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Cancel Football
Read the news. Just read it.
Every page has a sports headline relating to college football or the NFL, and how literally every person who watches sports has probably been affected by a high volume of cancelled football games. Maryland just had a COVID spike so they had to cancel their game against Michigan State this past Saturday; Wisconsin has only played 3 games this season (of a possible 5) and their game vs Minnesota this week has been cancelled due to Minnesota’s Coronavirus spike; the SEC has been rocked with COVID cases; college football hit 100 cancelled or postponed games before the Big Ten or Pac-12 even began their games. The NFL, meanwhile, is barely trudging on and limping to avoid teams not playing their full sixteen-game schedules.
The football season was most worrisome after seeing the MLB fight the virus. Eventually, baseball sought the end of the season with the Los Angeles Dodgers finally winning the World Series in October, and my New York Mets offering me another disappointing season, except for the fact that they finally have an owner with more than three brain cells.
And sure, I have no allegiance to this football season either. A Michigan native, Jim Harbaugh is actively throwing away his reputation as a coach, or legacy in the sport. How ironic, Jim, after fighting tooth and nail for college football to be played this fall, and now you…
