To state the obvious: The 2020 sports calendar is strange and getting stranger by the day. There are much more important things going on in the world, and while we all want sports to return, we’re getting a real lesson on the word essential, including where sports fit in. Plenty of our treasured sporting events will never happen (like March Madness) while others are being forced to take extreme measures to find a spot on the calendar (like The Masters in November).
The NFL had the benefit of time, with the COVID-19 crisis not being treated as a crisis until shortly after the Super Bowl wrapped up.