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Spare a Thought for Aging Athletes During This Coronavirus Pandemic

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of Jon Wertheim's Point After video atop this page.

In these extraordinary times, sports news has never been less frequent, less relevant and, yet, more welcome.

We’ll take any drips we can get. And then the firehose got turned on for a brief moment when news came that TB signed with TB…. Tom Brady would leave the Patriots to sign with Tampa Bay.

Buccaneers fans raced to buy tickets, in hopes of watching a 43-year-old quarterback. May they get their wish.

While—there seems to be a need to say this every time—they are not at the top of the list of figures we should pity at this time, let’s pause and spare a thought for the aging athlete.