Are you going back to the sports stadiums when they open?

[Morpheus 02]

So on a few movie threads, such as for WOnder WOman, people were saying how the industry "needed" Covid, and that direct-to-streaming wil lbe pretty much how mvies will be released nowadays.

I can see that for mid-to-low budget movies... but blockbusters like WOnder WOman, seems like there is still a huge place for people to go to see them.

But we will see about that.

But that negative talk made me think about Sports. While sports can be played without a live audience; indeed, most people who see a game on TV or even the web as opposed to seeing it live... i know there is a huge part the audience can play in the game, both for the players as well as the TV audience.

It seems like all the reasons a person would stop going to the theater would apply to going to a live sports game.

So how would it affect you?

 

[Spider]

Absolutely not. I haven't been in crowded venues like that since the 80s. I don't do crowds, Pandemic World or not.

 

[Tosk]

Back?

 

[1001001]

YES!

I usually travel home (Los Angeles) for a USC game and a Rams game once a year. I was supposed to go to Dallas for the USC/Alabama game this year, and to LA for the Rams/Patriots game at our shiny new stadium.

I was also had tickets to the Freeway Series in Anaheim in July. Blergh.

I also miss concerts terribly. Had tickets to see Roger Waters in August. Doink.

Since I work in healthcare, I'll be getting my first dose of vaccine soon. Assuming (praying) it works, I'll be back like The Terminator.

 

[MikeH92467]

I'm a Boise State football season ticket holder. By September, I most likely will have been vaccinated and hopefully enough of the gneral population will have been vaccinated to make it safe, so my answer is "yes", as long as things go relatively smoothly.

 

[1001001]

I'm a Boise State football season ticket holder. By September, I most likely will have been vaccinated and hopefully enough of the gneral population will have been vaccinated to make it safe, so my answer is "yes", as long as things go relatively smoothly.

Gotta love the Smurf Turf!

 

[MikeH92467]

Gotta love the Smurf Turf!

Oh yeah! It's odd, though. The turf is much less of a distraction when you're watching a game in person than on TV. Also something that falls under the "you hadda be there" category: the stadium only holds about 35,000, but it's freakin' LOUD!!! I sit in one of the end zones and we take illegal procedure and offsides penalties as a point of pride!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Before or after I'm vaccinated?

The moment I'm vaccinated, I start following the law to the letter, and no more.

 

[CaptainJonathanArcher]

Yes I will travel to South Philly & Chester!.

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[Oddish]

I rarely went to sporting events, but I just may attend once they resume. I'd rather die of Covid than spend the rest of my life cowering from it.

 

[BillJ]

I rarely went to sporting events, but I just may attend once they resume. I'd rather die of Covid than spend the rest of my life cowering from it.

Wow. I hear it is a pretty awful way to go.

 

[1001001]

I'd rather die of Covid than spend the rest of my life cowering from it.

Good luck with that.

 

[Morpheus 02]

I k ow what y'all are saying...but don't many of the movies we see go on the theme of Carpe Diem, and risking everything and NOT taking the safe way? Doesn't necessarily mean being reckless, but also not being held hostage for the rest of your life

 

[1001001]

I k ow what y'all are saying...but don't many of the movies we see go on the theme of Carpe Diem, and risking everything and NOT taking the safe way? Doesn't necessarily mean being reckless, but also not being held hostage for the rest of your life

I don't understand where the "rest of my life" stuff is coming from. Vaccines have started. With any luck we'll be in good shape for some baseball this summer, almost certainly football in the fall.

It's been one season of watching on TV instead of going to games. Hardly worth dying for, or getting our loved ones sick....

People are of course free to do what they want, so if someone wants to tempt fate and risk dying alone while gasping for air in order to show their autonomy and/or "bravery", I guess have at it.

It's the false dichotomy and histrionics around the subject that get to me.

 

[BillJ]

I k ow what y'all are saying...but don't many of the movies we see go on the theme of Carpe Diem, and risking everything and NOT taking the safe way?

Probably shouldn't be using movies as a roadmap to life.

Doesn't necessarily mean being reckless, but also not being held hostage for the rest of your life

I don't think anyone is going to be held hostage for the rest of their lives. As @1001001 pointed out, we now have vaccines coming onto the market.

 

[Oddish]

And that's my answer. I've never let Covid terrify me, not even while everyone else was freaking out about it. That doesn't mean I didn't wear a mask, because they're required, or social distance because I like a bit of personal space anyway. But I was never afraid. Certainly with vaccines coming out, I'm not going to fear it more... I'm just hoping everyone else stops living in fear of it. So much fear that we dismantled the strongest economy in US history, devastated the education of millions of kids, put millions of families on unemployment/welfare, and kicked off an epidemic of depression and isolation and probably suicide. I can't say it needs to end because we have done damage that we may never recover from. But we should at least TRY to move on.

 

[BillJ]

So much fear that we dismantled the strongest economy in US history...

60,000+ Americans have died already this month and many hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID patients. The economy will recover, just like it recovered after the Kansas Flu pandemic of 1918-1919. So many people fighting restrictions for the entirety of the situation also creates economic damage.

But we should at least TRY to move on.

We will move on when it’s appropriate to move on.

 

[1001001]

But I was never afraid.

You're supposed to be afraid of dangerous, deadly things.

Especially invisible ones.

 

[BillJ]

Especially invisible ones.

Only librul eggheads are afraid of invisible things.

 

[Oddish]

If I get Covid, I have a 99.9 percent chance of recovering.
If I can't pay my rent because my job is gone, my chances of dying of hypothermia from living in my car are probably higher.