{"id":1208488,"date":"2022-01-11T15:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208488"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:20:48","slug":"to-college-football-fans-thank-you-for-being-unafraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-college-football-fans-thank-you-for-being-unafraid\/","title":{"rendered":"To College Football Fans: Thank You For Being Unafraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fto-college-football-fans-thank-you-for-being-unafraid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The college football season came to a fantastic end Monday night in Indianapolis, with Georgia defeating Alabama 33-18 to win the school\u2019s first national championship since 1980.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about this university? How about these fans? This is a special moment for the University of Georgia, a special moment for this team,\u201d Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said in his postgame interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about these fans\u201d is right. In fact, it\u2019s what made the 2021 college football season so incredibly special.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we prepared for the start of the regular season in August, we weren\u2019t sure what to expect. The pandemic-shortened 2020 season was a major downer. With little to no fans in the stands, everything that makes college football great \u2014 the passion and pageantry \u2014 was noticeably missing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And while crowds had started to return to basketball arenas toward the end of the 2021 NBA Playoffs, we still were unsure if stadiums with a capacity of 100,000+ would be filled to the brim as COVID-19 continued to rage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the question came with the loud roar of hundreds of thousands of college football fans across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In week one, stadiums from Blacksburg, VA, to Madison, WI, were rocking, dripping with decades of tradition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Days after the opening weekend, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on CNN with an appalled member of the media, to chastise the large crowds without a mask in sight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s smart,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/sports\/fauci-blasts-college-football-for-packing-stadiums-with-unmasked-fans-i-dont-think-its-smart\/\">said<\/a> of college football crowds. \u201cOutdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregate setting of people close together \u2013 you should be vaccinated. And when you do have congregate settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci said that in order to attend some large events during the fall, you would need to \u201cget vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could be stuck in outbreak mode and that\u2019s why I think what you\u2019re going to be seeing is\u2026a lot more local mandates,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are gonna be organizations, there are gonna be universities, there are gonna be colleges, there are gonna be sports events, travel events, where the rule is going to be if you wanna participate \u2013 you get vaccinated,\u201d Fauci added. \u201cIf not \u2013 sorry, you\u2019re not going to be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>College football fans everywhere responded with laughter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As many parts of the country continued to cower in fear in the face of COVID-19, fans of football in the South and the Midwest said \u201cenough,\u201d deciding that life needed to go on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a direct revolt against the establishment media and the ruling class. As Fauci and the Biden administration continued to hammer their message that we were heading for a winter of death, fans continued to pack into stadiums.&nbsp;It may not seem like much, but the small display of defiance was exactly what the country needed. Week in and week out, college fans packed stadiums, gathering as a community to celebrate college sports as we have for a hundred years. Mass illness and death never occurred from the millions of fans that gathered to watch football, flying directly in the face of the message from our countries leaders. Even as the Delta variant hit our shores, college football rolled on through the pandemic, showing the rest of us that it was ok to return to normalcy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We owe fans of the game a thank you for showing the world that despite challenges, life goes on. You can\u2019t protect yourself from all the dangers of the world, so you might as well get together with friends and family to enjoy the beautiful sport of college football.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to&nbsp;sports@dailywire.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college football season came to a fantastic end Monday night in Indianapolis, with Georgia defeating Alabama 33-18 to win the school\u2019s first national championship since 1980.\u00a0 \u201cHow about this university? How about these fans? 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