Miami[]_[]Smoke
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Obviously they could play, it’s about playing safely. They could play without pads and helmets too. Saying it almost never serves as a valid excuse is stupid. If I owed u 1000 units to be delivered April 1st and I had to shut my plant down to protect my employees from COVID, that is a valid reason to not deliver on time because I think a generational global pandemic would make the cut. Other businesses staying open across the country doesn’t prove it’s not validForce majeure is nice in theory but in practice almost never serves as a valid excuse for performance. It’s so narrowly construed and courts are reluctant to dictate anything was truly impossible. I don’t anticipate courts will let a wave of COVID-19 cases result in a force majeure defense, but it is a hot topic.
If other conferences are playing football in this climate, the Big 10 and PAC-12 cannot assert force majeure as an excuse for their conferences. They could play, it’s not impossible, and the proof is with the other conferences.
as I said in another post, the schools are the conference and it was they who voted 12-2 not to play so the idea of a lawsuit Against the conference is moronic