Should sporting events be postponed because of the war?

IndyModeOCHW · 20 Mar 2003 at 18:50

Should sporting events be postponed because of the war?

Here in the U.S. they have been considering postponing the annual 'March Madness' NCAA Basketball tourny 'out of respect' for those in the war. Personally I think the network who is supposed to show it on TV is afraid of losing viewers to other stations covereing the war, so they and their advertisers are pressuring the NCAA to postpone it.

Is it 'disrespectful' to go about business as usual? Should they change sporting events in any way to reflect the more 'somber' mood of the world? What do you think?

dirtydog · 20 Mar 2003 at 18:52

I don't think the war should make us postpone sporting events, no.. we should go on as normally as possible.

Don't often see you in here btw IndyMode

[ASSE]Hinchy · 20 Mar 2003 at 18:57

Course not. Everything should carry on as normal. Sporting events are a welcome distraction from what is going on outside that event for some people so I see no reason why they should be postponed personally

dirtydog · 20 Mar 2003 at 18:58

Originally posted by [ASSE]Hinchy
Course not. Everything should carry on as normal. Sporting events are a welcome distraction from what is going on outside that event for some people so I see no reason why they should be postponed personally

We agree on the war!

Well sort of

IndyModeOCHW · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:05

Originally posted by dirtydog
I don't think the war should make us postpone sporting events, no.. we should go on as normally as possible.

Don't often see you in here btw IndyMode

Well, most of the talk in here is about football, and I don't get into that much. I am much more of a fan of College and pro basketball, and Ice hockey

I agree that we should go on as normally as possible.

But because of the finances involved - it looks like that might not happen over here. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Scream · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:06

No way should the war stop sporting events. If the british soldiers found out that the premiership games were cancelled, they would come back and bomb the FA.

Hearing the result of a game if it goes the soldiers way can help with their morale. It also gives them something to chat about i.e if one of their buddies teams gets hammered etc.

So no way it should be stopped.

[ASSE]Hinchy · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:08

Originally posted by dirtydog
We agree on the war!

Well sort of

LOL

It's enough hehe. I think its as close as we are going to get after reading each other's posts in the other threads hehe.

Kanes · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:16

Originally posted by IndyModeOCHW
Well, most of the talk in here is about football, and I don't get into that much. I am much more of a fan of College and pro basketball, and Ice hockey

firstly, THANK YOU FOR REALISING IT'S FOOTBALL! NOT SOCCER!

secondly, we have a kind of basketball over here, it's called netball, we let the girls play it

IndyModeOCHW · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:25

Originally posted by Kanes
firstly, THANK YOU FOR REALISING IT'S FOOTBALL! NOT SOCCER!

I've been around UK/European forums enough to know to differentiate the two. One is Football and the other is American Football.

Regular football bores me, but I've seen it played indoors and it is much more interesting, it reminds me of Ice hockey on grass

daz · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:45

Originally posted by Scream
No way should the war stop sporting events. If the british soldiers found out that the premiership games were cancelled, they would come back and bomb the FA.

Hearing the result of a game if it goes the soldiers way can help with their morale. It also gives them something to chat about i.e if one of their buddies teams gets hammered etc.

So no way it should be stopped.

:werd:

Cemetery · 20 Mar 2003 at 19:46

No televised occassions should not be stopped due to the war & tbh I agree that that particular station is weary of loosing cash :rolleyes:

The only things which will have to be looked at more carefully are the events which are scheduled to take place near the area of Iraq.

http://www.ananova.com/sport/story/sm_761515.html

IndyModeOCHW · 21 Mar 2003 at 18:00

Originally posted by Cemetery
No televised occassions should not be stopped due to the war & tbh I agree that that particular station is weary of loosing cash

The only things which will have to be looked at more carefully are the events which are scheduled to take place near the area of Iraq.

http://www.ananova.com/sport/story/sm_761515.html

CBS is showing the NCAA games as planned thank goodness!

I know that almost all the troops from Indiana would have been quite peeved if they were to hear that the IU/IUPUI/Purdue/Butler/Notre Dame games had been cancelled! For most people from Indiana (like myself) basketball is a religion.

Unfortunatly Kentucky is beating up on IUPUI right now, 32 to 16 halfway thru the first quarter

Gawd I hate Kentucky....