Panelists answered the following question: Do you agree with the Department of Defense’s decision to hold the service academy football games during the federal government shutdown?
Bill Mifsud: “YES. Sports and Politics don’t mix. To cancel these games would have been a travesty. These young men have made a commitment to our country far after academics and athletics. These games provide morale for the Universities along with all their students.”
Jim West: “Of course they should hold the ‘games’ – the government shutdown is nothing more than a ‘game’ itself.”
Mary Zanger: “Yes. The government shutdown harms the civilian sector not the military sector. The military academies march on. Professors teach, students attend classes, coaches coach, games go on and wars continue.”
Ruth Erickson: “No, you don’t show favoritism for one sport. It’s all or nothing!”
Marty Richman: “No, but it does show the truth of the so-called shutdown, when both parties have squeezed all the votes they can out of this farce it will be over. There is no such thing as a real priority in the U.S. or even a principled stand; there are only political priorities, but we all knew that, anyway. It’s gotten so bad that everyone but the most rabid partisans on both sides just roll their eyes and go about their business. Maybe that’s why we are funding football games with so much borrowed money – business as usual.”
Nants Foley: “Totally disagree. Why does football rate over other sports which have been canceled? Congress, do your job!”
Richard Herrera: “YES. It’s an American tradition. Go Navy!”
