A part of me doesn’t even want to write about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the NFL, because it seems so immaterial in the broad scheme of things. But then I remember how significant it is that it could bring the biggest sports league in the world to nearly a standstill.
It’s also important because football, and all sports, is something that many people turn to as a means of escaping from both their day to day lives and from the problems of the world at large. There is no clearer example than this that you can never entirely escape, unfortunately.