Players are reporting to NFL training camps across the country, the New York Giants included. In any other year the opening of NFL camps and the approach of preseason games would dominate sports media landscape. After all, if baseball is America’s pastime, then football is America’s obsession.
But the story of the moment isn’t baseball or football, but the COVID-19 pandemic. Really, it’s the same story that has either dominated the news cycle since February or served as a backdrop to every other headline. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to understate just how profound our lives have been disrupted by the virus.