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Blue Dawn

(892 posts)
1. Sad, but so true.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 04:55 AM
Sep 2021

This reminds me of last weekend's packed stadium of over 102,000 people watching our state college's first football game.

COVID is having a heyday at all of these mass gatherings.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
7. Certain value system there apparently?
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 08:08 AM
Sep 2021

Texas A&M football coach Jimbo Fisher gets four-year ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/texas...

Sep 01, 2021 · © Vasha Hunt, USA TODAY Sports Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher will earn $9 million in salary in 2022. The terms of the new contract include an

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts)
8. He was probably worth it for the money he brought in to College Station.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 08:17 AM
Sep 2021

Just a guess.

I have no idea what they're making at UVa or VT, but those might be big numbers too.

I think UVa's highest paid employee is the head of the Medical School.

And good morning.

MiHale

(9,715 posts)
4. Not an isolated example...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 07:05 AM
Sep 2021

About a hundred grand at “The Big House” in Ann Arbor Michigan yesterday.

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
6. Gimmee a "C"! Gimmee an "O"! Gimmee a "V"! Gimmee an "I"! Gimmee a "D"
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 07:44 AM
Sep 2021

Goooooooooooooooo COVID! (Repeat cheer 19 times and punctuate with a fit of coughing. Yay, team!)

Ah school spirit, teams cheered on by thousands of sweating, spittle-spraying supporters, hundreds of whom may well become actual “spirits” in the next few weeks!

Amazing how the big ass “universities” so clearly show that their concern is for money and not for learning. Amazing, but not surprising.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
11. Outdoors means NOTHING when you are packed in 6 inches from each other.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:16 AM
Sep 2021

There were millions of fans in circumstances like this yesterday and next weekend the number will increase because of the NFL beginning. Betcha less than half of them were vaccinated. SMH

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