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Yep,that didn't take long

I'll stir the pot a little.As for the possible player coming over and no I've not heard anything.I'm sure coach knows the rules and won't do anything to put DB at risk.I personally don't know the rules on if he can practice but we all know he has to be cleared to play one snap in a live game.As for the ticket sales compared to how Elizabethton is doing it.I can't imagine players, cheerleaders and band parents all getting 6 tickets and some of the important folks in Kingsport sitting at home.My personal opinion is if anyone should get to see the game,it should be the players families first .Same as if it was a special band performance like DB has every year. Then the band families should be first in line.

I'm thinking a lot of the people who have to make these calls, just simply are going by the numbers of positive cases every day and not by the percentage of those test that were negative.Correct me on this if I'm wrong.If you do say a 1000 test and 100 people have it, that's a 10% positive rate. If you do 10000 test and 660 people have it, that's a 6.6% rate.

Keeping somewhat with the topic for this post.The high school I went to and played sports at is Greeneville. My thoughts are with those athletes and their families .I love football and want to see the Devils get on the field this year . First however is I hope everyone in my old hometown is safe and gets through this. The same goes for every other school and town around the state.

Ok,Actually, I countered with this and should have stopped and made another post .. " We as parents never want to see young kids die from anything " Then I explained that I know politics twist everything, meaning that I understood how that article made the death of the young man look....Now the rest was just my opinion on how things are reported and in no way was I trying to compare this terrible event as being equal or the same as high blood pressure.Maybe I could have worded it differently or not.Bottom line is my blood pressure seems to be just fine for me to take the time and try to be civil when that does in fact go against my grain.

Well, I figured Trader was clairvoyant. Guess I was really meaning something that I wasn't aware of. Maybe his wife made him take out the trash and that's why he was talking about not barricading in a cave.IDK

Thanks for your feedback.I'll try not to twist anything around in my future post.

It would be DB's luck to have a team like those that coulda, woulda,shoulda and not be able to compete against the dominant teams for a totally different reason.

Ha, it crossed my mind to say something like that since we already have a thread on it.Then I thought someone would write that I was just being a wise . .Well,I should have wrote it because that's half the fun of being on here.

We as parents never want to see the young kids die from anything.I understand the politics of it and know it's twisted like a pretzel both ways.When you think about it, I'd say very few Americans do not have some type of preexisting factor . I do happen to know someone who wasn't at risk and died of it .I know folks will say ,I know a lot of people who died of many things as well and we have to move on.With covid and preexisting, the argument can go the other way just the same. You can have high blood pressure or a thousand other things and live to be 100 with medication.I guess that's why we all have different opinions.

Yeah,I seen them vote on that last night at the board meeting live .Just after one of the members ask if what they already had would work ok.

Ok , I've got a friend that I use to work with that was a bulldog years ago .They have had some really good teams over there.

I hate to be a know it all because I could get spell or gramer corrected on every post.Morristown east won it at the highest level " 3A " at the time during the first playoff year,1969.TH won it in 71-72 where they finished 2nd in the nation and then won the national title in 72.I think Jeff county won it in 87 but wouldn't swear.

Are you guys going to go virtual for the whole year .I was partially listening when someone was talking about different local systems last night.From what I heard there has been a big disconnect from the governor and many school systems .Much like how it's been with DC and the states.These local guys are put in a lose- lose situation because either way someone is going to be mad for not sending the kids back or having to possibly put people at risk because the system we have has some question marks.I heard some of Kingsports board and superintendent meeting last night and those guys were probably reading the same comments I was as they talked.Lot of pressure by the public.I'd probably be like Trump and start texting back nasty responses like I don't care who you vote for " loser" Better edit,I didn't hear you were going virtual all year,just wondered what they decided over there

Ha,sometimes sorry doesn't cut it Willie.I walked all the way around an aisle at Walmart here in Kingsport so I could go in the right direction for something I needed .What I wanted was in about the middle and It was clear when I started around. I be darned if a family like Barney was talking about at the same time I had gotten around,came right in the wrong direction that I had started from.They had atleast five or more kids running up and down the aisle and not a mask one .

Your in one part of the state .How many more of these stories are yet to be told.Anyone that doesn't believe it is possible hasn't been to Walmart on a Saturday afternoon.

Great looking field.This proves one thing. I'm truly able to sit around and watch grass grow,even if it's fake.

I figured that was the first thing on everyone's mind.From what I seen ,they said a student couldn't play that same sport.So I guess unless the guy from Virginia misspoke or I misunderstood,students could transfer and play a different sport but not football again.

Probably a great analogy . I'd take the way different people look at it another step.Some folks think those total of eight lug nuts will keep the wheels on for a million miles if your tires would last that long . On the other hand,some people think you will never get out of the parking lot before all four wheels fly off . I'd love for it to end up being more towards the million miles for the season, school and the good of everyone.The thing that concerns me is there are a lot of people working at the tire store who don't even know how to jack up a car, much less change a set of tires .

From some of the things I've seen on social media , it's going to be ugly in our area even if many of the kids do virtual instead of on campus.A lot of adults are still not doing what the president ask . How can we expect the kids to act any different.

I talked to BVD a few minutes ago,not so much about football but if they kick it off, I'm sure he will have a few things to say on here as well .

Hope all is well RW.Thats a valid point and I already know what band parents are going to say.I can imagine the DB band doing a show six feet apart.It would stretch from Kingsport to Neyland Stadium.

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No doubt getting an extra D1 player would help any team unless there was a chemistry problem or they are poorly coached.I remember Bearden having a player that was a game changer on special teams alone as well a threat on any play.This young man looks like a bigger version of Devrin,I don't know if he is as fast but he is special for sure.

First thing is if we even have a full season but yes I agree if I were to place odds and bet on those two games, Elizabethton would be atleast even going in against the Devils and Maryville right now would probably be atleast a two touchdown favorite on every team in east Tennessee.