Alternative to fresh football: the Rick plan. For the description of "the Rick plan", let me take a hypothetical televised "event" involving UGA vs. UF. First, the network (CBS, etc.) builds a library of drives that each team has had against the other over the last, say 30, years. The libraries for each team are culled so as to have the same number of stalls, field goals, and touch downs. In other words, each time has equal statistics regarding points scored using the two culled libraries. Then the "event" begins with a simulated coin flip (or celebrity coin flip of some sort). The teams then take turns by randomly selecting from each culled library. The selected drives form the simulated game. An external to each clip, but cumulative score board is kept, which reflects total amount of time used in the drives, and a cumulative score. Will football fans be interested? YES, at least ones like me. The event includes the chance to see great athletics, it has an unknown outcome until the game is over (which is what kills replayed games, in my opinion) and it will be a chance to bring back former football heros in a way that is meaningful and enjoyable, and of course, you can gamble on it. Does anyone out there agree this might be a reasonable substitute if new football games cannot be played?

Okay, we all want college football as it has been in the past. No substitute could replicate fully the pleasure we get from football. But stay with me for a moment, what if we cannot have football in 2020? What is the best we can do? Is there anyway to build a football type entertainment show for television that would capture some of the fun of college football? Yes, there is such a plan, which I devised and call the "Rick plan" as I have always wanted a plan named after myself. Before you pooh pooh the plan, read and think about it. It can be tweaked in various ways but maybe it is a good starting point. I describe it next: For the description of "the Rick plan", let me take a hypothetical televised "event" involving UGA vs. UF. First, the network (CBS, etc.) builds a library of drives that each team has had against the other over the last, say 30, years. The libraries for each team are culled so as to have the same number of stalls, field goals, and touch downs. In other words, each time has equal statistics regarding points scored using the two culled libraries. Then the "event" begins with a simulated coin flip (or celebrity coin flip of some sort). The teams then take turns by randomly selecting from each culled library. The selected drives form the simulated game. An external to each clip, but cumulative score board is kept, which reflects total amount of time used in the drives, and a cumulative score. Will football fans be interested? YES, at least ones like me. The event includes the chance to see great athletics, it has an unknown outcome until the game is over (which is what kills replayed games, in my opinion) and it will be a chance to bring back former football heros in a way that is meaningful and enjoyable, and of course, you can gamble on it. Does anyone out there agree this might be a reasonable substitute if new football games cannot be played?