As I put the finishing touches on my final story from the MLS is Back Tournament in the wee hours of Sunday morning, a realization washed over me. Alone in a hotel room that I’d called home for the previous 24 days, I began to reflect on the experience in Orlando.
It had been anything but normal, even so much as we’ve come to define “normal” since our lives were flipped upside down in mid-March. Along with 44 other members of the New England Revolution delegation, I had spent the better part of a month isolated at a (gorgeous) resort, wearing masks and credentials at all times, served meals from behind Plexiglass, and being tested for COVID-19 almost daily.