Flim fam biff bam, H1N1 by damn!

[ScribePharisee]

Found this but Fox News just reported Snead and others have the H1N1....

Does the NCAA invoke the Hurricane rule here and postpone games?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7mUbJSvkMNlQMeUrII_EIhJX2gAD9AJDS2O0

 

[Pancamo]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

Why should the games get postponed?

 

[mustangj17]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

Found this but Fox News just reported Snead and others have the H1N1....

Does the NCAA invoke the Hurricane rule here and postpone games?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7mUbJSvkMNlQMeUrII_EIhJX2gAD9AJDS2O0

But what if Sneed gets it? Could we be infected?

 

[Smash Williams]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

Considering H1N1 is very contagious but nowhere near as dangerous as people originally feared (unless you have an underlying medical condition), they should treat athletes who get it like they would any other athletes with a different variety of flu - tell them to stay home but go about the rest of team activities as normal.

 

[Batman]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

The article in the link didn't say it was H1N1, just "flu-like symptoms." You can maybe connect the dots but it's not certain its swine flu.
Either way, Ole Miss has a bye this week and plays Division I-AA Southeastern Louisiana next week. They should be fine for now, football-wise.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

Regular flu's not running around yet, Batman. It doesn't hit until later in the year.

Mandate from the feds is: If you have a flu right now, go ahead and assume it's H1N1.

 

[KG]

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I never went to the doctor, but I think that H1N1 may be what I've had. I've had flu-like symptoms for about a week, but it never got so bad that I couldn't function, so I never bothered with going to the doctor.

 

[Crash]

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I have it right now. It blows. Doc told me exactly what OTR said. She also gave me a prescription but said that the only people who really need the drugs are people who have other medical conditions. She said the human body, after the initial shock, shouldn't have much trouble fending off H1N1 unless it's busy fighting other stuff too.

They shouldn't cancel any games for what I've had. It's been five days. The first four sucked, and today it feels like I have a simple head cold. I'm sure by tomorrow I'll be fine, if only a little weak because I haven't eaten much in the last four days. It's not serious enough to cancel football games.

 

[User 1019]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

It's "flim flam, bim bam."

If you're gonna poke fun, get it right.

 

[albert77]

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It's "flim flam, bim bam."

If you're gonna poke fun, get it right.

"Who the hell are WE ..."

 

[Batman]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

I have it right now. It blows. Doc told me exactly what OTR said. She also gave me a prescription but said that the only people who really need the drugs are people who have other medical conditions. She said the human body, after the initial shock, shouldn't have much trouble fending off H1N1 unless it's busy fighting other stuff too.

They shouldn't cancel any games for what I've had. It's been five days. The first four sucked, and today it feels like I have a simple head cold. I'm sure by tomorrow I'll be fine, if only a little weak because I haven't eaten much in the last four days. It's not serious enough to cancel football games.

Well, if half your team has it and the other team is worried about half ITS team getting it, not to mention all those flu germs floating around among 60,000 people, there might be some concern there.
Plus, say this thing lingers at Ole Miss for a couple weeks. Would you rather postpone a meaningless game against Southeastern Louisiana or be at half strength for a conference game against South Carolina?

And OTR, I hadn't heard that about assuming it's H1N1. I stand corrected.

 

[OnTheRiver]

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And OTR, I hadn't heard that about assuming it's H1N1. I stand corrected.

Ain't no sweat, man.

My mom's a nurse. We talked about it tonight some more. She said Tamiflu works on H1N1 same as it does the other flu -- get it in you early in the sickness, and it'll have an effect. Day 3 or later, and you might as well keep your money and suffer for a day or 3 more, because the Tamiflu won't do ****.

 

[Crash]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

I have it right now. It blows. Doc told me exactly what OTR said. She also gave me a prescription but said that the only people who really need the drugs are people who have other medical conditions. She said the human body, after the initial shock, shouldn't have much trouble fending off H1N1 unless it's busy fighting other stuff too.

