re: How realistic is the idea of playing a game to a 1/4 capacity stadium?

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Seriously? Have you ever been to a spring game?

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Plenty and with crowds of 40-45k all seated on one half of the stadium

We are talking 20k less than that number and with them in assigned seats around the stadium (including club suites where most people aren’t going to drift far from) not first come first serve. And we aren’t talking about telling people they can’t get up to pee or get food once they’re seated, just don’t sit close to other people. It’s not as difficult to enforce as you’d think and most people aren’t just going to say frick it and start massing together for the hell of it.

There are also nets at baseball games and constant reminders Over the PA to be alert for foul balls. The language on a ticket doesn’t absolve the venue of responsibility, proper precautions still have to be take .

If schools also take proper precautions according to their state health departments which are going to say use masks, take temps, maintain distancing, then whatever language they use on tickets will hold up. Inviting the general public to a mass gathering during a pandemic means exhibiting that you took all necessary precautions and if someone still got sick THEN it was on them for incurring the risk of attendance. You can’t just put it on fans and invite 90k to show up and think you’re legally safe.

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big questions will have to be answered when one or more players test positive during a season (

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I honestly don't see why we need to freak out if a player tests positive.

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honestly don't see why we need to freak out if a player tests positive.

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No reason to if it’s just one guy beyond the impact of losing a player for a couple of weeks. I guess what I should’ve been more clear about is if 3-4 guys all get it at once during the season. At that point, you’ve got an outbreak issue that has to be resolved Campus wide (assuming that campus has players attending in person classes with other students) and your team performance is going to take a hit.

Mine too but some people wearing masks is better than nothing, as are the 80+ degree temps and humidity all the rain down here has brought.

If you look at that Champions League game in Italy that was thought to be a huge outbreak, it makes sense to just limit that potential.

Whether it actually does anything, who knows, it might just be safety theater. I still see the desire to limit it.

This situation is so absurd. We know from testing that the case mortality rate for COVID in the US is similar to past flu epidemics. VERY few young people die from COVID. 85% who die have a comorbidity. We also know that in the US, a person who dies while COVID poz is considered a death from COVID, even if the death is really due to something like homicide.

Let fans in the stadiums at their own risk. I will be there if I can get in. Are we supposed to do this every time some new bug is on the scene? No way to live.

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There are also nets at baseball games and constant reminders Over the PA to be alert for foul balls. The language on a ticket doesn’t absolve the venue of responsibility, proper precautions still have to be take .

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The last time you sat behind the 3B dugout at an MLB game with a net in front of your face was never.

Standard MLB injury waiver and release from liability you accept when you buy a ticket. The same can easily be reworded to fit the current situation and absolve universities, concert promoters, etc.:

"Holder, on behalf of himself/herself and Minor(s), acknowledges and assumes all risks and dangers associated with Holder and/or Minor(s): (i) being a spectator before, during, and after a baseball game (including all warm-ups, practices, pre-game, post-game and between-inning activities, promotions and competitions), and (ii) attending, observing or participating in the Game, in each case, whether any such risk or danger occurs prior to, during or subsequent thereto, including specifically (but not exclusively) the danger of being injured by thrown bats; bat fragments; thrown or batted balls; thrown, dropped, or launched items; projectiles; persons; animals; other hazards or distractions; and any incidents or accidents associated with crowds of people or the negligence or misconduct of other spectators. " St. Louis Cardinals

Actually, you don't realize it, but you made my point for me. The threat of getting a fractured cheekbone at an MLB game is very real. As you point out, the stadium warns fans, has a net behind home plate, etc. Yet they still allow fans to sit packed into some of the most dangerous areas of the stadium...behind the dugouts and down the baselines....with absolutely zero protection. They don't keep those dangerous, exposed seats empty.

In other words, they let the fans assume responsibility for their own safety...as the SEC ultimately will do.

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Actually, you don't realize it, but you made my point for me. The threat of getting a fractured cheekbone at an MLB game is very real. As you point out, the stadium warns fans, has a net behind home plate, etc. Yet they still allow fans to sit packed into some of the most dangerous areas of the stadium...behind the dugouts and down the baselines....with absolutely zero protection. They don't keep those dangerous, exposed seats empty.

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False equivalence. You don’t take that fractured cheekbone from a foul ball home and spread it to others.

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False equivalence. You don’t take that fractured cheekbone from a foul ball home and spread it to others.

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It doesnt matter. You can take any virus home from a stadium and spread it to others. Covid simply isnt deadly enough to take such measures as playing in empty stadiums. Its not just a cosmetic issue, thousands of people rely on the business brought in from football game attendance. At a mortality rate of .26% and that .26% being 99% elderly its not even worth entertaining the idea of limiting stadium capacity.