And now the government shutdown has crept into the sports world.
The Defense Department announced Tuesday afternoon that all sports at the service academies are temporarily canceled.
The two big ones that statement affects is the sold-out Air Force-Navy game Saturday as well as Army's trip to Boston College. Before the Defense Department statement, Boston College vowed to do all it could to make Saturday's game happen.
Army-BC also in danger of being cancelled. BC AD Brad Bates: "Obviously our intention is to exhaust all possibilities to play the game"
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) October 1, 2013
The game Air Force-Navy game is cheduled for Saturday at 11:30 a.m., at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on CBS. Upper-class cadets are affected because they are considered military personneland therefore considered part of the government, The Capital Gazette reported.
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Air Force is 1-4 and Navy is 2-1. The game is the first of the season that goes toward the academies' quest for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. Army is 2-3 and was scheduled to play Boston College (2-2) at 1 p.m.
Air Force is scheduled to play Army on Nov. 2 and Army and Navy play in the regular-season finale Dec. 14.