They shouldn't cancel any games for what I've had. It's been five days. The first four sucked, and today it feels like I have a simple head cold. I'm sure by tomorrow I'll be fine, if only a little weak because I haven't eaten much in the last four days. It's not serious enough to cancel football games.

Well, if half your team has it and the other team is worried about half ITS team getting it, not to mention all those flu germs floating around among 60,000 people, there might be some concern there.
Plus, say this thing lingers at Ole Miss for a couple weeks. Would you rather postpone a meaningless game against Southeastern Louisiana or be at half strength for a conference game against South Carolina?

And OTR, I hadn't heard that about assuming it's H1N1. I stand corrected.

I took it as Scribe asking if the NCAA should postpone the game. I don't think the NCAA is going to postpone a game for a dozen players, but I could be wrong.

Obviously, Ole Miss needs to take necessary precautions, though. I didn't mean to imply that this should be taken lightly at all. It shouldn't. It's pure hell.

 

[Football_Bat]

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I thought it was Flin Flon slippity slap.

 

[John]

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A few guys on the team I cover have been out most of the week with flu-like symptoms, and the trainers are basically assuming they have H1N1 even though there hasn't been a positive test. That means they aren't going to class and are being isolated from their teammates, roommates and other students.

 

[Batman]

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Just a hypothetical here, and it involves a LOT of ifs so please bear with me.
Say Ole Miss gets to next Tuesday and a lot of its players are still sick. Out of 80-odd players, let's say 30 or 40 have the flu (including a bunch of starters) and the team is in no shape to prepare or play a football game on Saturday against Southeastern Louisiana. It's an FCS school, there's a conference game the following week ... there's just more reasons not to play than there are TO play.
So Ole Miss decides to cancel the game. More than likely, Southeastern wouldn't press the issue. But would it go in the books as a forfeit? Ole Miss doesn't have another bye week and other than money there's no reason to make it up.
If it does go as a forfeit, and Ole Miss ends up winning 10, 11 or 12 games, how would that affect their BCS ranking? Would it be held against them? Would voters hold that loss against them?

 

[Armchair_QB]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

Just a hypothetical here, and it involves a LOT of ifs so please bear with me.
Say Ole Miss gets to next Tuesday and a lot of its players are still sick. Out of 80-odd players, let's say 30 or 40 have the flu (including a bunch of starters) and the team is in no shape to prepare or play a football game on Saturday against Southeastern Louisiana. It's an FCS school, there's a conference game the following week ... there's just more reasons not to play than there are TO play.
So Ole Miss decides to cancel the game. More than likely, Southeastern wouldn't press the issue. But would it go in the books as a forfeit? Ole Miss doesn't have another bye week and other than money there's no reason to make it up.
If it does go as a forfeit, and Ole Miss ends up winning 10, 11 or 12 games, how would that affect their BCS ranking? Would it be held against them? Would voters hold that loss against them?

It would go down as a cancelled game, not a forfeit.

 

[pressboxer]

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One of our city high schools had to cancel volleyball last Friday because several players were sick, two of them confirmed with H1N1. That school's football team also had several players ailing, but they were all expected to suit up. Then the football game was canceled because of lightning. The whole damn campus could have taken the day off and nothing would have changed.

 

[ScribePharisee]

Re: Riff ram biff bam H1N1 by damn!

It's "flim flam, bim bam."

If you're gonna poke fun, get it right.

Flim (phlegm) and H1N1 was too much in one thread. So I avoided it.

 

[Karl Hungus]

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More than likely, Southeastern wouldn't press the issue.

Sure they would. It's a guarantee game: surely, they won't get nearly as much money if Ole Miss backs out on the game. I would have to think a Louisiana directional school needs the money, just like most FCS programs.

Not to mention, the travel arrangements that SE Louisiana made go right down the drain. So yeah, it's a *****.