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Boomer Esiason with the COVID-19 hot take
Boomer Esiason with the COVID-19 hot take

Boomer Esiason suggests CFB players including Clemson are getting COVID-19 on purpose


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WFAN radio host and former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason was promoting a conspiracy theory about COVID-19 with regards to sports on Monday.

Esiason strongly suggested that some college football teams are trying to win at all costs by getting their players positive with COVID-19 on purpose so they might be able to bounce back by the time the season gets kicked off.

"I gotta be really careful here because I don't want to say that this is an accusation," he said. "I just was thinking the other day about what is going on with the SEC teams down south. And Clemson included, who's obviously an ACC team. A lot of their players are coming down with COVID-19, oddly enough. So are they trying to herd immunity their teams?"

Esiason continued with his notion that coaches would stoop so low to get their players sick intentionally.

"So these guys can get sick now as opposed to getting sick during the college football season if, in fact, there is one," he said. "And I'm telling you right now I wouldn't put it past any of those guys down there. I think it's going on. I honestly … the numbers coming out of like Alabama, LSU, and Clemson, all these teams? It's too much of a coincidence. I don't think it's that crazy, either."

Actually, this is a bad take by Esiason.

There is likely no such conspiracy theory by teams but rather a COVID-19 pandemic still brewing in the United States that is very contagious, which has claimed the lives of a reported 128,615 people.

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SumGuard98
spacer Dang it!!!
GSCtiger®
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M2
spacer Looks like Boomer was sick last time he was in the valley
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spacer Fun day in the Valley, although any win against MD was fun!
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spacer ^^ Taladega Nights
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spacer Boomer- Accusation=What You said you IDIOT!***
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spacer Hey Boomer....Here's an Accusation For You
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spacer "Last I heard none of the Clemson players had health issues..."
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spacer Re: If true, makes me EVEN PROUDER of my team and Coach Swinney!
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spacer And our country is one person closer to collapse
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spacer Re: If true, makes me EVEN PROUDER of my team and Coach Swinney!
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spacer Don't believe Boomer has figured out a simple fact:
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spacer Moronic, insensitive, and attention seeking take.***
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spacer boomer already laying the ground work
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spacer Hypothetical Terrible Situation ---
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spacer Hmm Boomer
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spacer whats the chance Boomer Esiason has a little brain
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spacer Boomer isn't far off from the herd immunity thought
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spacer Someone get Lawrence Taylor
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spacer WTH does he know about anything
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spacer Boomer still has nightmares about 1983 and a #12 Clemson
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spacer Great thinking! Lets all get it and get ready for football!
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spacer Speaking as a Boomer . . . .
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spacer Unless he has some real evidence he needs to apologize
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spacer Boomer still hurt about 52-27 ?
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