I have a feeling Trump will be desperate to see NFL and college football return in the fall

[Dream Girl]

If football returns, it will signal normality to his base. If not, they will be pissed no end.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. While the data is pretty thin, the NFL generally has the least partisan fan base.

[Dream Girl]

2. Less partisan than basketball?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Yes

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]

11. Football fans are generally evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, in the aggregate.

NBA fans lean Democrat. NASCAR fans lean Republican. NFL fans pretty much break even.

[FarPoint]

19. Basketball opening will be a huge catastrophe...

The crowds, the contact sport is intense....players, fans...lives will be lost.

[Jamastiene]

8. A LOT of my friends, all Democrats or Democratic Socialists, are football fans.

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]

3. It will return and the cases on the teams will go up, that will be a disaster. There's not too many

... 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]

4. I'm assuming they would quick test them before each game?

[Dream Girl]

7. And I know first hand about the whore thing from when I was a cute young cocktail waitress

At a fancy hotel. Just sayin’.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. I could imagine the SEC conference...

... 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]

13. If you heard Lamar Alexander at the Senate hearing at the beginning of the week

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]

6. All the more reason the NFL and college sports managers should postpone the beginning

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]

10. I think you are more or less correct

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]

12. And football is such a social sport. People tailgate, have gatherings at homes, bars etc.

It will leave a gaping hole in people’s lives if their no football in the fall. Even people who are necessarily fans enjoy the social aspects of football. Not me, I’m more of a premier league soccer fan.

[FarPoint]

14. He is on a " Binge" now...a high for him.

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]

15. I think you are right. It's going to get bad. We're fucked.

[FarPoint]

16. Here is a little clip...

Trumps America for the Fourth of July 2020...

Opened up America to COVID-19...

[Dream Girl]

18. That's about the size of it

[virgogal]

17. I don't get your point.

[FarPoint]

20. I see the Virus being represented by the Aliens...

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]

21. I tell you what. It's going to be very difficult missing THIS:

&t=19s

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.