When the NFL announced last month that there would be no preseason games as a cautionary measure while it tries to launch a football season during the pandemic, I didn’t think much about it.
It was the proper move for sure, and the outcomes and plot twists of preseason games tend to draw an overreaction, even from Patriots fans and media members who should know better.
Besides, we have the Bruins and Celtics making playoff noise a couple of months later than usual, and the Red Sox are interesting in a tragicomic sort of way. I didn’t think there was much room or need for preseason football.