Sports

Ready for another sports drought

As much as it pains me to say it, we appear to be headed toward another “dark” time—at least when it comes to professional sports.

Obviously, with everything going on in the world, I don’t want to be Mr. Doom and Gloom, but anyone reading this has to admit; after a rather lengthy stretch during which we enjoyed an absolute glut of televised sports, the next few months promise to be quite lacking in the options department.

In the early goings of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, sports fans looking for any sort of respite from depressing news were straight out of luck; as outbreak concerns began to shutter major American sports’ leagues, there were few places for viewers to turn.  Some opted to dive into sports documentaries, like the Michael Jordan-centric The Last Dance.  Others turned their gaze overseas to tune-in to the foreign sports leagues that had resumed, like the Korean Baseball Organization.  Sure, the KBO games were on late, but it wasn’t like most people had to get up early to head into the office.

But things changed over the summer.  Major League Baseball—which had never gotten its 2020 season off the ground—finally got going.  The NHL and
NBA put their postseason teams in bubbles and began the process of crowning a champion.  The NFL—always king of the autumn—came back as well and
we found ourselves with all four major sports humming along at the same time, a true anomaly that gave us home-bound sports fanatics a smorgasbord of things to watch each night.

But by the end of this week, with the Dodgers crowned World Series Champions, the NHL and NBA will be looking toward early 2021 returns, and the only thing we’ll have to watch is football, something that seems less than appealing if you happen to root for the Jets or the Giants.

On the bright side, football’s not a once-a-week, Sunday, event anymore.  Between Thursday Night Football, Monday Night Football and the COVID-related
Tuesday games we’ve seen this year, the true sports devotee will be able to stretch out the meager rations a bit.  Plus, as things continue to open up, we are no longer—for the most part—stuck in our living rooms with only the television as company anymore.

So we’ll just have to see what the next few months brings; we may not be able to feast on pro sports, but I’m sure we’ll manage to get by.

I just hope that by this time next year, this virus and our crazy lives, sports and otherwise, will be back to normal.
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