what would ever happen if a professional sports team all died in a plane or car crash on the way to a game or something? If it happened right before the super bowl would the other team win by default?
The other team would win by default.
>>66252688
It's happened before an ncaa championship
>>66252688
happened to manchester united
well life goes on, im pretty sure most major sports leagues have rules for that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_draft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_involving_sports_teams
I guess the two most famous incidents were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superga_air_disaster (Torino FC when it was good)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster (ManUre)
No survivors?
>>66252688
>The Sverdlovsk air disaster of 5 January 1950 was an airplane crash where all 19 of those on board were killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur. The team was on board a twin-engined Lisunov Li-2 transport aircraft, a licensed Soviet-built version of the DC-3, heading to a match against the Dzerzhinets (Chelyabinsk) (Traktor Chelyabinsk) hockey club. Due to poor weather at Chelyabinsk, the flight diverted to Sverdlovsk. The crew attempted four approaches but during the fifth approach to Koltsovo Airport at Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union's Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the aircraft crashed near the airport in extremely adverse weather conditions involving a heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
>The crash occurred two and a half weeks after the 70th birthday of Joseph Stalin. According to a recent news article, Stalin's son Vasily Dzhugashvili, an Air Force commander of the Moscow Military District and the patron of the ice hockey team, was afraid of his father's possible reaction and of the crash investigation; he decided to recruit a new Air Force team in less than a day,[1] except for three original players (including the later IIHF Hall of Fame member Vsevolod Bobrov) who for various reasons were not on the crashed plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_air_disaster
>>66252688
Step off George.
CHI
Where do they bury the survivors?
>>66265041
>bury survivors
America
>>66252981
>tfw Torino still haven't recovered from Superga
>>66265160
they did win a scudetto afterwards, and placed in the top 4 several times in the 70's
both the team and the NT recovered in those years
>>66265633
Yeah, but if not for Superga they'd most likely have been one of the bigger teams in Serie A now.
>>66265684
yeah, likely but not sure
it's not like Bologna or Genoa's period of dominance translated into long term relevancy
still Superga is the biggest tragedy in the histroy of sports, we lost several GOATs in that crash
>>66265759
Would the Italian team today have been more attack oriented if not for Superga? Or were Italian teams just as defensive back then?
