Give yourselves a round of applause sports fans. On Saturday, you will have officially made it one month without sports.
When the Jazz and Thunder left the court on Wednesday, March 11th prior to tip off we had a pretty good idea that we wouldn’t be seeing any more sports for a while. Sure you had your random spring training games and rec-league events that had yet to be cancelled, but this was the big one.
In the days leading up to Jazz – Thunder we had seen the NCAA shut down all College Basketball tournaments. The school I covered for my Sports Journalism class had suspended all operations long before that. This was the game that I can vividly remember thinking, “That’s it, they’re about to cancel everything.” . . . and they did.
So since that weird pre game moment where players were told to leave the court we’ve been holding our breath for good news. News that will finally put an end to this defining moment in our lives, not just because sports are missing but because the world has essentially been shut down for a month.
We’ve gotten plenty of “news” out of this strange time. Journalists, Commissioners and TV personalities seem to be contradicting each other all the time. Adam Schefter, who is plugged in with anything and anyone in football tweeted this.
That was followed by College Football Analyst Kirk Herbstreit saying this in an interview on ESPN radio, “I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football. I’ll be so surprised if that happens, Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a (coronavirus) vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it.”
Now neither one of these men are medical doctors but they are about as plugged in as you can be, that is one of the more frustrating things about this for not only sports fans but for everyone. When the hell are we going to get some news that all lines up?
To be honest with you, we probably aren’t. That is the trouble with the unknown, until something definitive happens, people are going to talk and rumors are going to swirl.
So instead of being swallowed up by those rumors I would like to look at the positives. We’re all getting along! (for the most part) I have never, in my life, seen Twitter so jovial. People are actually pleasant.
So for the last bit of . . . whatever this was I want to go through my three favorite Twitter trends since sports stopped.
#3 – Pick 3
These are pretty fun, the gist is you put up 9 blocks of something and you can only pick three. Here are some of my favorites.
#2 – Rudy Gobert Slander
As we all know Rudy Gobert did this.
Since then he has been public enemy #1 of basketball twitter. I have enjoyed it very much.
#1 – TIGER KING
One of my favorite documentaries ever.
In conclusion. Sports are dead but Tiger King is awesome.
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