.
But, we still might not to get to have baseball this year.
Of course, McDonald's could have been doing its patriotic duty by using the old trans-fat oil they used to use with Trump's food, but they didn't.... Yes, I suggested it to them, openly.
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)It's not just his base. Football is not partisan. It has to do with misery levels. People will be less happy without sports.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)It will leave a gaping hole in peoples lives if their no football in the fall. Even people who are necessarily fans enjoy the social aspects of football. Not me, Im more of a premier league soccer fan.
FarPoint
(12,351 posts)We can't stop it...the greed is intoxicating...Just try and prepare yourself, friends and family to be vigilant with masks, self quarantine, hand sanitizer and hand washing..etc ..The COVID-19 Tsunami is coming...Oh, stock up on food for family and pets, other domestic needs now ..
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)FarPoint
(12,351 posts)Trumps America for the Fourth of July 2020...
Opened up America to COVID-19...
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)FarPoint
(12,351 posts)The rooftop gathers are the tRumpsters like at the state houses protesting...daring and taunting logical reasoning...this is dangerous.....now you are, " toast"...or you have COVID_19...all of ya...
Opening up the streets of America now...by July 4th...chaos, hysteria, ...hunker down stuff.
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)If you haven't been to Baton Rouge on a Saturday night then you need to put it on your bucket list. It's otherworldly.
Fuck you, coronavirus.