Day 10 without sports:What do we do?

Many sports fans, including myself, are being robbed by this COVID-19 epidemic that has postponed our beloved sports.

Not only are we in a predicament with nothing to substitute the entertainment and joy we get from watching sports; the media—once again, including myself—is stuck with giving the people sports content with no sports playing.

Professional, collegiate, high school, the Perry Junior League; all levels of athletics are postponed or canceled right now.

All we can watch is the NFL free agency frenzy that’s going on. But with a lot of big moves already done—like Tom Brady leaving the Patriots and Deandre Hopkins getting traded for a half-eaten sandwich and stale bag of chips—there’s not too much else that can top that.

So, what do we do?

Fans of the sports world, what do we do when we get home and don’t want to watch the nonstop news talk about this pandemic? How will we function at home almost all day with no sports?

How will we briefly escape from reality with no teams to cheer for?

That’s still a struggle for me and I’m sure many others.

Watching old highlights and classic games is cool, but not the same when it’s the only thing to watch that’ll take you to the escape sports gives.

My heart especially hurts for the current athletes that can’t play right now, especially high schoolers. Playing at the high school level is probably the most fun athletes have in their playing careers, and sometimes it’s the last time they have.

There’s nothing like being with your team and playing the game you love around people you call family. Sports bring so much joy to people that an outsider just wouldn’t understand and will probably read this like, “there’s more important things at stake.”

But this is important, and essential to a true fan or athlete’s life. Once you love the game and don’t want to get away from it, ball becomes life.

Ball is life. Now it’s been taken away without warning and hasn’t given a sign of quickly returning.

So once again, I ask, what do we do?

Make mock drafts? Pick the NBA season award winners if the season were to cancel? Or do we talk about Tom Brady for the rest of March?

During this sports drought, I saw a Roy Hibbert highlight reel going around on Twitter the other day. Is that what we’ve come to?

How will we temporarily replace the mecca we call sports?

Not too many things bring people together like it. Now all of us are lost. It might be time to run to the store for a Nerf basketball goal, maybe a Wiffle ball too.

This time is tough for us right now.

The only things we can enjoy are social media memes and TikToks about surviving this world without sports.

When it comes to my job, making content about Houston County’s high school athletics with no athletics will be a new challenge. Hopefully you all will enjoy.

But, what about ESPN potentially running dry on news?

Besides NFL free agency, not a lot is transpiring around any league unless it’s updates about their cancellations and postponements.

If this pandemic lingers into April and May, ESPN could struggle with giving their audience news like we’re accustomed to.

And with no games or sports relevant news, what will we watch?

I don’t even want to imagine how brutally painful that’d be if it happened.

Good thing is, there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.

At least you’re not Houston Texans Head Coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien, getting battered by fans and analysts worldwide for possibly making the worst trade in NFL history.

Jokes aside, it’ll be a beautiful day when sports come back, and frankly when this whole pandemic is behind us.

This has affected way more than the world of sports, and it’ll be an immeasurable relief when it’s finally over.

But until then, we’re stuck in a sport-less reality, and the question still glares like a neon sign in an empty restaurant. What do we do?

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