My wife Susan and I have come up with a plan to replace at least some of the missing sports events.flyingpylon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:31 pm In local sporting news, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that the Indy 500 will take place on August 23rd with the stands at 50% capacity.
Tickets are all being reissued. Ticket holders with more than 2 tickets are being guaranteed 50% of their originally allocated seats. They can choose to request more than 50% with some or all possibly being moved to a nearby location, or they can skip this year's race and apply some or all of their tickets as credits for tickets to next year's race.
The 2016 race was attended by 350,000 fans, so 50% would be 175,000 but nobody expects the number to be quite that high (2016 was a special year, the 100th running). Still could be over 100,000 since the grandstands normally seat 235,000. Depends on how many people still want to attend.
I'm still not sure it's really going to happen.
How about having a league in which all the blue cities compete to see which one can have the highest total of carnage every weekend?
Among other statistics, they could have total injuries (hits) and deaths (runs).
Imagine a competition between the Chicago Shooters and the Minneapolis Looters!