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Wiedmer: UTC, Chattanooga area’s high schools should call off fall football now

Staff photo by Troy Stolt / A Tyner Academy football player takes a break during practice last Monday, the first day TSSAA teams could hold full-contact practices in the 2020 preseason.
Staff photo by Troy Stolt / A Tyner Academy football player takes a break during practice last Monday, the first day TSSAA teams could hold full-contact practices in the 2020 preseason. Staff photo by Troy Stolt / A Tyner Academy football player takes a break during practice last Monday, the first day TSSAA teams could hold full-contact practices in the 2020 preseason.

Time to end it, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program.

Time to end this colossally stupid game of Russian roulette we football-addicted Southerners keep playing, and losing, against the coronavirus.

No football for the Southern Conference this fall.

No football for high schools in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and everywhere else where your words roll slowly and sweetly from your lips, as if bathed in molasses.

Puh-leeze.