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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-12-2020 09:19 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: ......we can find a time to vote and not have to cancel a college football game because of it.
Have you lost your mind MaddDawgz? The vast majority of people can't stand the feckless MAC administration handcuffing everyone with the MACtion contract and now you're opposed to a way to put one limit on the deal everyone hates? WTF?
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-13-2020 09:51 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: They should replace the hot dog stands with voting booths, but then they might run out of ballots.
Well done sir!
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-14-2020 02:51 PM)NIU1981 Wrote: (06-13-2020 09:51 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: They should replace the hot dog stands with voting booths, but then they might run out of ballots.
Well done sir!
Or wait two hours.
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06-14-2020 03:22 PM |
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MaddDawgz02
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-14-2020 01:05 PM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-12-2020 09:19 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: we can find a time to vote and not have to cancel a college football game because of it.
I think many working single mothers trying to make ends meet would disagree that she should have to ask her boss if she can take time off (as the company's only receptionist) to vote, or pay for a baby sitter $30-$40 and take a bus to her polling place to wait in line for an hour or more so that 358,000 people can watch CMU and Miami of Ohio play a football game.
Are you honestly saying that if you could make the decision, you would make it harder for Americans to vote so you can watch a MAC football game?
Instead of "we can find the time to vote," why not, "we can find the time to watch a recording of a football game in the next few days" or "we can reschedule one college football game.
And while you might think making it easier to vote won't affect national elections, it sure would local elections.
I'm saying, let Americans make choices , let Americans have freedom to do what they want to do
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
Request an absentee ballot.
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MaddDawgz02
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2020 01:45 AM by MaddDawgz02.)
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
I do not think NIU should play on election night, lest we become the bane of this country. Virtually everyone in the Pacific time zone will be riveted to their TVs watching the excitement of the game rather than voting. Even though they have the rest of the day to vote, you can't blame them for getting ready for the game, shopping for munchies and alcohol, setting up tailgates in their mansion cul-de-sacs, etc. Because the left coast won't vote, Trump will be re-elected, and the left coasters will protest that it was a set-up and America was not fair to them because NIU played that night. We'll start seeing protests and looting, and signs everywhere that say, "Left Coast Lives Matter!" Los Angeles will be burned down, San Franciscans will paint the Golden Gate Bridge blood red (or perhaps a multi-colored rainbow), and Seattle will ban all police from their city limits while posting signs on the stores, "Please loot here!" I don't know about you, but I would certainly NOT want NIU responsible for all this!
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
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06-15-2020 10:02 AM |
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MaddDawgz02
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-15-2020 10:02 AM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
Its all just BS, sports and politics should be independent, its always been that way, until now. Gee I wonder why. We all know why. Look, I know there is not going to be a college football season anyway, this whole COVID joke is going to be going on at least through the election, and then the media wont cover it anymore. It just pains me that elite politicians and media can ruin our daily lives even if we choose to not partake in the political process. We can't avoid being colateral damage in this political fight and it should not be that way
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2020 10:28 AM by MaddDawgz02.)
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06-15-2020 10:27 AM |
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Big Red
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-15-2020 10:27 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:02 AM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
Its all just BS, sports and politics should be independent, its always been that way, until now. Gee I wonder why. We all know why. Look, I know there is not going to be a college football season anyway, this whole COVID joke is going to be going on at least through the election, and then the media wont cover it anymore. It just pains me that elite politicians and media can ruin our daily lives even if we choose to not partake in the political process. We can't avoid being colateral damage in this political fight and it should not be that way
You simply cannot help yourself, can you?
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06-15-2020 10:33 AM |
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-14-2020 02:35 PM)uiniu57 Wrote: (06-12-2020 09:19 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: ......we can find a time to vote and not have to cancel a college football game because of it.
Have you lost your mind MaddDawgz? The vast majority of people can't stand the feckless MAC administration handcuffing everyone with the MACtion contract and now you're opposed to a way to put one limit on the deal everyone hates? WTF?
Stop quoting MD.
The board thanks you.
