America wanted football during a pandemic. Needed football during a pandemic. Demanded football during a pandemic.
Well, this is what we get with football in a pandemic: a COVID-19 forest fire that keeps gathering oxygen. A Game of the Year on the brink. A cascade of cancellations, postponements and rearrangements.
This was expected and predicted by many; downplayed and disregarded by some. It was an absolute certainty that this season would face major logistical complications, and that certainty has spread everywhere now. It’s almost as if transporting a cohort of 150–200 people from one town to another on overnight trips for full-contact competition was asking for trouble.