Here we are. Finally. After a worldwide pandemic stopped the season after two games, two teams being eliminated from the tournament, and one canceled game; The Chicago Fire are stepping onto the pitch at 8 AM Tuesday morning to play the Seattle Sounders.
They shouldn’t be.
None of this should be happening. There were over fifteen thousand new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, and over twelve thousand on Sunday. Florida is the epicenter for the epidemic that is still persisting in the United States with no end in sight. To insist upon the continuation of this tournament that increasingly feeling like a circus sideshow is a moral failing.