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06-15-2020 10:36 AM |
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MaddDawgz02
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-15-2020 10:33 AM)Big Red Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:27 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:02 AM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
Its all just BS, sports and politics should be independent, its always been that way, until now. Gee I wonder why. We all know why. Look, I know there is not going to be a college football season anyway, this whole COVID joke is going to be going on at least through the election, and then the media wont cover it anymore. It just pains me that elite politicians and media can ruin our daily lives even if we choose to not partake in the political process. We can't avoid being colateral damage in this political fight and it should not be that way
You simply cannot help yourself, can you?
I can yes, this is a political thread so it's appropriate. Just responding to the political talk earlier
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06-15-2020 10:39 AM |
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-15-2020 10:39 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:33 AM)Big Red Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:27 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:02 AM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
Its all just BS, sports and politics should be independent, its always been that way, until now. Gee I wonder why. We all know why. Look, I know there is not going to be a college football season anyway, this whole COVID joke is going to be going on at least through the election, and then the media wont cover it anymore. It just pains me that elite politicians and media can ruin our daily lives even if we choose to not partake in the political process. We can't avoid being colateral damage in this political fight and it should not be that way
You simply cannot help yourself, can you?
I can yes, this is a political thread so it's appropriate. Just responding to the political talk earlier
Is it really though? Or is it that you see political conspiracies in everything you look at?
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
I thought the purpose of this article is that the NCAA is discriminating against the MAC and it's members! By not allowing the MAC to benefit from exclusive Tuesday night games (in most likely freezing weather) they are impacting MAC revenue and viewer ratings. This policy is especially discriminatory towards NIU and Buffalo which had the only game that night.
Dr. Jon Steinbrecher and the entire MAC staff need to stand up to the NCAA and demand the MAC's huddled masses yearning to breathe free, right to have games in snow or rain, in heat or gloom of night, wherever and whenever they want. They need to insure and promote the general welfare of MAC football while securing the blessings of liberty. Don't follow the wretched refuse of the NCAA!
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RE: NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
(06-15-2020 10:39 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:33 AM)Big Red Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:27 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (06-15-2020 10:02 AM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote: (06-14-2020 11:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: Political fights need to stay in political arenas and stop influencing all aspects of our lives. Not everyone is interested in activism and political agendas. There is such a desire to shape political opinion on people, that that power that be must now interfere with all aspects of our lives to get us to pay attention. It is sickening
Making it easier to vote isn't a "political fight" or "agenda" due to the fact that all parties are represented. Anyone who thinks that extending voter hours, adding more polling places, moving voting to a Saturday or cancelling sporting events on election day to encourage more voting is a gubmint plot to control the masses has some serious paranoia, anger and hate.
A university rescheduling a football game on election day to send a message that the schools supports Americans voting is not a "political fight." Encouraging voting (for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc.) is not an "agenda" anymore than passing a law that provides a tax break for the purchase of energy efficient windows and doors, or offering PELL grants to college students, or running free ads for animal shelters, or providing police traffic cops at a Boy Scout parade is a "political agenda." Those generic actions make the U.S. a better place to live. They don't benefit any political party over another.
Do you support the government's political agenda of shutting down the government on one sect's religious holiday (Christmas) but not others?
NIU is not forcing or coercing anyone to vote. They are simply saying, here are several ways we want to help make it easier for folks to vote. People who work and can't take time off to vote during the day and have tickets for a nighttime football game probably won't be able to vote in between and not miss part of the game.
What did your father do to you?
Its all just BS, sports and politics should be independent, its always been that way, until now. Gee I wonder why. We all know why. Look, I know there is not going to be a college football season anyway, this whole COVID joke is going to be going on at least through the election, and then the media wont cover it anymore. It just pains me that elite politicians and media can ruin our daily lives even if we choose to not partake in the political process. We can't avoid being colateral damage in this political fight and it should not be that way
You simply cannot help yourself, can you?
I can yes, this is a political thread so it's appropriate. Just responding to the political talk earlier
Really? The first post in this thread that even remotely touched on politics was your post of 6/12. The absolute stupidity of your continued thread high hacking continues.
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NCAA recommends no sports on election day, NIU football has a MAC game scheduled
I'm locking this thread, it's devolved into name-calling and political party-bashing.
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