Thanks to the partial government shutdown Tuesday, the fate of this weekend’s service academy football games are unknown.
According to NBC News, the upcoming football games could be skipped after the Defense Department temporarily suspended sports competition at the service academies. The games in jeopardy this weekend are Army at Boston College, and Air Force at Navy.
The U.S. Naval Academy said in a statement that it will make a decision Thursday at noon on whether the Midshipmen will play Saturday.
Air Force associate athletic director Troy Garnhart announced that travel for his sports teams was being suspended, including for Saturday's football game in Annapolis, Md.
Defense Department spokesman Bill Urban said lawyers are trying to determine if non-appropriated funds could be used by the Air Force team to travel to Navy and the Army team to travel to Boston College for the scheduled games, ESPN reports.
During the 1995 government shutdown, Army, Navy and Air Force all played football games at home.
A team not affected by the shutdown is the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. The club has been holding training camp at the Air Force Academy and have practiced this week as planned.